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Cape May County
=Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve=

The Nature Conservancy
Cape May Court House, New Jersey 08210 Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve web page Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve trail map

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Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve (TNC)
Coordinates: 39.1213211, -74.8202634 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve
Situated in the outer coastal plain on the Cape May peninsula and within the richly diverse Cape May Forest, Lizard Tail Swamp Nature Preserve is home to a lush and diverse habitat. The nature preserve protects a globally rare Cape May lowland swamp community located at the headwaters of Bidwell Creek. Bidwell Creek, which flows into the Delaware Bay, provides sediment to surrounding beaches and salt marsh that birds like the red knot depend on for stopover habitat during migration.

Fed by groundwater, the lowland swamps are replete with a variety of natural communities: pine-oak forest, coastal plain mixed-oak forest and sweet gum and red maple swamp. Lizard Tail Swamp Nature Preserve adjoins the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge thus extending a corridor of forest which provides critical feeding and resting habitat for migrating birds and the primary source of drinking water for people who live in and visit the area.

The Nature Conservancy has developed a trail system on the nature preserve funded through a grant received from the Federal Highway Administration and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The three-mile trail system allows for visitor access while avoiding sensitive ecological areas. From Lizard Tail Swamp Preserve web page

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