The Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge Is Dedicated
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Animals, Endangered Species, Zoology, Cities, Urbanization, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: New Jersey
- Date: May, 1964
Article abstract: Local citizens fought to protect a unique wild area within the New York metropolitan area which was threatened with conversion to a major jetport.
Summary of Event
In 1959, the New York-New Jersey Port Authority began to explore an area in Morris County, New Jersey (about twenty-six miles west of Manhattan), as the site of a fifth jetport for the New York metropolitan area. The site included ten thousand acres of rural countryside, including a wetland known as the Great Swamp. Previous threats to the wetland had included flood-control...
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