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swamp swamp, shallow body of water in a low-lying, poorly drained depression, usually containing abundant plant growth dominated by trees, such as cypress, and high shrubs.
Hatfield was designated one of the new towns in 1948 to alleviate overpopulation in London.
Okefenokee Swamp Okefenokee Swampōand180;kefenō´kē, c.600 sq mi (1,550 sq km), c.40 mi (60 km) long and averaging 20 mi (32 km) in width, SE Ga., extending into N Fla. It is a saucer-shaped depression with low ridges and small islands rising above the water and vegetation cover.
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Zayandeh Rud Zayandeh Rudzīyändĕ´ rood or Zaindeh Rudzīndĕ´, river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, rising in the Zagros Mts., W central Iran, and flowing southeast through an agricultural district to a swamp W of Yazd; used for irrigation along its entire length.
water moccasin water moccasin or cottonmouth, highly venomous snake, Ancistrodon piscivorus, of the swamps and bayous of the S United States.
It is divided into estuarine and freshwater systems, which may be further subdivided by soil type and plant life into bogs, swamps, and marshes.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Beautiful Creature/Juliana's... [ECD] [Limited] - Juliana Hatfield at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hatfield’s famous sardonicism is in short supply on ‘Beautiful Creature," but she gets in a few clever punches.
Hatfield bypasses the traditional routes for an artist whose creativity as at a standstill—the greatest-hits compilation path and the detour into live albumdom—for the less time-worn double-album course.
In her earlier days, Hatfield trafficked in legitimizing the realities of such desperation, but her only interest on "Total System Failure" seems to be in tearing down the despondent conformists who constitute the mass of American society.
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 Okefenokee Swamp -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It is the largest (additional info and facts about freshwater) freshwater swamp in (A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama) North America.
It is believed to have been a (additional info and facts about prehistoric) prehistoric (additional info and facts about salt marsh) salt marsh.
It is also the home of the (A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book) comic strip character (additional info and facts about Pogo) Pogo.
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 Great Swamp Origin and History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The lake disappeared and was eventually replaced by extensive marshes and swamps which would be named Black Meadows, Great Piece Meadows, Lee Meadows, Troy Meadows, Long Meadow, Bog and Vly Meadows, Hatfield Swamp, and Great Swamp.
Various modern uses have been planned for the Great Swamp: flood control in the 1920s; drainage projects in the 1930s; and a major jet airport proposal in 1959.
It was the threat of the jetport that enabled the Great Swamp Committee of the North American Wildlife Foundation to muster the aid of a significant number of volunteers.
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 Hatfield Family History Introduction / Miscellaneous Information
Hatfield crossed the plains with her husband and two little sons, the trip occupying four months and ten days, and notwithstanding the Indians and other incidents of a long move in an emigrant wagon, landed in Alder Gulch in 1864....Shorty after they moved to what is now Sheridan, where John e.
Hatfield was born in 1865 being the first child born in the town.
Fannie Hatfield was drowned in almost the same way as their father had been drowned, while crossing the same stream of water in a canoe.
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 Understanding The Value Of Wetlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Great Swamp is a remnant of a large Pleistocene glacial lake known as Glacial Lake Passaic, which was formed by the meltwaters of the Wisconsin Glacier approximately 12,000 to 15,000 years ago.
The Great Swamp is a headwaters for the Passaic in this area of Morris County (Figure 3).
Because swamps are diverse environments, they support a variety of animal life such as foxes, squirrels and raccoons in the upland areas and frogs, turtles and salamanders in the wetter areas of the swamp.
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 GORP - Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey
Swamp woodland, hardwood ridges, cattail marsh, and grassland typify this 6,818 acre refuge.
It was the threat of the jetport which enabled the Great Swamp Committee of the North American Wildlife Foundation to muster the aid of a significant number of volunteers.
Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, operated by the Morris County Park Commission, is located on the eastern side of the refuge off Southern Boulevard in Chatham.
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 Passaic River Info
In the years necessary for the water to wear down the hard rocks in the gaps to their present level, there were post-glacial lakes in the basin.
The longest lived of these was the one that occupied the area of The Great Swamp northwest of Long Hill, which lasted while the overflow was cutting the narrow gorge at Millington.
Prior to 1902, flood control for the Passaic River Basin was limited to ditching local swamps and desnagging and enlarging sections of the Passaic River's channel.
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 Understanding The Value Of Wetlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Swamps are wetlands that are dominated by shrubs or trees.
Swamps are usually saturated with water during the growing season but may dry out in the late summer.
Because swamps are diverse environments, they support a variety of animal life such as foxes, squirrels and raccoons in the upland areas and frogs, turtles and salamanders in the wetter areas.
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 Hatfield Swamp - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Hatfield Swamp - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Hatfield swamp is a wetlands area in the US state of New Jersey, forming what might be considered the "second bank" of the Passaic River between Morris and Essex counties.
It has a number of trails for public hiking.
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Hatfield Swamp skirts the Passaic River at the border of Essex and Morris counties.
The swamp and approximately 700 acres of adjoining open space were acquired by Essex County during the period from 1954 to 1960 and became West Essex Park.
The resolution claimed the swamp is a habitat for several endangered and threatened species, such as Twembly's salamander, the blue spotted salamander and the bog turtle.
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 HIKING GREAT SWAMP
The Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center is located in Chatham at 247 Southern Boulevard.
The lake eventually disappeared and was replaced by extensive marshes and swamps.
After considerable draining there was still a lot of ground water that remained, confined by almost impermeable clay and silt beds as much as 69 feet in thickness.
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 Fornits' Book Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hatfield was found in a hotel room, dead of an aparent drug overdose.
Everyone in the swamp community was reacting in panic at every shadow and sound.
Tranquillity once again returned to their litte community in the swamp after Pogo calmed their fears by convincing them that there was no enemy.
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 September 2004 Sightings
HATFIELD (from Dave Mako) I went to the field you described on massbird this afternoon between 4:45 and 5:45p.
HATFIELD (from Chris Gentes) Heather and I checked out the fields in Valley Road and way in back there was a flooded pool and found 2 Am Golden Plovers (juv), 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 8 Least Sandpipers.
HATFIELD (from Larry Therrien) I checked a few fields in Hatfield mid morning today to see if any shorebirds were enjoying the flooded fields, but came up empty.
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He went with his father-in-law to Hadley in 1659; freeman, Mass., 1666; he returned to Hartford about 1675, and he and his wife were admitted to the South Church, March 31, 1678; d.
She married (2) WILLIAM GAYLORD December 21, 1671 (Source: Genealogies of Hadley Familes Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, S. Hadley, Amherst & Granby, MA; by L. Boltwood, 1862, publish, 32).
She married (1) NOAH COLEMAN December 27, 1666 (Source: L. Boltwood, 1862, Genealogies of Hadley Familes Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, S. Hadley, Amherst & Granby, MA, H. Hunting & Co., Springfield, MA, 1905, 32.), son of THOMAS COLEMAN and FRANCES ALBRIGHT.
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 Salon | Letters to the Editor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As character assassins go, J.H. Hatfield is maybe an L.H. Oswald -- a guy who looks kind of like a commie, but who might be something else entirely -- like perhaps the fall guy for a right-wing operation.
Hatfield appears to have been convicted 11 years ago of hiring a hit man to kill his boss.
I can't excuse his crime, but I have read enough news stories to know that, at least with politicians, imprisonment always leads to born-again Christianity and a rededication to truth and American values.
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 Tom Watson, Freelance Writer / Clips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Cup of coffee in hand, his wife still alseep, he watches the sunrise as alligators glide beneath a hovering mist, fish splash and nesting herons bank and descend into nearby cypress trees.
Imploring a House committee to "clean us up, not out," Hatfield and other owners asked to be allowed instead to install marine toilets, buy permits and form a self-policing association.
But Tanner said that is unlikely since much of the land is swamp and most is owned by the state and timber industry companies committed to keeping it natural.
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 South Jersey RC&D Council, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The breeding habitats-wooded swamps, marshes, and woodland ponds-must be in close proximity to the terrestrial habitat.
Drainage of hardwood swamps and ponds, lowering of the water table, and other disruptions of fresh water habitats, including housing developments, have all but obliterated natural breeding habitat.
The clearing of woodland swamps or disruption of the water table must be avoided or at least minimized to ensure the Tremblay's and blue-spotted salamanders' survival in New Jersey.
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 Hatfield Guide -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
No matter what your age, Hatfield has all the ingredients for a fun and relaxing time.
The views along this paved road are said to be magnificent as you pass over farmlands, cross the Hadley common, pass old barns and brooks, and go through part of the Lawrence swamp.
This is a great trail for both Mountain bikers and hikers who need a challenge or long for a whole day of peace and quiet in the beautiful woods this trail runs through.
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 HIKING TROY MEADOWS
This is New Jersey's largest freshwater marsh, a vast plain of cattail freshwater marsh, swamp and floodplain communities.
It is an example of cattail marsh along with the Hatfield Swamp, Black Meadows and the Great Swamp Refuge.
While some parts of Troy Meadows have progressed to swamp forest through the process of succession, the cattail community is extensive.
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 Mill River Watershed Project - UMass Extension - Natural Resources - Habitats - Vegetation Patterns
It extends from the confluence of the Mill River and the Connecticut to Elm Street, Hatfield.
The width of the forest buffer is narrow, and is bordered by either agricultural activity or residential uses.
Above the Advocate Dam, the impounded area is an emergent marsh dominated by water willow (Decodon verticillata), touch-me-not, and isolated clusters of speckled alder (Alnus rugosa).
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 Passaic Meadows
The swamps are dominated by red maple (Acer rubrum), pin oak (Quercus palustris), and ash (Fraxinus spp.
Development of remaining open space in the Great Swamp watershed should be limited and carefully planned in order to recharge groundwater, reduce erosion, reduce nonpoint source pollution, furnish flood control, and provide habitat.
The Great Swamp Hydrologic Unit Area Project report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, recommends the use of best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution and improve water quality in tributaries to the Great Swamp.
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 Passaic River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The river in it upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, draining much of the northern portion of the state through its tributaries.
It passes Livingston and West Caldwell, where it flows through the Hatfield Swamp and is joined by the Rockaway River.
Southwest of Lincoln Park it passes through the Great Piece Meadows, where it turns abruptly eastward and is joined at Two Bridges by its major tributary, the Pompton River.
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 Soldiers in King Philip's War, Introduction, Part VII
The Narragansets were entrenched in a very strong position in a great swamp in what is now South Kingston, R.I. It was claimed that great numbers of Wampanoags and other hostiles were among them finding refuge, and they were defiant and threatening.
The Indians began to prepare for planting fields along the river; and Canonchet with a body of his men went back to their country to bring up seed-corn, of which large quantities were there stored.
On May 18th the whole company of soldiers and volunteers, about one hundred and fifty, mustered at Hatfield, and marched out at evening towards the "Falls." They eluded the outposts of the enemy, and at daylight arrived undiscovered at the camp of the Indians at the fishing-place.
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She was married to David GRAVES (son of Samuel GRAVES and Sarah) on 6 Jun 1720.113,114,115,116 David GRAVES was born on 9 Dec 1693 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts.117 He died on 25 Aug 1781.118 History of The Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, by John Montague Smith, prepared by Henry W. Taft and Abbie T. Montague.
Remembrance BARDWELL was born in 1713 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts.128,129 He died on 14 Mar 1804 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts.130 History of Deerfield, by George Sheldon, Vol.
She was of Hatfield is known due to a letter of dismissal and recommendation to the Whately church as Tabitha Hastings.
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 WorldBook General Reference Encyclopedia > Geography > General > Terms > Swamp >   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The most obvious difference between a marsh and a swamp is that marshes lack trees, whereas swamps can be heavily forested.
Swamp Song : A Natural History of Floridas Swamps - A...
Hardwood Swamps Hardwood swamps have trees like red maple, fl willow, aspen, cottonwood, ashes, elms, swamp white oak, pin oak, tupelo, and birches.
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 Hatfield Swamp, New Jersey: Hatfield Swamp, New Jersey Latitude and Longitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hatfield Swamp, New Jersey: Hatfield Swamp, New Jersey Latitude and Longitude
Hatfield Swamp, NJ Hatfield Swamp is a swamp in Morris County, New Jersey.
No representation is made or warranty given as to its content.
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 Passaic River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The river in it upper course flows in a highly circuitous route,meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburbannorthern New Jersey, draining much of the northern portion of the state through its tributaries.
In its lower portion, it flowsthrough the most urbanized and industrialized areas of the state, including along downtown Newark.
Southwest of Lincoln Park it passes through the Great Piece Meadows, whereit turns abruptly eastward and is joined at Two Bridges by its major tributary, the Pompton River.
www.therfcc.org /passaic-river-134699.html   (549 words)

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