Items marked with Tag: conservation

• Tony Soprano, Atlantic City and Conservation

  With 1,174 residents per square mile, it is the most densely populated state in the country. Its "Meadowlands" is not known for wildlife diversity, but rather football diversity (the only stadium home to two NFL teams).

• International League of Conservation Photographers

• Native Plant Society of New Jersey

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• Project aims to bring new life to wetlands

  The aerial bombardment will be first, with herbicides sprayed by helicopter. Next, long-necked excavators will tear apart whatever is left. Channels will be dug. Berms will be heaped high.

• The birds are back in town

  The peregrine falcon, which had been completely wiped out east of the Mississippi River by the early 1960s because of the pesticide DDT, is making a strong recovery in urban areas, and has been spotted this spring perched on three bridges that span the Hackensack River in Bergen  …

• Clinton Township agrees to preserve swath of land in danger of development

  For more than 20 years, a 292-acre property in Clinton Township was a key battleground in New Jersey's sprawl wars. Environmentalists saw it as a vital buffer to a major reservoir. Residents saw one last open tract needed to protect the rural aesthetic they cherished.

• Deer hunt planned again in northern NJ

  For a second year in a row, sharpshooters will help thin the deer population in a 2,000-acre northern New Jersey land preserve. Last spring, volunteer marksmen in Essex County killed 213 of an estimated 300 to 400 white-tail deer in the South Mountain Reservation.

• Give to New Jersey Conservation Foundation

  New Jersey Conservation Foundation - preserving the natural lands of NJ for conservation.

• Pinelands Preservation Alliance, protecting the New Jersey Pine Barrens

  Our Mission: To Protect and Preserve the Resources of the New Jersey Pinelands