• Winter sunrise, Kittatinny Ridge

    Delaware Water Gap

    National Recreation Area NJ,PA

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  • Season Starts!

    Childs Park opens Thursday, May 23. Dingmans Falls Visitor Center opens Saturday May 25, and will be open Friday, Saturday, Sunday the rest of the summer. The road to Dingmans Falls is open but is single lane at one point and NO BUSES or RVs ARE ALLOWED More »

Feature Pages on Environmental Factors

 

Most of these features were first published in the park's newsletter, Spanning the Gap, (STG). For related pages in this website, look up the feature by year under:
NEWS: Park Newspaper-Archive of Back Issues of STG, by year

 

Fire Regime
Rx Fire (STG: Spring 1999 Vol. 21, No. 1) The prescribed fire policy. By Fire Management Officer Doug Riley.
Smokey Bear (under Features: Animals)

Non-Native Species
A Balancing Act (STG: Summer 1997 Vol. 19, No. 2) The role of resource management in the balance of nature.
Aliens Invade Park! (STG: Fall/Winter 1998 Vol. 20, No. 3) An overview of the exotic plant situation in the recreation area.
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (under Insects)

Water Quality
Acid Rain (STG: Summer 1988 Vol. 10 No. 2) What acid rain is and what it does.
Clean Water (STG: Summer 1988 Vol. 10 No. 2) How water quality is measured for the river.
The River Clean-up (under Features: Volunteers)

Weather
Major Floods (under Stories)

Climate Friendly (under Park Planning)

 

Climate Friendly (under Park Planning)

Did You Know?

2012_dykKAYAKER

... chief causes of water fatalities on the Delaware River are: (1) swimming without a lifejacket (PFD); (2) trying to swim across the river; and (3) swimming after drinking alcohol. Wear a pfd on and in the river. Swim at  lifeguarded beaches. NEVER TRY TO SWIM ACROSS THE RIVER! More...