page_title: List of Delaware state forests
section_title: Blackbird State Forest
hierarchical_section_title: List of Delaware state forests / Blackbird State Forest
caption_attribution_description: English: The Blackbird Pond on the Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in New Castle County, Delaware
context_page_description: Delaware has three state forests, one in each county, totaling more than 19,000 acres. These natural resource areas are managed by the Delaware Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
  see also Delaware State Forests
context_section_description: Located north of Smyrna, Blackbird State Forest covers approximately 5,400 acres (22 km²) on the border of New Castle/Kent counties. The ten tracts of Blackbird State Forest are open to the public for nature walks, hiking, jogging, and horseback riding all year. It features a 1/2-mile, wheelchair-accessible wildlife and nature interpretation trail on the Tybout Tract and the Blackbird Education Center on the Meadows Tract. Long-range management plans for Blackbird State Forest outline goals for timber production, wildlife habitat, recreation, soil and water protection, wetland and endangered species protection, and public education.
  Many educational programs are available at the Blackbird State Forest Education Center on the Meadows Tract. Complementing a center at Redden State Forest, the facility has two meeting spaces and interactive displays: The Life Cycle of a Forest, Tree Identification, Invasive Species, Urban/Community Forestry, and Wildland Firefighting. Visitors can see a diorama of a beaver pond, a working beehive, and exotic and native insects. Work has also begun on a new nature trail, demonstration saw mill, and arboretum.
caption: Blackbird Pond is located on the Meadows Tract of Blackbird State Forest in New Castle County, Delaware
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