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Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Index Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1974 to help protect and preserve a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States. [1]

46 relations: Albemarle Sound, American black bear, Atlantic Ocean, Big Cypress National Preserve, Bird, Bobcat, Camden County, North Carolina, Carolina bay, Chamaecyparis thyoides, Chesapeake, Virginia, Dismal Swamp Canal, Edenton, North Carolina, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Everglades, Four Hole Swamp, Gates County, North Carolina, Great Dismal Swamp, Great Dismal Swamp maroons, Intracoastal Waterway, James River, Lake, Lake Drummond, Maple, Marsh, Mesic habitat, Norfolk, Virginia, North Carolina, Nyssa sylvatica, Okefenokee Swamp, Otter, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, Pine, Reptile, Structural encroachment, Suffolk, Virginia, Swamp, Taxodium distichum, Underground Railroad, Union Camp Corporation, United States, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Congress, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Virginia, Weasel, Wildlife.

Albemarle Sound

Albemarle Sound is a large estuary on the coast of North Carolina in the United States located at the confluence of a group of rivers, including the Chowan and Roanoke.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Big Cypress National Preserve

Big Cypress National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in southern Florida, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Miami.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American cat that appeared during the Irvingtonian stage of around 1.8 million years ago (AEO).

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Camden County, North Carolina

Camden County is a county located in the American state of North Carolina.

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Carolina bay

Carolina bays are elliptical depressions concentrated along the Atlantic seaboard within coastal Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and northcentral Florida.

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Chamaecyparis thyoides

Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar, Atlantic white cypress, southern white cedar, whitecedar, or false-cypress), a species of Cupressaceae, is native to the Atlantic coast of North America and is found from southern Maine to Georgia and along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Mississippi.

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Chesapeake, Virginia

Chesapeake is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Dismal Swamp Canal

The Dismal Swamp Canal is located along the eastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina in the United States.

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Edenton, North Carolina

Edenton is a town on Albemarle Sound in Chowan County, North Carolina, United States.

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Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, in the United States.

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Everglades

The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin and part of the neotropic ecozone.

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Four Hole Swamp

Four Holes Swamp is a small blackwater river that is a tributary to the Edisto River in South Carolina.

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Gates County, North Carolina

Gates County is a small, rural county located in the northeast portion of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the border with Virginia.

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Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp is a large swamp in the Coastal Plain Region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

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Great Dismal Swamp maroons

The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were freed and escaped slaves who inhabited the marshlands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina.

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Intracoastal Waterway

The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Boston, Massachusetts, southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas.

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James River

The James River is a river in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Lake Drummond

Lake Drummond is a freshwater lake at the center of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in the United States.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.

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Marsh

A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.

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Mesic habitat

In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a moderate or well-balanced supply of moisture, e.g., a mesic forest, a temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Nyssa sylvatica

Nyssa sylvatica, commonly known as Tupelo, Black gum, sour gum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeast USA and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.

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Okefenokee Swamp

The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow,, peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States.

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Otter

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Pasquotank County, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Structural encroachment

A structural encroachment is a concept in American real property law, in which a piece of real property hangs from one property over the property line of another landowner's premises.

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Suffolk, Virginia

Suffolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum (bald cypress, cypress, southern-cypress, white-cypress, tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress, red-cypress, or swamp cypress) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae that grows on saturated and seasonally inundated soils in the lowlands of the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains of the United States.

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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Union Camp Corporation

Union Camp Corporation was an American pulp and paper company and a private owner of timberland in the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Weasel

A weasel is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.

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Wildlife

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_National_Wildlife_Refuge

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