The Edwin B.
Forsythe National Wildlife
Refuge, where more than 43,000
acres of southern New Jersey
coastal habitats are actively
protected and managed for
migratory birds. Forsythe is one
of more than 500 refuges in the
National Wildlife Refuge System
administered by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The National Wildlife Refuge
System is a network of lands and
waters managed specifically for
the protection of wildlife and
wildlife habitat and represents
the most comprehensive wildlife
resource management program in
the world. Units of the system
stretch across the United States
from northern Alaska to the
Florida Keys, and include small
islands in the Caribbean and
South Pacific. The character of
the Refuges is as diverse as the
nation itself.
