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The Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary is located along the tidal Patuxent River in southern Maryland, United States. It was established in 1985 and is operated by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks. It includes more than 1,700 acres (6.9 km 2) of tidal freshwater wetlands, forests, meadows and fields.
The state of New Jersey in the United States owns and administers over 354,000 acres (1,430 km 2) of land designated as "Wildlife Management Areas" (abbreviated as "WMA") throughout the state. These areas are managed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, an agency in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. [1]
Many of those ecosystems are protected by some form of parkland, on the state and local levels. The most notable of which include Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Merkle Wetlands Sanctuary in the Edgar A. Merkle Wildlife Refuge, [2] [3] and Patuxent River Park, along with many more. Farther north, there is the 20 square mile Patuxent Research Refuge ...
The Mullica River is a 50.6-mile-long (81.4 km) [1] river in southern New Jersey in the United States.The Mullica was once known as the Little Egg Harbor River.. The river provides one of the principal drainages into the Atlantic Ocean of the extensive Pinelands.
Jug Bay and Otter Point Creek were designated in 1990. The purpose of the 6,249 acres (25.29 km 2 ) Maryland Reserve, managed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, is to manage protected estuarine areas as natural field laboratories and to develop and implement a coordinated program of research, monitoring, education and volunteer ...
Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary: Bristol: Anne Arundel: Central: Features the McCann Wetlands Study Center with displays about the wetlands, estuaries and the Patuxent River watershed, operated by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks Locust Grove Nature Center: Bethesda: Montgomery: Capital
Great Bay is located in southern New Jersey's Atlantic Coastal Plain in Ocean and Atlantic Counties, about ten miles (16 km) north of Atlantic City and is about 5.5 miles (8.85 km) northwest of Brigantine, and 5.5 miles southwest of Beach Haven.
Pages in category "Wetlands of New Jersey" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Great Bay (New Jersey) Great Swamp National Wildlife ...