LAKE MARGUERITE WILDLIFE REFUGE
Washington Township, Warren County, NJ
22 acres

Directions:

The park entrance is on Jonestown Road just a short drive northeast of the intersection of  Jonestown Road and Brass Castle Road (Route 623). (Just up from the Roaring Rock Restaurant; and across from mouth of Mountain Ridge Drive.)

The park is adjacent to Griffith Woods.

History:

1981  -- established with a donation of property by John Lundy.

Bridges and trail benches built and erected by students and faculty from Project Excel School.

A fishing derby for children 14 years and younger sponsored by the Junior Women’s Club held here in May.

Habitats:

open fields, woods, a small pond (about one acre), streams.

Trails:

0.7 mile of trails/roads with seven (7) bridges across streams.

Signs of beaver activity around the small pond.  In the pond, saw a speckled coy.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney
* = plants found in bloom, 4/20/2003

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple) *
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Ostrya virginiana (eastern hop hornbeam)
Picea abies (Norway spruce)
Picea sp. (spruce) planted
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Populus deltoides (cottonwood)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Salix sp. (willow) *

Shrubs:
Alnus sp. (alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Forsythia sp. (golden bells) *
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush) *
Lonicera sp. (honey suckle)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Salix sp. (willow) *
Viburnum prunifolium (blackhaw viburnum)
Vinca minor (periwinkle) *

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Smilax sp. (greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp)
Barbarea vulgaris (common wintercress)
Cardamine sp. (toothwort) *
Centaurea sp. (knapweed)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Desmodium sp. (beggar ticks)
Erythronium americanum (trout lily) *
Glechoma hederacea (gill over the ground)
Hepatica americana (round-lobed hepatica) *
Impatiens sp. (jewelweed)
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Panax trifolius (dwarf ginseng)
Rumex obtusifolius (round-leaved dock)
Solidago sp. (goldenrod)
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail)
Vernonia noveboracensis (New York ironweed)

Sedges:
Carex stricta (tussock sedge)

Grasses:
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)

Ferns:
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)