{{Short description|Creek in New Jersey, United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} '''Culver Brook''' (also known as '''Culver Creek''') is the West Branch of the Paulins Kill and flows through Frankford Township and Branchville Borough in Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey. Its headwaters are fed by Bear Swamp, Lake Owassa, and Culver's Lake and merges with the Dry Brook before joining the Paulins Kill's east branch near the unincorporated hamlet of Augusta in Frankford Township.
In 2025, the Culver Brook Preserve was created by the Walkill River Watershed Management Group "to improve the water quality of Culver Brook and the headwaters of the Paulins Kill."<ref name=Walkill>{{cite web|url=http://www.wallkillriver.org/news/article.aspx?id=599|website=Walkill River Watershed Management Group|title=News: Culver Brook Preserve Opens to Public|date=February 13, 2025|access-date=March 4, 2026}}</ref> {{As of|2025}}, the 93-acre property is owned by the "Greater Culver Lake Watershed Conservation Foundation and is being converted into a wildlife preserve."<ref name=Walkill />
In May 2025, the Greater Culver Lake Watershed Conservation Foundation secured an additional "adjacent 173-acre forested parcel, which has been dubbed 'Culver Brook Preserve East.'These new preserves will not only safeguard the natural resources and beauty of the region, but also offer valuable green space for the public to enjoy."<ref name=NJCF>{{cite web|date=Mar 25, 2025|url=https://www.njconservation.org/press_release/268-acres-preserved-as-open-space-in-sussex-county/|website=New Jersey Conservation Foundation |title=News: 268 acres preserved as open space in Sussex County|access-date=March 4, 2026}}</ref> This is a total of "268 acres preserved as open space in Sussex County."<ref name=NJCF /> The purchases of the 268 acres were funded in part by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gclwcf.org/preserve-land-2/|website=Greater Culver Lake Watershed Conservation Foundation|title=PRESERVE LAND: DEDICATED TO PRESERVING CHERISHED LANDSCAPES|access-date=March 4, 2026}}</ref>
==See also== *2025 in the environment *List of rivers of New Jersey
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Category:Rivers of Sussex County, New Jersey Category:Paulins Kill watershed Category:Rivers of New Jersey Category:Nature reserves in New Jersey Category:2025 in the environment Category:Protected areas established in 2025 {{SussexCountyNJ-geo-stub}} {{NewJersey-river-stub}}