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[Name]: Troy Meadows
[Image]:
[Date]: 1967
[Location]: Parsippany-Troy Hills 40°50′46″N 74°22′45″W / 40.846026°N 74.37928°W / 40.846026; -74.37928 (Troy Meadows)
[County]: Morris
[Ownership]: mixed- state, private
[Description]: The last unpolluted freshwater marsh of large size in the region. -
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[Name]: Sunfish Pond
[Image]:
[Date]: January 1970
[Location]: Columbia 41°00′11″N 75°04′23″W / 41.003043°N 75.073099°W / 41.003043; -75.073099 (Sunfish Pond)
[County]: Warren
[Ownership]: state
[Description]: This glacial pond is a favorite hiking destination in Worthington State Forest, adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas mentioned the pond in his dissenting opinion in the Sierra Club v. Morton case. -
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[Name]: Moggy Hollow Natural Area
[Image]:
[Date]: January 1970
[Location]: Far Hills 40°40′25″N 74°36′51″W / 40.67351°N 74.614055°W / 40.67351; -74.614055 (Moggy Hollow Natural Area)
[County]: Somerset
[Ownership]: private
[Description]: This narrow ravine is where Glacial Lake Passaic, pushed by the Wisconsin Glacier found an outlet, draining to the Raritan river. It remains today a nature preserve and an example of glacial geography. -
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[Name]: Palisades of the Hudson
[Image]:
[Date]: June 1983
[Location]: Fort Lee to Rockleigh40°57′52″N 73°54′31″W / 40.964507°N 73.908591°W / 40.964507; -73.908591 (Palisades of the Hudson)
[County]: Bergen
[Ownership]: state
[Description]: Listed in New York, this dramatic geologic ridge runs along the Hudson River -
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[Name]: Great Swamp
[Image]:
[Date]: May 1966
[Location]: Green Village 40°42′30″N 74°28′00″W / 40.708333°N 74.466667°W / 40.708333; -74.466667 (Great Swamp)
[County]: Morris and Somerset
[Ownership]: federal
[Description]: The remnant of the bottom of Glacial Lake Passaic which was formed by the melting waters of the retreating Wisconsin Glacier at the end of the last Ice Age. Established in 1960 as a National Wildlife Refuge now covering 7,600 acres (31 km2), it gained landmark status in 1966, and in 1968 became the first formally designated wilderness refuge in the United States. -
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[Name]: Riker Hill Fossil Site
[Image]:
[Date]: June 1971
[Location]: Roseland 40°48′57″N 74°19′36″W / 40.815705°N 74.326678°W / 40.815705; -74.326678 (Riker Hill Fossil Site)
[County]: Essex
[Ownership]: county
[Description]: Over 1,000 Dinosaur, animal and insect tracks from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods were discovered here in 1968 in a former stone quarry.
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