Place
Great Kills Park
A 580-acre federal park unit on Staten Island's South Shore, part of Gateway National Recreation Area — one of the largest U.S. National Park Service sites in NYC. Atlantic-facing beach, salt marshes, mudflats, and a notable migratory-bird stopover. Federal stewardship via the National Park Service. The borough's principal beach and tidal-wetland substrate.
Why this listing
Federal stewardship is one of the most-durable substrate-protection arrangements available, and Great Kills Park is the borough’s principal example. Salt marsh, tidal flats, beach — the ecological substrate of the borough’s southeastern coast. Listed as substrate-builder because the work is the institutional protection of intact tidal habitat.
See also
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- Enables: [[bioregion]]
- Shares approach with: [[mount-loretto-unique-area]]
- Member of: [[place]]
- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- National Park Service Gateway NRA [[annadale|Staten Island]] Unit published materials
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Scientific
substrate of
- Atlantic Flyway Great Kills' beach and salt marsh are key Atlantic Flyway shorebird habitat
Practical
shares approach with
- Fort Wadsworth both are SI sites of Gateway National Recreation Area — Fort Wadsworth at the harbor entrance, Great Kills on the South Shore
- Wolfe's Pond Park both are South Shore beach-and-wetland sites — Great Kills federal NPS, Wolfe's Pond NYC Parks
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