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The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway. The refuge is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, just 12 mi (19 km) south of Cambridge, Maryland in Dorchester County, and consists of over 28,000 acres (110 km 2) of ...
Area. 590 acres. Established. 1967. Governing body. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Blackwater River State Park is a Florida State Park located fifteen miles northeast of Milton, near Harold, off U.S. 90. The address is 7720 Deaton Bridge Road.
The Blackwater River of Florida is a 56.6-mile-long (91.1 km) [3] river rising in southern Alabama and flowing through the Florida Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico. The river enters Florida in Okaloosa County and flows through Santa Rosa County to Blackwater Bay, an arm of Pensacola Bay. The river passes through Blackwater River State Forest and ...
Coordinates. 30°43′58.44″N 86°52′29.1″W. / 30.7329000°N 86.874750°W / 30.7329000; -86.874750. Area. 206,900 acres (83,700 ha) Other information. Hiking, biking, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, camping, boating. Blackwater River State Forest is a State Forest in the western panhandle of Florida. It is administered by the ...
A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial studies, geology, geography, ecology, and biology. Not all dark rivers are blackwater in that technical sense.
Blackwater Falls State Park. / 39.10889°N 79.49611°W / 39.10889; -79.49611. Blackwater Falls State Park is located in the Allegheny Mountains of Tucker County, West Virginia, US. The centerpiece of the park is Blackwater Falls, a 62-foot (19 m) cascade where the Blackwater River leaves its leisurely course in Canaan Valley and enters ...
Moira Ritter. December 12, 2023 at 1:02 PM. An “iridescent” catfish torpedoed through a rushing blackwater river in Brazil, navigating dead leaves and wood. Little did it know it was soon to ...
Chowan River. Coordinates: 76°39′43″W. A scene along the Chowan River. The Chowan River (cho-WAHHN) [1] is a blackwater river formed with the merging of Virginia's Blackwater and Nottoway rivers near the state line between Virginia and North Carolina. According to the USGS a variant name is Choan River.