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The refuge is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, just 12 mi (19 km) south of Cambridge, Maryland in Dorchester County, and consists of over 28,000 acres (110 km 2) of freshwater impoundments, brackish tidal wetlands, open fields, and mixed evergreen and deciduous forests.
As of 2022, there are 588 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States, [1] with the addition of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge. [2] Refuges that have boundaries in multiple states are listed only in the state where the main visitor entrance is located.
Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a National Wildlife Refuge complex in the state of Maryland located near the Delmarva Peninsula. Refuges within the complex [ edit ]
Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13,096 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's largest municipality. Cambridge is the fourth most populous city in Maryland's Eastern Shore region, after Salisbury, Elkton and Easton. [5] [6]
On March 9, 2013—the 100th anniversary of Tubman's death—the State of Maryland and the National Park Service broke ground for a new protected area within the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. This 17-acre (69,000 m 2) state-owned site lay entirely within the refuge's boundaries on Maryland Route 335. The state designated the land a state ...
Fishing Bay is a large saltwater bay in Dorchester County, Maryland. From tributaries to its north in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and Fishing Bay Wildlife Management Area, it flows south into the Chesapeake Bay. Its borders are formed by Elliot's Island to the east, and the greater bulk of Dorchester County to the west.
Ocean City and Assateague beaches in Maryland were closed Sunday due to a "significant amount of medical waste" washing up onshore. What we know. UPDATE: Medical waste forces closures of beaches ...
Harriet Tubman, c. 1885. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is a 480-acre (190 ha) National Park Service unit in the U.S. state of Maryland.It commemorates the life of former enslaved Harriet Tubman, who became an activist in the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War.