It's great!

Aug 30, 2024 | Cape May National Wildlife Refuge

It’s great!
It’s dismal…
It’s a swamp!
And it’s been a national wildlife refuge for 50 years. ๐Ÿ™Œ

In honor of Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge’s 50th anniversary, here are some of our favorite things about it:

๐Ÿฆ Super neat species live there, like Atlantic white cedar, spotted turtles and red-cockaded woodpeckers!
๐Ÿ‘Œ It has a stellar name.
โœŠ๐Ÿฟ The swamp played an important role in the Underground Railroad and was a safe haven for maroon communities to live for generations.
๐Ÿ’ง It’s swampy! And even though humans drained it (๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ), the water is rising again now that we’ve plugged the holes.
๐Ÿ‚ Peat! Peat soils keep thousands of years of carbon out of the atmosphere and are also squishy. ๐Ÿค—

Cypress Trees at Great Dismal Swamp Refuge, R. Winn/USFWS

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