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Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge will present its June Second Sunday program “Cicadas: Strange and Charming” ...
Most of the blaze is in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Firefighters from across the country are battling it. The fire is the refuge's largest in recent history, surpassing a 2008 ...
In addition to its primary role as a wildlife refuge, the Great Dismal Swamp also offers history, having been designated part of the Underground Railroad in 2003, the first national wildlife ...
The wildfire that burned more than 4,440 acres in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge last summer and sent clouds of smoke throughout Hampton Roads is finally out, the refuge manager ...
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Morris County is one of more than 570 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and being ...
Blackbrook Audubon announced it will host a trip to Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge where anyone can ... wetlands were once part of the Great Black Swamp, which stretched from Lake Erie to just ...
Today, the Great Dismal Swamp is protected by a 113,000 acre National Wildlife Refuge managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. What is now a vast, uninhabited landscape is actually just a remnant of ...
The National Park Service is asking members of the public to share their thoughts about a potential National Heritage Area designation in the region of the Great Dismal Swamp, a ...
but the Great Dismal Swamp wildlife refuge is just a little part of it," said John Warren, the communications specialist for the National Park Service's northeast region. He said multiple states ...
Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick vegetation and swatting away mosquitoes, he gets to a section of this 113,000-acre national ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will move forward with a plan to expand the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge the swamp's supporters ... the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China.