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Lord Stirling Park is a 925/950 acre [1] [2] park operated by the Somerset County Park Commission and located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and separated from the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge by the Passaic River. The park displays a diverse ecosystem in floodplains of the upper Passaic River and its contributors and contains swamps ...
Somerset County Environmental Education Center: Basking Ridge: Somerset: Skylands Region: 425-acre Lord Stirling Park, ecosystem of the area around the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association: Hopewell Township: Mercer: Delaware River Region: Watershed Center for environmental education on the 930-acre ...
The Great Swamp Watershed Association, founded in 1981, works to protect the entire 55-square-mile (140 km 2) watershed that surrounds the swamp. [12] Within the Great Swamp there also is a nonprofit bird-rehabilitation center founded in 1977, called The Raptor Trust , mainly specializing in birds of prey , such as eagles , hawks , and owls .
Somerset County parks include Lord Stirling Park (part of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge), the Environmental Education Commission and the region is one of the largest equestrian areas in the United States.
Basking Ridge was originally settled in the 1720s by British Presbyterians escaping religious persecution. The land was bought from the Lenape Native Americans. [12]Bernards Township was officially chartered on May 21, 1760, granted by King George II and granted to Sir Francis Bernard, first governor of the noted section which includes Basking Ridge.
Kings Gap Environmental Education Center is a 1,454-acre (588 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Cooke, Dickinson, and Penn Townships, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acquired the land in 1973 from the C. H. Masland and Son Carpet Company.
Hudson River interpretive center, tidal marsh and 2-acre park, operated by Sarah Lawrence College and the Hudson River Valley Environmental Education Institute at the former Beczak Environmental Education Center Chip Holt Nature Center: Lakeville: Livingston: Western New York: located on Conesus Lake in Vitale Park, co-sponsored by the Town
The Passaic River (/ p ə ˈ s eɪ. ɪ k / pə-SAY-ik or locally / p ə ˈ s eɪ k / pə-SAYK [2]) is a river, approximately 80 miles (130 km) long, [3] in northern New Jersey.The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, called the Great Swamp, draining much of the ...