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Cluster of bald cypress trees in Trap Pond State Park. The bald cypress is a wetland tree adapted to areas of calm, shallow standing water. Trap Pond State Park is the northernmost park in North America that includes cypress and bald cypress, although the actual range continues further north, ending just north of Georgetown, Delaware, in the Ellendale State Forest.
Delaware, United States has several bodies of water to fish, both fresh and salt water. The state borders the Atlantic Ocean , and contains many small freshwater ponds and rivers. Freshwater
Named for the first Director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife. McGinnis Pond Wildlife Area: Kent: 31 [13]-acre (13 ha) A small fishing pond. Milford Neck Wildlife Area: Kent, Sussex: 1979 5,038 [14]-acre (2,039 ha) The disconnected pieces of this wildlife area preserve land around the Murderkill River, the Mispillion River, and the Delaware ...
Killens Pond: Kent: 1,488 acres (602 ha) [10] 1965 The core of this park is a 66-acre millpond, but it also includes campgrounds, hiking trails, and a water park. Lums Pond: New Castle: 1,790 acres (720 ha) 1963 Lums Pond was originally used to supply water for the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal when the facility still used canal locks. It is the ...
DNREC was established in 1970 through legislation passed by the Delaware General Assembly the year before. Previously, six commissions had been charged with overseeing the First State's natural resources: the Board of Game and Fish, Shell Fisheries, State Park, Water and Air Resources, State Forestry and State Soil and Water.
Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
Pages in category "State parks of Delaware" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Trap Pond State Park; W. White Clay Creek State Park;
In the following years, approximately 1,700 acres were acquired surrounding Trussum Pond, all of which has since been transferred to the state of Delaware, and is now part of Trap Pond State Park. [4] Delaware Wild Lands currently owns and manages over 19,000 acres spread across all three counties of Delaware and a small portion in Maryland. [5]