$691,379
$101,744
1.56 square miles
$172,974
Malibu Beach WMA is a small but beautiful piece of undeveloped beach providing valuable nesting habitat for several threatened and endangered birds. Black Skimmers, Least Terns and Common Terns nest on this beach in summer. Furthermore, this 95.7-acre site hosts a large variety of migrant and breeding shorebirds, herons and ducks throughout the year.
Pork Island is a partially confined site with low, incomplete berm walls located immediately adjacent to the access road to Margate City, NJ. Situated along Beach Thorofare (also the NJ Intracoastal Waterway), this site was a one-time use in 1938 when the NJ Bureau of Commerce and Navigation contracted to have the channel in Beach Thorofare straightened south of the Margate access road toll bridge. This was done in two stages creating the Pork Island site in 1938, followed by an unconfined discharge onto the marshes south of Pork Island as further efforts were expended to continue a straight channel south several thousand feet. The second effort took place prior to February 26,1940 aerial photographs, which show an extensive sheet of white sand covering the sites called Pork Island South and Dune Island sites