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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Feature Pages on Environmental Factors

Most of these features were first published in the park's newsletter,
Spanning the Gap. These are pdf files. For related pages in this website,
and for links to other websites for each feature, look up the feature under:
• NEWS: Park Newspaper-Features from Back Issues, by year (STG features)

 

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. By park volunteer Nicole Voigt.

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 (People)

 

WEATHER

Major Floods (under Stories)

 

Climate Friendly (under Park Planning) | Photo Galleries on all subjects

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Did You Know?
... that in the 1750s, the northwest border of New Jersey (now Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area) was a frontier of the English colonies. In the French & Indian (Seven Years) War, a string of forts protected these settlements. The sites of seven of these outposts are in the park.
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