New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), Office of Fish and Wildlife Information SystemsThis dataset is one of a suite of products from the Nature's Network project (naturesnetwork.org). Nature's Network is a collaborative effort to identify shared priorities for conservation in the Northeast, considering the value of fish and wildlife species and the natural areas they inhabit. Lotic core areas represent intact, well-connected rivers and stream reaches in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region that, if protected as part of stream networks and watersheds, will continue to support a broad diversity of aquatic species and the ecosystems on which they depend. The combination of lotic core areas, lentic (lake and pond) core areas, and aquatic buffers constitute the "aquatic core networks" of Nature's Network. These and other datasets that augment or complement aquatic core networks are available in the Nature's Network gallery: https://nalcc.databasin.org/galleries/8f4dfe780c444634a45ee4acc930a055. A detailed technical guide to aquatic core networks is available at: http://jamba.provost.ads.umass.edu/web/lcc/DSL_documentation_aCores.pdf.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/f78136ea22fd47788bcdc08ee416b454_0engNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Bureau of GISPublicLotic Core Areas in New Jersey [New Jersey]Web servicesNew JerseyLast Modified: 2025-11-24