The Great Swamp Watershed Association ACROSS THE WATERSHED Fall-Winter 2011

Protecting our Waters and our Land for 30 Years

New ’s Great Swamp: A Tradition of Community Involvement ith our 30th Anniversary Gala officially formed. What we discovered can only right around the corner, Steve be described as a long tradition of environ­ Reynolds, our new Director of mental education, advocacy, and stewardship WCommunications & Membership, decided supported­ by communities throughout our to look back through the organ­ization’s water­shed. We hope you enjoy browsing photo archives to learn some more about these images as much as we did, and we hope where we have been. Our col­lection stretches you feel the same kind of pride we do in the back into the 1960s, almost 20 years before remarkable accomplishments achieved in the Great Swamp Watershed Association was the name of the Great Swamp. 

Environmental Education in Great Swamp, 1967—present (1) Great Swamp tour, Nature Trail Area, Oct. 21, 1967. (2) Classroom teaching with middle school students using a GSWA watershed model, 1999. (3) Students learn about water quality in the field, 1986. (4) Current Director of Education & Outreach Hazel England demonstrates watershed dynamics to elementary school children—yes, that’s the same model from 1999! (5) Information abounds on this guided tour of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (GSNWR) in 1996. (6) A -watching tour learns from birding expert Emile DeVito at GSWA’s 2011 BioBlitz. Environmental Stewardship in Great Swamp, 1973—present

(1) A perspective on Millington Gorge and water macroinvertebrate surveying, 1999. (6) Two workday running from the Great Swamp headwaters into the volunteers assemble a boardwalk at the Conservation Passaic River, prior to 1986. (2) Millington Gorge Management Area, 2010. (7) Water quality monitoring from above, July 2009. (3) Workday volunteers haul in Great Swamp prior to 1986. (8) A shot of fall leaves a completed boardwalk into Great Swamp, 1999. (4) along Black Brook—one of the Great Swamp’s five Current Director of Water Quality Programs Laura main streams, 1973. (9) A shot of Black Brook from Kelm (right) plies her trade, May 2011. (5) Dr. Lee another angle showing PSEG’s high-tension wire right- Pollock (right) demonstrates some of the finer points of of- way, 2008.

2 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Environmental Advocacy in Great Swamp, 1959—present

(1) December 14, 1959—the Newark Evening News date unknown. (5) Long-time Executive Director Julia announces the Port Authority’s jetport plans for the Somers shares some of GSWA’s environmental gospel Great Swamp (above). Local citizens pack Madison with the media, 1997. (6) Some of the corporate citi­ High School in an effort to stop jetport construction, zens who have helped protect our waters and our lands circa 1960 (below). (2) A rough footprint of the Port in the Great Swamp, 2011. (7) GSWA supporter Kathy Authority’s proposed jetport overlays a map of lands Abbott and her family make an im­por­tant statement between New Vernon, Green Village and Meyersville, about reducing household water consumption as circa 1959. (3) U.S. Rep. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s addresses citizens attending the dedication of the WaterSense campaign, 2010. (8) A current map of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on May 29, the Great Swamp Watershed and its tributaries, 2011. 1964. Lands once slated for jetport construction (9) U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance (NJ-7th District) and U.S. appear on the map behind the podium. (4) A local Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11th District) flank community meeting to discuss environmental issues, current GSWA Executive Director Sally Rubin. www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 3 From the Desk of the Executive Director

by Sally Rubin ummer vacation is over and the start our Director of Education and Outreach, of a new school year is here once again. will walk you through what we have learned Yes, I can hear you parents cheering! about seasonal changes in wildlife behavior It’sS time to head back into the classroom and the importance of our BioBlitz survey and expand those horizons. GSWA is teams in her article, What A Difference Two getting ready to head back to school too. Years Make: A Roundup of BioBlitz 2011. Our educators are dusting off our watershed BioBlitz was chock-full of important models and will be right there alongside discoveries this year, and not all of them you and your kids this year with some great scientific in nature. For me, the event environmental programs. conveyed a powerful message about the As you read through this edition of Across value of community engagement and the Watershed, you will find a strong current GSWA’s ability to touch and improve the of education and learning threading through lives of others. Just a few days after we all of the articles and announcements. Our had folded up all the tents and hauled our cover story and 30th Anniversary photo waders, test kits and other equipment away retrospective already taught you something from the Helen C. Fenske Visitor Center, about the tremendous history of community we received a phone call from a BioBlitz involvement engendered by Great Swamp participant named John. Some of our staff environmental issues and supported by met John and his young son, David, soon GSWA. It’s hard to believe GSWA has been after arriving to work at the event on Day 1. actively involved in local environmental Some ugly looking storm clouds loomed on issues for 30 years. So much has changed the horizon, but, despite the threat of rain, and yet we seem to face the same issues. The these two were first in line for the evening’s constant pressures of development continue presentations on bats, , and to weigh against the need to protect our owls. That cloudburst eventually hit and all fragile environment and natural resources. of us got soaked, but John and David were We still worry about the quality and quantity not deterred. They stayed at BioBlitz past of water and the it supports. 10 p.m. that evening, then returned for This is also an opportunity for us to tell Day 2. The pair even stuck around to help you a little bit about what we have learned our scientists and volunteers clean up after about Great Swamp over the summer. the event. David’s keen interest in biology Results are in from BioBlitz 2011, which and the environment was impressive for a was held in late June at the Great Swamp kid his age, but we had no idea exactly how National Wildlife Refuge, and, of course, important BioBlitz had been until we heard the findings are interesting! Hazel England, from John later the following week.

4 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org “You changed David’s life,” John said at the other end of the telephone line. “He ACROSS THE WATERSHED got to see grown-ups, real people, doing the is a publication of the Great Swamp things that he loves. Things will never be the Watershed Association. GSWA is a member-supported non­ same for him.” profit organization that has been protecting WOW! How often do you get to hear our waters and our land for 30 years. how much of a difference your hard work Editor: Steven Reynolds makes? How often do you get to hear that Designer: Ann Campbell you have changed a life for the better? Contributors: John and his family have since become Hazel England members of GSWA. Not very long after we Laura Kelm sent him his welcome letter, John sent us an James Northrop email message thanking us for his BioBlitz Steven Reynolds experience once again. “The people at the Blaine Rothauser Great Swamp were without exception kind, Sally Rubin generous and knowledgeable,” he wrote, “and Special thanks to all those photo­ most importantly made my son feel special. I graphers who contributed to “The am proud to be a member of a group of such Great Swamp Watershed Association,” a slide presentation written by Dick Lynch great people.” in 1986. Thank you, John! Thank you, David! And, thanks to everyone like you out there in the Great Swamp Watershed community. In This Issue: You have reminded all of us here at GSWA why we do what we do. You have taught us Tradition of Community Involvement 1 again that we can make a difference. From the Executive Director 4 This newsletter is only the smallest of 30th Anniversary Gala 6 returns GSWA can provide against the Watershed Watch 7 generosity we receive from supporters each Educator Workshops 8 day. Nevertheless, it represents one of the Educational Programs 10 best tools at our disposal for keeping you Breakfast Briefings 12 up-to-date on everything we are doing to Indicator 14 protect the waters and the land that you love and respect. Please read through this Changes to Board and Staff 16 newsletter and see what GSWA has been up CMA Update 17 to and what we have planned for the fall. I am Chemical Assessment on Upper Passaic 18 especially pleased to share information about Meet the New Neighbors 19 the recent land-use victory at Primrose Farm 2010 Macroinvertebrate Study 20 Estate in Harding. And, in keeping with our BioBlitz 2011 Round-up 22 educational theme, do not forget that you will Welcome New Members 26 find announcements for all of our upcoming Chairman’s Appeal Donors 27 Fall 2011 events in these pages. Make sure (continued on page 25)

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 5 30th Anniversary Gala, October 13

he gala celebrating Great Swamp Please join us as we celebrate this Watershed Association’s 30th important milestone in GSWA history and year of service to help us honor Abbie and Julia, Tthe environment and local two of the Great Swamp’s most communities will take place ardent supporters! If you would on Thursday, October 13, at like an invitation but have not the Westin Governor Morris received one, please contact us in Morristown. This year’s gala by calling 973-539-3500 or by theme will be A Watershed sending an email message to Event and will honor Great [email protected]. More Swamp Watershed Association in­for­mation about the gala is founder Abbie Fair and long-time avail­able on our website at www. Credit: S. Reynolds executive director Julia Somers. greatswamp.org.  More than 40 items with a combined value of more than $14,000 are already committed to our gala auction. What’s on the list? Here’s a sneak peak: Eco-sensitive Pond Management • Orchestra seats for the Metropolitan Saturday, September 17 Opera Garabrant Center, Mendham, NJ • An autographed photo of baseball legend Dr. Stephen Souza, president of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run Princeton Hydro, LLC., will speak on • Tickets to a production at Princeton’s Saturday, September 17th, at 10 a.m. McCarter Theater in the Garabrant Center, 4 Wilson • A getaway at Chimney Hill Estates in St., Mendham. Dr. Souza, a hydro Lambertville environmental consultant will discuss • A Baltusrol golf outing how to be ecologically sensitive in • Dinner and lodging at the Black Bass Hotel the maintenance of ponds and the • An aerial tour of Great Swamp surrounding ecosystem. He will discuss • An aerial tour of the Hudson River the biology, the hydrology and the • 4 one-day Park Hopper passes for Disney chemical interactions of pond life. theme parks This program is free of charge and a • Select bottles of wine! presentation of the Mendham Borough Environmental Commission. For more information, please call Laurie Felber at 973-543-0663. To register, please write GSWA is now blogging at to [email protected]. http://acrossthewatershed.blogspot.com

6 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Watershed Watch — Environmental Hot Spots by Sally Rubin, GSWA Executive Director ummarized below is our “hottest” all those who stood up for open space and “hot spot” and one we are especially the environment on July 13. Without your proud to participate in. unwavering commitment to the Primrose S preservation, 13 new ”McMansions” would Harding: Primrose Farm Estate be ready for construction and the single On Wednesday, July 13, 2011, about 100 largest and most-naturally-diverse piece of residents turned out for a Harding Township outdoor space left inside Harding Township Committee meeting where committee would be no more. members decided the fate of 45 acres of On August 9, 2011, Harding Land Trust prime open space (Phase I) at Primrose Farm received a Green Acres grant Estate. With a vote in favor of preservation of $260,000 designated to help protect 75 hanging in the balance, GSWA, Harding more acres of land at Primrose included Land Trust, and Harding Open Space Trust under Phase II of the open space plan. We successfully rallied citizens on behalf of the hope that the township receives additional town’s open space plan. Many of those who funds from Morris County to purchase the showed up spoke out against relegating the 75-acre Phase II properties as well. Great Estate to the developers’ bulldozers. Swamp Watershed Association has agreed to Although the Committee voted unani­ apply for Green Acres funding to help with mously to keep 45 acres of Primrose Farm the preservation of Phase II. Preservation undeveloped and open for public recreation, activities will move ahead for Phase I final decision-making on the issue appeared regardless of the outcome on Phase II.  to be close. Our profound thanks go out to

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www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 7 Teacher Education Workshops

SWA facilitates workshops for K-12 Testing The Waters: Introduce Your formal and non-formal educators Students to the Science of Water Quality that focus on core-content- Saturday, November 19, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. correlatedG activities they can use back in Helen C. Fenske Visitor Center, Great Swamp the classroom or Nature Center. Each six- National Wildlife Refuge, 32 Pleasant Plains hour, hands-on workshop led by GSWA’s Road, Harding Township own experienced naturalist educator, Join GSWA for a pilot workshop to find Hazel England, provides participants with out just how much can be learned from activity guides chock-full of relevant and testing local streams and ponds in the Great engaging content that can be interwoven Swamp watershed. We will use cheap, easy- into existing curricula. Workshops are to-obtain water quality test kits to maximize $15 unless otherwise noted and include the scientific know-how you take away from breakfast. Professional development credits this hands-on program. are available. For more information, please The workshop will take place indoors email Hazel at [email protected]. and out, and will feature engaging lessons Workshops take place at Great Swamp that introduce and deepen your students’ Watershed Association offices at 568 Tempe understanding of water resource issues. All Wick Road in Morristown unless otherwise activities will relate to core content standards noted. Please register online at www. outlined by the state, and will provide fun, greatswamp.org to attend. hands-on instruction to help your students gain real-world science experience. Use this opportunity to amplify messages about water pollution among your students. The program is suitable for formal and informal educators teaching in grades 3-12 and beyond. This workshop is co-sponsored by GSWA and the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (GSNWR). Professional development credits are available. Please dress appropriately for the weather and for outdoor activity inside GSNWR. GSWA teachers’ workshop, 2009.

8 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Project WET: Generation 2! Workshop Date & time to be announced The Highlands Rediscovered GSWA Offices at 568 Tempe Wick Road, Wine & Movie Night with special guest Julia Somers Morristown Thursday, October 27, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. A brand new version of the amazing GSWA Offices, 568 Tempe Wick Road, Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide Morristown is here!! Attend this workshop and get your copy before they disappear! This three-hour Please join GSWA and special guest refresher is FREE. If you have attended a Julia Somers, Executive Director of previous six-hour Project WET workshop, the New Jersey Highlands Coalition, bring the original guide you received there for a timely screening and discussion and we will exchange it for you. of the movie Highlands Rediscovered. Special registration instructions: Contact This important documentary film Pamela Mayer, NJAES—OCPE c/o Project is a visually captivating exploration W.E.T., 102 Ryders Lane, , NJ of an under-appreciated wilderness, 08901-8519. Phone: (732) 932-9271. Fax: featuring stunning photography of (732) 932-1187. Email: [email protected]. some of New Jersey’s most expansive edu. The course code for this workshop is wooded landscapes. New Jersey’s EW0501CD12.  northern Highlands is the forested region which supplies water for more than four million people in the urban corridor encompassing Newark and Jersey City. The documentary examines Know Someone Who Would Like to how a wilderness region and its natural Become a Member? resources, saved from past abuse, are GSWA relies on members like you to once again threatened by highways and help protect our watershed’s natural development. resources. So please pass this newsletter Program is free for GSWA members. along, and encourage your friends For non-members, the fee is $10 per and neighbors to join us! Visit www. adult, $5 for each child over 5, and $30 greatswamp.org for more information. per family. To register, please visit www. greatswamp .org and click on our secure Event Registration page, or call the GSWA Event Information Line at 973- 538-3500 x22.

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 9 Educational Programs

earn more about what’s going on in Fall Colors Hike in the Great Swamp and around the swamp by joining Watershed friends and members of GSWA for Sunday, September 25, 3:30 – 5 p.m. ourL fall educational programs. We ask that Conservation Management Area, 1 Tiger Lily you pre-register for these programs to learn Lane, Harding Township meeting locations and other information. Please wear sturdy footwear and bring a snack for the walks. Feel free to bring binoculars or wildlife guides if you have them. These programs are free for GSWA members. For non-members, the fee is $10 per adult, $5 for each child over 5, and $30 per family. All fees associated with educational programs held at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge are suggested voluntary donations only. To register, please visit www.greatswamp .org Fall tree and light. Credit: B. Rothauser. and click on our secure Event Registration page, or call the GSWA Event Information The Great Swamp Watershed Association Line at 973-538-3500 x22. owns approximately 50 acres of land in Harding Township, New Jersey, that it maintains as a Conservation Management Area (CMA). This forested wetland contains GSWA Experts Available to Speak to Area Groups vernal pools, streams and woodland that are teeming with wildflowers and wildlife alike. Do you wonder, “What is in my We will take an afternoon stroll along the water?” or “What can I do to ensure recently expanded boardwalk trails, listening clean water for my children?” These and for and watching out for the fabulous other questions about water quality, fall foliage displays of native . Look land preservation and local efforts forward to the season of mists and mellow to protect the environment can be fruitfulness on this easy-paced hike at an answered by GSWA’s Speakers Bureau, important restoration area. who will present interesting, hands- on presentations that will educate and inspire members of your local club or group. Call today for more details: (973) 538-3500 x13. Follow us at www.twitter.com/gswa

10 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Rain Garden Workshop Full Moon Hike at Morristown National Tuesday, October 4, 7 – 8:30 p.m. Historical Park GSWA Offices, 568 Tempe Wick Road, Saturday, December 10, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Morristown GSWA Offices, 568 Tempe Wick Road, Learn more about the benefits of storing Morristown the water that flows from your roof and While we cannot guarantee the moonlight, driveways in a water-quality-improving rain there will be plenty of nature to learn about garden. We will demonstrate the process using on this night hike around the watershed. our very own rain garden. Installed in 2008, We may hear many of the watershed’s wild GSWA’s rain garden feeds a variety of native inhabitants including owls, flying squirrels plants with water diverted from a third of our and perhaps even coyotes calling! Get your office’s roofline. This is an indoor/outdoor senses sharpened as we play some games to program and will be held rain-or-shine. learn more about night senses, and revel in being out after dark without a flashlight! Hot cider and mulled wine will warm us up after we return from our outing.  Introduction to Geocaching Workshop Saturday, November 5, time to be announced GSWA Offices, 568 Tempe Wick Road, Morristown and CMA, 1 Tiger Lily Lane, Harding Township PSEG Gives $15K for Geocaching, a global game of Environmental Education treasure hunting using longitude and latitude coordinates, is a fun- This past June, PSEG Environmental filled adventure for all ages. With a Policy Manager Russ Furnari delivered GPS receiver and Internet access, some fantastic news. PSEG will be you are ready to explore and search supporting all of our environmental for a “geocache”. Join GSWA and the education efforts, including School Northern New Jersey Cachers (NNJC) Water Monitoring on the Passaic as we present a special workshop (SWaMP) in fiscal year 2012! Executive introducing geocaching basics. This Director Sally Rubin gratefully accepted is a great chance for those who know the energy services company’s check for nothing or little about this eco-friendly $15,000 check in support of ongoing sport to learn and experience this GSWA environmental education effort. growing family activity. Thanks Russ! And, thank you PSEG!

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 11 Start Your Day with GSWA

GSWA’s Breakfast Tuesday, November 15: Briefings have returned Fracking: What You Need To Know About after a restful summer Hydraulic Fracturing For Natural Gas vacation! Here’s what we Energy producers extract natural gas by have for you in coming drilling wells into targeted rock formation, months: then filling the wellbores with pressurized fluid. As the surrounding rock cracks under Tuesday, September 13: pressure, natural gas is released at an increased Vegetation and Deer Management at rate and collected for further refinement. This Jockey Hollow Park process, known as hydraulic fracturing, or Jill Hawk, Superintendent of the fracking, is not conducted without potential Morristown National Historical Park, stops danger to water and air quality. In a number by to tell us more about the public scoping of documented cases “fracking fluid” used for process that will help the gas extraction has contaminated groundwater draft a Vegetation and White-tailed Deer and forced uncollected gas and chemical onto Management Plan and Environmental Impact the earth’s surface. Fracking also produces Statement (plan/EIS) for Jockey Hollow. The industrial waste that must be disposed of purpose of the plan/EIS is to address issues with care. While there is no ban on fracking associated with nonnative invasive in the state of New Jersey, Gov. Christie species proliferation that prevents native tree recently proposed a one-year moratorium regeneration; the effects of white-tailed deer on the practice. Please join us as we invite browsing on tree regeneration; and the loss of an expert on fracking, to tell us more about key aspects of the park’s cultural landscape. this controversial extraction technique and Tuesday, October 11: Dealing With Deer In Our Region Emile DeVito from the New Jersey Conservation Foundation stops by to speak with us about deer herds in northern New Jersey and various management techniques that can be used to prevent environmental destruction due to over-grazing. Local deer populations are estimated to exceed 100 deer per square mile, while natural carrying capacity is closer to 10-to-15 deer per square mile. Large deer herds can reduce biodiversity in a region by trampling or consuming native Volunteers install deer fencing at GSWA’s undergrowth. Conservation Management Area, 2005.

12 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org the impact it might have on all New Jersey residents. Speaker to be announced. Please be sure to let us know if you change your e-mail address. Send a note Each Breakfast Briefing is held at GSWA’s with your name, address, and old e-mail office at 568 Tempe Wick Rd., Morristown, address to [email protected] so starting at 8 a.m. A continental breakfast is you don’t miss out on our new monthly included. Donations are appreciated. e-newsletters. Free for members. The fee for non- members is $10 per adult, $5 for each child five and over, and $30 per family. Please pre-register by visiting www. greatswamp.org, or call our Event Info Line at 973-538-3500 x22. 

Protecting Our Waters and Our Land: An Exhibit Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Great Swamp Watershed Association Opening Reception: December 2, 2011, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2011 through January 27, 2012 Location: Studio 7, 5 Morristown Road, Bernardsville, NJ & Bernardsville Public Library, 1 Anderson Hill Road, Bernardsville, NJ Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery and GSWA have invited selected artists to submit oils, watercolors, pastels and photographs reflective of the organization’s accomplishments over the last 30 years. A portion of proceeds taken from the sale of exhibition pieces will go to GSWA. Please join the Board of Trustees and staff of the Great Swamp Watershed Association at an opening reception to be held on December 2 between 6 and 9 p.m. at Studio 7, 5 Morristown Road in Bernardsville, NJ. Additional information will be made available on GSWA’s website. For more information, please call GSWA at 973-538-3500 or write to [email protected]. For questions about the exhibition or submissions, please contact Kathleen Palmer at Studio 7, 908-963-0365, [email protected], or Ben Wolkowitz, 973-765-9056, [email protected].

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 13 Indicator Species by Blaine Rothauser, CMA Biologist f you go for a walk in the heart of the In our neck of the watershed we can Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge use the critters found within the nooks (GSNWR) you unavoidably traverse and crannies of our backyard streams as Imany different types of natural landscapes: indicators of local environmental quality. uplands, wetlands, meadow, and flood plain. The presence or absence of certain If you walk outside the refuge you might macroinvertabrates–tiny bugs, like mayflies, come across one or more of these natural caddisflies and stoneflies–in our waterways mosaics, along with another—the human- would indicate good water quality. These created landscape. The raindrop that finds six-legged “canaries in the coal mine” fare its way to the refuge through the downward well in clean-flowing, highly oxygenated forces of gravity defines the boundaries of waters. If your stream is dominated by our Great Swamp Watershed. Inevitably, the the presence of low-oxygen-tolerant bugs, drops combine to become free-flowing water. midge larvae for example, this may indicate This water now must travel through one of the poor water quality. Keep in mind that the forementioned habitats before a biological range of pollution and low-oxygen tolerance process consumes it, a wetland stores it, amongst aquatic organisms runs the gamut. or a tributary passes it along to another Limnologists–those scientists who study destination. If it is our job as land stewards to freshwater systems–use as many indicator protect the destiny of all this water, then we species as they can find in any given study need a tool to monitor its health and well- area in order to make their final data more being. Welcome in the “indicator species.” meaningful. The termindicator species is loosely The example above shows how groups defined, and the usefulness of any single of living organisms can be useful to evaluate definition may vary. Broadly clarified, the environmental integrity of an abiotic or indicator species are plants and animals non-living factor like water using biotic or that, by their presence, abundance, lack living things as a kind of barometer. There of abundance or condition, demonstrate is another example that deals strictly with some distinctive aspect of the character or the biotic world. If we work on evaluating quality of an environment. For instance, an area of true swamp—what ecologists call certain species of mustard plants are good “flooded timber”—we can assess the general bioaccumulators of heavy metal. A large health of a forest patch within the GSNWR. concentration of metal absorbed by mustard Our scientists might start by looking for plant tissue could be a useful indicator of cavity-nesting birds in springtime. They ground contamination. In this case, the would nest amongst the snags of dying and mustard is the biological entity that harbors dead trees within the swamp proper. By the metric you want to gauge. noting the presence of tree swallows, red-

14 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org bellied woodpeckers, bluebirds, and great from human disturbance. In this example, crested flycatchers displaying around tree it is the presence and absence of a variety holes, they would find an excellent sign of of indicator species, both native and non- a vigorous swamp in good ecological order native, that allow us to weigh the ecologic where food webs are functioning at levels health of the study habitat. necessary to support such diversity. In this Indicator species are used as a proxy case, it is the cavity-nesting birds that are to diagnose the health of ecosystems. the indicators. Conversely, if this same area They can be very useful instruments for measuring everything from the health of cloud forests to judging ambient air quality. To a conservation biologist like me this is all very titillating stuff! (I’ll give you a second to let the goose bumps settle.) Interestingly, some indicator species can tell us at a glance something about the geology where they live. For instance, certain plants change color depending upon the specific mineral conditions of the soil where they grow. The Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) on Pokeweed (genus: Phytolacca). Credit: Blaine Rothauser. next time you are out running or biking, just look at the abundance of non-native was devoid of these animals, or if a negative plants along the edge of the road. This is indicator species like the European starling a good indicator of poor soil quality and dominated the habitat, our scientists could disturbance. conclude that our patch of swamp is not Researchers use field work, historical functioning to its maximum ecologic records, and other known information about potential. Further analysis of the study plants and animals when interpreting which area might focus on other bioindicators. species make good indicators for measuring If this same habitat had a rich population particular environmental variables. In of obligate, wetland-loving plants—those turn, those studies help us make prudent that require wetland conditions to live— decisions on setting limits for how much like cardinal flower, blue vervain, arrow buffer a wetland requires to sustain normal arum, jewelweed and water hemlock, then background levels of biodiversity, or even the combination of these indicator species how much salt we can spread on wintertime taken alongside the presence of starlings roads before surrounding water ways falter might lead to the conclusion that wetlands and drinking water is threatened. In the end, surrounding the swamp need greater buffers (continued on page 21)

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 15 GSWA Announces Changes to its Board of Trustees, Staff

GSWA extends a warm welcome to the Crocco recently moved to Iowa where his newest member of our Board of Trustees, wife will be pursuing a wonderful new career Astri Baillie. Astri joined the board in March opportunity. Although no longer on our 2011. As a former Council Member for Board, longtime supporter and avid garden Madison Borough, Astri brings with her a club member Pat Moody continues to wealth of knowledge about local municipal support GSWA. government as well as a deep understanding Recent months have also brought of our watershed communities. changes to GSWA’s staff roster. We are We are sorry to say goodbye to two pleased to introduce you to the following board members who recently stepped down people each of whom play an essential role from their positions. A loyal supporter and in our day-to-day operations. frequent volunteer at our CMA, Robert (continued on page 25)

A Civil Action: Wine & Movie Night with Special Guest Jan Schlichtmann Date, time and location to be announced Join us for movie night and meet his reputation and his law firm. Despite renowned personal injury attorneythese setbacks, Schlichtmann’s efforts Jan Schlichtmann. Schlichtmann’s suit eventually lead the U.S. Environmental against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Co. Protection Agency to file a successful, over chemical contamination in Woburn, multi-million-dollar class-action against Massachussets, became the subject of the polluting corporations. Jonathan Harr’s award-winning, non- Following the movie, Mr. fiction exposé titledA Civil Action. In Schlichtmann will lead a conversation 1998, the story was adapted for the silver about the film and his environmental screen and starred actor John Travolta. work. Please visit www.greatswamp.org The filmA Civil Action follows the story for updated event date or call 973-538- of the families of children who died of 3500. leukemia after exposure to an illegally To register, please visit www. dumped, carcinogenic solvent known greatswamp.org and click on our secure as trichloroethylene. Travolta portrays Event Registration page, or call the GSWA Schlichtmann, whose work on behalf of Event Information Line at 973-538-3500 the victims’ families eventually destroys x22.

16 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org The Times They are A-changing at the CMA by Hazel England, GSWA Director of Education and Outreach ometimes change is subtle, demon­ better defined—more pleasant, and less muddy. strating itself in incremental alter­ations These trail improvements were no mean that only the keenest observer will feat. Several of our mulching workdays took notice.S Sometimes change is overwhelming, place in June when sweltering temperatures with massive and substantial differences only of 90°F or above reigned supreme. So, enjoy the oblivious could miss. The work undertaken the springiness under your step as you hike. It at GSWA’s Conservation Manage­ment Area came at a high sweat-equity rate! (CMA) this spring and summer most definitely The biggest and most impressive falls under the latter variety! change at the CMA this year is the recently We have already hosted ten corporate completed trail expansion. That’s right; workdays and amassed 1,400 volunteer GSWA has almost doubled the total trail hours at the CMA this year. The sheer pace length! Thanks to an easement granted of habitat restorations is by Harding Land Trust, quickening. the extension finally More than 1,700 native allows hikers to take in trees, shrubs and herbac­ the site’s beautiful swamp eous seedlings have been forest area also known as lovingly planted at the site the Case property. in 2011. Many of these If you want to find the recent additions sport new CMA trail, just head jaunty pink or orange Corporate volunteers clear debris and put toward Silver Brook. scarves that show their finishing touches on boardwalks along the Once you cross the water, ‘new’ status and allow us new trail system at GSWA’s Conservation follow the trail onto the Management Area, July 2011. to track survivorship at the Case property where you CMA. Our native newc­omers replace invasives will wind your way between vernal pools, from other lands that have been removed and among mature oak, hickory and beech trees; turned into wildlife-enhancing brush piles. and alongside an understory of sweet pepper Although Japanese honeysuckle and multiflora bush and blueberry. Remember, the trail rose do not provide much benefit while is still in creation. It’s still getting haircuts, growing, they make wonderful overwinter blazes and waiting for a final grooming. Even homes for insects and small when so, it is well-defined and completes a loop turned into dense-cut brush piles. before returning you to the Silver Brook There are other obvious changes too. Two- crossing. I invite and encourage you to walk thirds of the earthen trails around the CMA our new trail system and see the results of a property are newly carpeted in a thick layer of season of changes for yourself. Yeah, change mulch. This makes walking easier—paths are is definitely good sometimes! 

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 17 Chemical Assessment Program Begins on Upper Passaic River by Laura Kelm, GSWA Director of Water Quality Programs n February 2011, under the auspices of the Adopt-a-Stream program, Great Swamp Watershed Association began Ia three-year study of the water quality of the Upper Passaic River. This study was modeled on similar programs completed along Loantaka Brook (2005-2007) and Great Brook (2008-2010). Under this new assessment program, water quality will be sampled at Upper Passaic sites four times per year. Quarterly sampling allows us to capture seasonal variability in parameters, such as temperature and total dissolved solids. Six sampling sites were set up throughout the reach of the Passaic River, including two along important tributaries. Four of the six sites are sampled annually by Lee Pollock as part of his macroinvertebrate study. One site was previously sampled by the former Ten GSWA’s chemical sampling sites along the Upper Towns Committee. One site is a former USGS Passaic River. sampling site. Focusing on sites that have water temperature, and stream flow. Taken already been used to monitor water quality together, all of these measurements give us provides us with historical information that a good idea of the health of the stream as it can be compared with observations taken flows through the watershed. in the present. Our sampling site located Since we are still in the early stages of on Penn’s Brook (behind Bernards High this three-year study, it is too soon to see School) was chosen because it will allow us trends in the data. However, the two rounds to measure the effects of stormwater runoff of sampling that have been completed from nearby shopping centers. and analyzed do give us some insight into Once we collect our water samples, we a potential environmental issue. Penn’s send them to a laboratory to be analyzed Brook exceeded the permitted New Jersey for concentrations of several parameters, State Surface Water Quality Standards for including total dissolved solids, total total dissolved solids (TDS) and chloride suspended solids, and different forms in February 2011, and came very close to of nitrogen and phosphorous. We also exceeding the standard for TDS again in measure several parameters in the field May. including pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, (continued on page 21)

18 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Meet the New Neighbors

by Jim Northrop, GSWA Land Use Committee Member and Volunteer am a GSWA volunteer. Last week we plants, but they have never heard of pizza. I’m had an early evening meeting. It was going to call them over. Please do not spoil hot and sticky; dusk had come as the their lesson by yelling at them or throwing Imeeting adjourned. As I walked out of the something at us.” GSWA building toward my car, I noticed a I did not have to be told twice. I knew large black object up the hill near the woods. that a mother black bear will get very violent, OMG—it was a large black bear sniffing her if necessary, to protect her young cubs. So, I way toward our garbage cans. I remembered just stood there quietly and watched. Oh, that the night before, we had been guests how I wished I had brought a camera! here at a GSWA volunteer appreciation party. Ten minutes later, they had shredded Pizza was the main culinary the pizza boxes and feasted attraction, and discarded pizza on every last crust they could boxes (holding a few bits of find. The mother bear looked uneaten pizza crust) would over at me and saw that I was have smelled good even to me! not a threat, so she began a I froze, and the bear conversation. cautiously came closer. I “I’m new to these parts,” know that black bears are fast she said. “I grew up in Sussex runners, even though they are County, but recently there’s the largest land in been so much residential New Jersey—in fact, I am told development up there. A lot of they can overtake a running new bears have moved in too. I

deer when they want to. I did Credit: istock.com/jimkruger. had to find a new home. I had not want to give the bear any to go where the people had cause for attacking me. I stood frozen and not yet thought to guard their garbage from still. curious, hungry animals like me. So, here I A few steps later the bear stopped, looked am, and I am loving it!” at me and said, “I smell pizza. Can we share?” Remembering that a black bear’s choice By this time I was the only volunteer of home range is largely determined by the around—the others had gone home. I types and availability of food, I wondered wished for someone else there who could what she liked to eat when no pizza crusts assure me that the heat had not made me were handy. crazy. Could this really be a talking bear?!! “Well,” she said, “most of the time I eat Then I heard the bear speak again. plants—especially their berries, fruit and “I have two cubs with me, and my job is nuts—but, I also like insects. You know, to teach them how to live off the land. They finding an ant hill is really a treat.” know about berries and small succulent (continued on page 24) www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 19 What the Bugs Have to Tell Us: Results from the 2010 Macroinvertebrate Study by Laura Kelm, GSWA Director of Water Quality Programs enthic macroinvertebrates are samples macroinvertebrates at 17 sites small animals living spread among Loantaka Brook, Great Brook, on stream bottoms. They might be Black Brook, Primrose Brook, the Passaic Bthe larvae or nymphs of terrestrial animals, River, and Indian Grave Brook (a tributary like , or they may spend their of the Passaic River). Using set indices, Dr. entire lives as aquatic animals, like crayfish. Pollock rates the health of each site and each Either way, these macroinvertebvrates stream from “good” to “very poor.” (MIVs) spend anywhere from a few weeks Of the 17 sites surveyed in 2010, five to several years living in a stream, often in ranked “good,” one ranked “fair,” six were the same general location. Furthermore, “poor,” and five were “very poor.” While some MIVs are fairly tolerant of pollutants those rankings appear troubling, 10 of the while others are very sensitive to them. sites actually improved or retained their Taking into account the time they spend in rating from 2009 with gains seen at all sites streams and the pollution tolerance of MIV on Black Brook, two sites on Loantaka species, you can get a good picture of water Brook, and two sites on Primrose Brook. quality at a stream site by surveying the MIV The seven remaining sites decreased in community found there. rating. The most significant decreases took Dr. Lee Pollock, a retired Drew place on Great Brook (two sites), Loantaka University professor, has been conducting Brook (one site), and on the Passaic River an annual survey of macroinvertebrate (one site). communities around the Great Swamp After looking at the site rankings for each Watershed for 10 years. Every spring, he stream over the last 10 years, they all showed some degree of variability, improving or degrading, from year to year. Black Brook and Loantaka Brook showed little overall change, while Great Brook showed a modest improvement since 2001. Sampling sites on the Passaic River and Primrose Brook also showed some improvement. The sites on Indian Grave Brook and one site on the Upper Passaic River have continually received high marks. For detailed information about the

Dr. Lee Pollock and Dr. Caroline Maier collect annual macroinvertebrate study and 2010 macroinvertebrate samples from a local stream, May results, check out www.greatswamp.org!  2011.

20 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Upper Passaic (continued from page 18) Winter Roads Maintenance Workshop Wednesday, November 16, 8 to 10 a.m. Certain levels of TDS naturally occur in GSWA Offices, 568 Tempe Wick Road, water and result from ions dissolving into a Morristown stream as it runs over rocks and soils. Those Landscapers, maintenance crews, ions can include magnesium, potassium, snow plowing contractors and other and calcium. Unnaturally high levels of total interested individuals are invited to join dissolved solids can affect aquatic animals’ us for an in-depth discussion of best- cells and can even cause death. Based on past management practices for winter road work conducted by GSWA’s former Director and driveway de-icing. Water quality of Water Quality Programs, Kelley Curran, testing that GSWA completed between and Stream Team volunteer Roger Edwards, 2005 and 2007 revealed especially we know that sodium and chloride are the high amounts of sodium and chloride main components of TDS in our watershed. in Loantaka Brook—two primary Not coincidentally, they also form the main components of runoff from paved components of road salt. surfaces treated with salt. De-icing also Although salt is applied to roads during allows sand to wash into streams where winter months, TDS concentrations remained it lowers oxygen levels and harms plants high in May because that salt tends to persist in and wildlife. This workshop will focus the soil and is released slowly by rain showers. on technologies and techniques for At the time this article was written in August reducing environmental damage while 2011, we are preparing to collect our next successfully removing snow and ice round of water samples. We are quite interested from paved surfaces. to see how high the TDS level will be. Program is free for GSWA members. In the mean time, as you begin to think For non-members, the fee is $10 per about the coming winter’s snow, keep in adult, $5 for each child over 5, and $30 mind that any excess salt you put down on per family. To register, please visit www. your property eventually makes its way greatswamp .org and click on our secure into our local streams. Try to use manual Event Registration page, or call the snow removal techniques, like shoveling, GSWA Event Information Line at 973- and apply salt sparingly where needed. The  538-3500 x22. aquatic life will thank you!

Indicator Species (continued from page 15) Become a fan of GSWA everything you see around you on a saunter and join the cause on in the woods are potentially indicator species. Take enough time to become intimate with a plant or animal’s life history, come to understand the upper and lower limitations of its natural potential, and you will know something about the place or places it calls home.  www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 21 What A Difference Two Years Make: A Round-up Of BioBlitz 2011 by Hazel England, GSWA Director of Education and Outreach hat do the great blue heron, the group of people, searching with similar vigor blue-spotted salamander and the on a similar day only two years apart might blue flag iris all have in common? see similar species, but you’d be wrong! In GiveW up? No, this is not the beginning to a a Bioblitz, seeking out wildlife is only half bad joke, but a list of three species with the the fun. The other half is trying to figure distinction of appearing at both our 2009 out why a particular species appeared in and our 2011 BioBlitz events at Great Swamp such large numbers in 2009, but was absent National Wildlife Refuge (GSNWR). in 2011. Did you search in different places Great Swamp Watershed each time? Was the time of Association (GSWA), in day different? Did you have partnership with GSNWR and more team members in 2009? the Friends of Great Swamp, Was last winter rougher than held these two intensive usual? Was this past spring twenty-four hour surveys at wetter? All of these factors, the Refuge to focus a spotlight and many others, play a part on local biodiversity. During in determining why our teams both, professional biologists, saw a particular species two interested amateurs, staff, and year ago that did not reappear assorted raggle-taggle interns this year. and volunteers donned their BioBlitz 2011, which was Bioblitz t-shirts, broke into held in late June, took place survey teams, and fanned out Birding expert Emile DeVito almost a month later in the year listens for identifiable songs across the swamp in search of during an early morning than BioBlitz 2009 which was their quarry. Each team was BioBlitz excursion into Great held in early May. This means tasked with instructions to Swamp National Wildlife that seasonal environmental Refuge, June 2011. Credit: Ari find and report on one type Kaufman. conditions and the behavior of wildlife (scientists call this of some wildlife species were a taxon), and each set out to comb every quite different between years. For instance, nook and cranny of the Swamp hoping for the warblers that the 2009 BioBlitz birding a glimpse of one of their target plants and team described as “dripping from every tree,” animals. Upon returning to BioBlitz base did not make themselves known to the same camp, they brought with them a wealth of team in 2011. Why? Because the birds from scientific observations and data. 2009 were still migrating to their breeding If it flew, grew, crawled, walked, or grounds throughout the Northeast region. swam, and it was spotted by our scientists, The relative absence of warblers in 2011 GSWA tallied it and added it to our BioBlitz suggested that, by the month of June, the database. You might think that a similar birds had already finished their migration

22 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org and established nesting territories. Similar circumstances held between years for many bird species. While almost 100 different bird types were spotted in 2009, less than 80 species, most of them resident (non- migratory) animals, appeared on our list in 2011. Despite these discrepancies between 2009 and 2011, adding together overlapping observation tallies from both years gives us a more complete picture of the Great Swamp’s An specimen collection tray at BioBlitz 2011. bird species. Credit: Ari Kaufman. Differences between Bioblitz years also turned up in the insect world. In many cases micro , and ground beetles instead. the changes observed among these taxons About 100 different species of these animals related to composition of our survey teams were observed. The insect count GSWA has rather than seasonal variation in behavior. accumulated over the course of two study With the number of insect species being years is amazing. Even so, we have barely so vast, most biologists who study them scratched the surface of true insect diversity specialize in studying a particular sub-group at the Refuge and more work will be required of animals. Since the same scientists are not in this area. This year’s insect specimens be present at every BioBlitz, the composition will continue providing information well of our insect survey team changed from event beyond what we have recorded. Each one to event. Changes in team composition result will be housed at the Philadelphia Academy in changes in our observation list because of Sciences and will be made available to different scientists will observe and identify researchers for future study. different types of insects. While snapshot surveys like GSWA’s When we added the number of insect BioBlitz are easily written off as too hit-or- species observed in 2009 and the number miss to give a true picture of the wildlife observed in 2011, our cumulative species inhabiting an area, there is real merit in count was huge. As a result of survey team having a group of experts search the same composition, there was almost no overlap place at the same time for the same reason! in observed insect species between years, The refuge—in all its 7,700 acre glory—does and only a few insect types species were not easily reveal its secrets. Nevertheless, observed at each event. In 2009, bee, ant, and a close study of the data does reveal which experts identified about 240 different species are more likely to be seen in each species in their designated insect families. Refuge zone. Just like the blood test taken In 2011, our specialists studied crane flies, (continued on page 25) www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 23 New Neighbors (continued from page 19) “I also like mice and other small her mate coming from another part of the mammals, and delicacies like the white- woods. He was coming to investigate all the tailed deer carcass I found the other day.” commotion. “I do not come across those tasty bits The appearance of the second bear did very often, but I am not choosy—any fresh not surprise me much. You see, I had read roadkill will do just fine. But, I am getting a once that black bears have a remarkable sense bit spoiled from so much food. You humans of smell, and that they have been known to call it garbage, but I think it’s great!“ smell a source of food more than two miles “My cubs have begun to associate away. They are also known for their good garbage with people—not that they want to hearing and can see very well; although, they actually eat people, but if they smell humans are said to be a bit near-sighted. Their ability around they assume that some tasty ‘garbage’ to see in color helps them forage for those is nearby.” fruits and berries they like so much. “Sometimes this creates a problem. As her mate approached, my new friend When my cubs approach, people get said, “I have to go.” frightened. They think the cubs will try to “My mate gets very upset when we do make them their meal. You see, sometimes not save some good food for him, and my bears are completely misunderstood.” cubs and I have licked this area clean!” I felt sorry for the bear and her cubs. As she turned to leave, I waved her After all, humans also get into trouble by a goodbye and wished her family a safe misunderstanding the intentions of others. journey.  “I am sorry you can’t be spared this grief,” I said, “but you should know that there are conservationists around who want to end No Water, No Life the misunderstanding between people and Sunday, November 6 bears. They get other people to stop leaving Clarence Dillon Library, Bedminster, NJ their food and garbage around outside as Water, not oil and gas, is the crucial ‘bait’. In fact, in New Jersey, people can be scarce resource on our planet. Five punished with a fine for feeding the bears.” billion people worldwide lack good “That’s very kind,” she said with a smile, water, and this number will rapidly “except that educating will mean no more multiply without concerted action. pizza!” Alison Jones, dynamic Project Director “My favorite food is not really pizza, for the international NO WATER NO anyway. I love finding a good-sized beehive. LIFE organization, will engage us and You see, my fur is bee proof, and the challenge us. Presentation takes place occasional sting on the nose is well worth the on Sunday, November 6 at 2:00 p.m. $5 sweet honey I usually find inside.” admission, pay at door. Please enroll in About then, I noticed a very large shadow advance. Call 908-234-2325 or write to moving toward us from the woods. The black [email protected]. bear noticed it, too, and told me that it was

24 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org BioBlitz (continued from page 23) at your annual physical, BioBlitz data acts attendance, whether they travelled into the like a benchmark or baseline. Specific field or attended one of our 18 educational ailments and broader patterns of health programs, learned much about the plants and can be established when cumulative results animals that call GSNWR home. And just are studied over a long period. Given time, think, all of this amazing biological diversity a series of BioBlitz events may turn up an lives right here in our own backyard. unexpected or unusual specimen of note, or For more insight into BioBlitz 2011 and a species expected, but not seen, could point all the activities involved, please check out to a change in environmental conditions. our BioBlitz photo gallery located at www. A brief round-up of the 2011 BioBlitz flickr.com/photos/gswa. A complete list does little justice to how great it was to see of species sighting for BioBlitz 2011 will more than 50 professionals and interested appear after September 6 on GSWA’s website amateurs work alongside volunteers located at www.greatswamp.org.  and members of the public. Everyone in

From the Desk (continued from page 5) Board and Staff Changes (continued from page 16) you register early for Breakfast Briefings, Laura Kelm joined our team in April environmental education programs, teacher 2011, stepping into the role of Director of workshops and movie nights so you do not Water Quality Programs formerly held by miss out! You can register online at www. Kelley Curran. greatswamp.org. Debbie Rice came onboard as our Office Our 30th Anniversary Gala takes place Manager in May 2011. on Thursday, October 13, at the Westin Steve Reynolds joined the staff in Governor Morris in Morristown. Make sure June 2011, stepping up as our Director you save the date! You can even RSVP on of Communications and Membership line. following the departure of Debra Dolan. P.S. Since writing this letter, Hurricane Sue Levine stepped up as our Director of Irene swept through the east coast. The full Finance following the departure of Sharon effects are still being felt. Many people lost McCann in July 2011.  power, lost trees, and even lost belongings and homes. Mother Nature reminded us just how powerful she is and how much respect she deserves. While I don’t think there is anything more we could have done to Interested in volunteering? minimize the devastation and havoc, I think Fill out our volunteer profile at www. it is a strong reminder of how important it greatswamp.org/VolProfile.htm, or e-mail is to protect our rivers and floodplains and [email protected]. prepare for changing weather patterns. 

www.greatswamp.org Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years 25 Welcome New Members

Special thanks to the following donors who became members of GSWA between February 5, 2011 and August 25, 2011:

Girl Scout Troop 1095 Ms. Angela B. Gannon Ms. Patricia L. Peterson Ms. Sophia Powell Adams Loren Godfrey Ms. Katherine Pfeil Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Bell Ms. Barbara Hart Ms. Emily Price Mr. John Benvent Mr. & Mrs. Bob Hecht Hilary Prouty Ms. Betsy Bernard Ms. Amy Henderson Mr. Steve Rasch Ms. Judith Bernstein Ms. Barbara Hiller Ms. Eileen Rath Ms. Colleen Bondy Mr. & Mrs. Mark and Beth Ms. Terri Reynolds Mrs. Beth Brabston Hopkins Ms. Rosalind Rothman Mr. Jon Bramnick Mr. Greg Hubbard Ms. Stacey Rudbart Robert Broege Ms. Kim Hubbard Mr. Bruce Sagan Mr. & Mrs. Paul Broshek Ms. Ann M. Hunter Henry Savage Mr. & Mrs. W. Stanley Brown Mr. & Mrs. George R. Gibson, III Mr. William Scholz Ms. K. Bunnell Edward W. Kelly, III Mr. & Mrs. Jack Schrier Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Rebecca John M. Brown, III Ms. Eileen Scott Campbell Ms. Tatiana Ivanova Mr. Eric Siber Mr. Brian A. Cap Mr. Noah Jacobson Ms. Arline Siegel Mr. & Mrs. Michael Caulfield Mr. Frederick W. Jarvis Ms. Nermene Simaika Ms. Amy M. Chapman Ms. Arundahti Johri Mr. Robert Singer Ms. Kerry Chappelear Ms. Cynthia Joseph-Green Ms. Dawn M. Skoczylas Ms. Sharon M. Cirillo Mark & Mirjan Kator Mr. Steve Skrobacz Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Clark Mr. Ariel Kaufman Mr. Louis Sobotka Chester Garden Club Mr. Thomas Klemm Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas and Susan Joanne & Gary Cogswell Ms. Marjut Kokkola-Korpela Soldivieri Ms. Cynthia Colavita Mr. John Krizko Ms. Elizabeth Starr Ms. Nancy Cook Ms. Libby Lennox Susan Storch Mr. Marc Coopersmith Ms. Deborah Lewinson Ms. Kerry Stubbs Jeanette & Hunter Corbin Ms. Claribel Liriano Ms. Nancy Sugahara Jamie Costello Mr. William Lloyd Ms. Dorothy D. Tagliente Ms. Darlene Dobry Mr. Philip Lobo Pamela Thompson Ms. Dori Dowling Ms. Linda J. Lynch Mr. Joel S. Townsend Ms. Jan Draper Mr. Steven Manket Ms. Rosa De La Rosa Urtula Ms. Missy Durham Ms. Carolyn Mason Ms. Katherine Vail Ms. Lisa Dyen Mr. John McCue Mr. Mitchell R. Waldor Barbara & Bill Eames Ms. Bonnie McGhee Ms. Peggy Walsh Mr. Glenn D. Engel Ms. Susan McIlvaine Mr. & Mrs. Ted Wheeler Ms. Sara Erb Mrs. Ann Michels Ms. Nancy Wilson Mary Carroll & Family Mr. William Mindel Ms. Barbara Worley Mr. Vincent Farley Bill & Mary Moodie Mr. & Mrs. Walter Wright Mr. Joseph Fleming Mr. Mark Mulvaney Mr. Brian Zucker Mr. & Mrs. Olin Friant Ms. Patricia Neil GSWA also thanks those new members who wish to remain anonymous.

26 Protecting our waters and our land for 30 years www.greatswamp.org Chairman’s Appeal Donors

GSWA would like to thank the following members and contributors who gave so generously to our 2011 Chairman’s appeal: Mr. Christopher Alberth Mr. & Mrs. Martin Gruen Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Nilson Mr. & Mrs. Byron Arison Mr. & Mrs. G. Ward Haefelein Mr. & Mrs. James Northrop Mr. & Mrs. Jack & Melanie Atkins Dr. Thomas Hakes Ms. Margaret Packie Ms. Adrienne Petite Auerbach Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Harding Mr. & Mrs. Peter Pefanis Mr. Giorgio Balzer Mrs. Elizabeth Healy Mr. Geoffrey F. Peters Mr. Samir Bannerji Lee Henig-Elona Mr. Rich Petersen Mr. Raymond Beegle Mr. & Mrs. Richard Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Carmine Petti Ms. Moira Blake Ms. Gayle Chamberlin Hoyt Mr. & Mrs. J. John Quinn Mr. & Mrs. William I. Blanchard Mr. Daniel B. Smith, III Mr. & Mrs. Orlando Raimondo Ms. Helen Blank Mr. & Mrs. Harold Imperatore Mr. & Mrs. Ravi Reddy Ms. Candice Bolte Mr. Edward A. Schroeder, IV Ms. Susan Reich Ms. Colleen Bondy Mr. Ronald Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Santucci Mr. Bill Burress Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Scanlon Ms. Jonna Cali Mr. Bruce Jordan Mr. & Mrs. William Scheuerman Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Cameron Mr. William T. McCutcheon, Jr. Ms. Dorothea Schlosser Mr. & Mrs. William Carifa Governor Thomas H. Kean Ms. Karen Shea Mr. & Mrs. Verner H. Condon Mr. Louis Keefe Mr. Matthias Sheeleigh Mr. Donald R. Conklin Dr. Terry Kidner Mr. & Mrs. M. Alden Siegel Mr. Robert Courtemanche Mrs. Helene Kranichfeld Ms. Edith D. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Coutts Mr. Howard Lemberg Dr. Gilbert B. Solitare Mr. & Mrs. Robert Crocco Mr. & Mrs. Paige L’Hommedieu Mr. & Mrs. Richard Southern Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Drumbore Ms. Claribel Liriano Ms. Elizabeth Starr Ms. Patricia Dufort Mr. & Mrs. Thomas MacCowatt Mr. Paul G. Steck Mr. Roger Edwards Miss P.J. MacDougall Mr. Peter Steger Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Elmendorf, Mr. & Mrs. Jeanne & James Dr. Michael S. Stewart III Manley Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Strahs Ms. Linda L. Fagerstrom Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Marino Mr. & Mrs. Chris Strutt Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Fast Mr. & Mrs. Brian Markley Mr. & Mrs. Caesar Sweitzer Ms. Eileen Feurey Mr. William Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Varney Mr. Oliver D. Filley Mr. & Mrs. William Martin Mr. & Mrs. Clark D. Wagner Mr. Joseph Fleming Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. McGee Mr. & Mrs. William O. Watts Mr. & Mrs. Bentley Fredane Ms. Nancy McLure Mrs. Janet Weaver Ms. Natalie M. Gallagher Mr. & Mrs. John M. McNamara Ms. Barbara Weeks Mr. Gerald Gennario Ms. Patricia McPherson Ms. Linda Van Wert Mr. James R. Gillen Ms. Suzanne L. Miller Ms. Barbara Westergaard Ms. Anne Glasser Mr. Jeffrey Miller Mr. & Mrs. Alan Willemsen Ms. Sally Glick Mr. John M. Mucciolo Dr. & Mrs. R Cameron Witt Ms. Kathy Grano Mr. George Murray Mr. Joel A. Wolff Ms. Eileen Grimm Mr. & Mrs. Harry & Elizabeth Mr. & Mrs. John Groot Newell We also thank those donors who chose to remain anonymous.

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