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The Cape May County Park & Zoo in Cape May Court House provides free year-round admission to a collection of over 550 animals representing 250 species in 85 acres of exhibits. The zoo is located in the center of Cape May County's Central Park, and together the zoo and the park cover about 220 acres. The zoo began operation in 1978.
The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness.
Swamp habitats include open wet "prairies", cypress forests, scrub-shrub vegetation, upland islands, and open lakes. [11] The Okefenokee Swamp is one of the world's largest intact freshwater ecosystems. [11] It has been designated a Wetland of International Importance by the United Nations under the Ramsar Convention of 1971. [11]
If the Okefenokee receives a UNESCO World Heritage Site protection status, it will very likely save the environment and help local jobs.
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in south Georgia may expand its boundary by 22,000 acres. Public input on it has been extended to Dec. 9. ... Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in south ...
The Okefenokee Swamp is the most extensive blackwater swamp in North America and covers over 438,000 acres. The Okefenokee Swamp Park is headquarters for its founding and administrative body, the Okefenokee Association, Inc., which was granted a sublease to Land Lot 20 in the Dixon Memorial Forest from the U.S. Department of Interior in 1945.
Oct. 5—WAYCROSS — Officials with the Okefenokee Swamp Park here have planned a month of swamp fun as they celebrate 75 years of preservation of the natural oasis that is rich in history ...
The Cape May County Courthouse is located at 9 North Main Street in Cape May Court House, the county seat of Cape May County, which itself is in Middle Township, New Jersey, United States. [ 1 ] It was designed by Edwards & Green of Camden and Philadelphia [ 2 ] and built in 1926–1927 by Bennett McLaughlin Company, also of Philadelphia.