Animals of the Hackensack Meadowlands

The Hackensack Meadowlands are about 16 kilometers (about 10 miles) long north to south, and cover an area of about 83 square kilometers or 8,300 hectares (about 32 square miles or 21,000 acres) that was once almost all wetlands (see Quinn 1997, Day et al. 1999). The official Hackensack Meadowlands District comprises 7,889 hectares (19,485 acres). ................
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