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The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

The refuges location in one of the Atlantic Flyways most active flight paths makes it an important link in the vast network of national wildlife refuges administered nationwide by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its value for the protection of water birds and their habitat continues to increase as people develop the New Jersey shore for our own use. Forsythe Refuge is a part of the Hudson River/New York Bight Ecosystem and The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail. In 1986 it was designated a Wetland of International Importance under The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance--otherwise known as the Ramsar Convention.

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1984 (98 Stat. 207), renamed the Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge and the Barnegat National Wildlife Refuge, collectively -s the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, in memory of the

State Park ~ Broadway & The Bay, Barnegat Light, NJ ~ Phone (609)494-2016 Barnegat National Wildlife Refuge ~ Rt-72,Manahawkin, NJ ~ Phone (609) 6982387 Cattus Island Park & Nature Center ~

Exit Going North Use Exit Allaire Park 98 98 Barnegat Lighthouse 63 63 Barnegat National Wildlife Refuge 63 63 Bass River Forest 52 50 Belleplain Forest 17 13 Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge

the most common diurnal raptor is the harrier, the "marsh hawk." Manahawkin and adjacent Barnegat National Wildlife Refuge is a winter harrier stronghold. Sometimes a half a dozen or more harriers

Barnegat Inlet, NJ, 251-001 Barnegat Light, 251-001 Barnegat Lighthouse, 251-001 Barnegat National Wildlife Refuge, 251-001 Barnegat Point, NJ, 190258 Barnes, Betty, 251-033 Barnes, Dr. Albert C

Barnegat National Wildlife Refuge