Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey

Text And Photography By Jay Goodrich

Updated October 19, 2018

The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located only 26 miles from the center of Times Square in New York City. Part of the suburbs near the town of Morristown, N.J., the refuge was formed when environmentalists and developers collided over the construction of a jetport in the 1950s. The Great Swamp Committee came to the rescue; it raised more than a million dollars to purchase the first 3,000 acres of land, which it then donated to the Department of the Interior.

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Originally Published June 1, 2004

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