The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Established in 1960, it is among what has grown to be 806 refuges in the United States National Wildern
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey (March 2008)
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, December
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Winter scene
Lake Passaic
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Lake Passaic was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed in northern New Jersey in the United States at the end of the last ice age approximately 19,000–14,000 years ago. The lake was formed of wat
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
…the Interior. Refuge lands lie within the townships of Chatham, Harding, and Long Hill. The Great Swamp is the remnant of the bottom of the once-mighty Glacial Lake Passaic that approximately 15,000 to 11,000 years ago stretched across 30 by 10 miles (48 by 16 km) in what is presently northern New Jersey. The lake was…
A typical scene along the Passaic River which results from the drainage of the Great Swamp, a remnant of the Glacial Lake Passaic