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Ambassador Program New Jersey Pinelands Ambassador Program New Jersey Jaclyn Rhoads John Volpa Ryan Rebozo The New Jersey Pinelands Pine Barren Ecology Stevenswater.com USGS About PPA • Founded in 1989 • Based at the Bishop Farmstead, Southampton • 12 staff members + volunteers • Focused on protecting the NJ Pinelands Goals • Preserve the Pine Barrens ecosystem, its plants and wildlife, its water, and its landscape throughout the Pinelands National Reserve. • Promote wide public awareness of the values of Pinelands resources and issues involved in their preservation. • Advance permanent acquisition of land and development rights by private and public conservation agencies. 2008-2012 Summer Teacher Institute PPA conducted public hikes & clean-ups in the Black Run Preserve Friends of the Black Run Preserve Southjerseytrails.org Pinelands Adventures 2015- Ambassador Program • Vision • Other Programs • Plan/Goals • Framework • Curriculum • Pilot Project Vision • Training and volunteer program for students and adults Combine all 3 • Pinelands Watch Program • Summer Teacher Institute • Volunteer Program Other Ambassador Programs New Jersey Watershed Rutgers Environmental Stewards Ambassadors • Provides training and • Each year, a new group of experience which equips twenty Watershed participants to contribute Ambassadors engage with effectively to the process of community members finding solutions for • Assigned to organizations, environmental problems in municipalities, schools, etc. the communities of New • Paid by state, non-advocacy Jersey • Provided through Rutgers University http://www.nj.gov/dep/wms/bea • Not site specific rs/americorps.htm http://envirostewards.rutgers.ed u/ Goals • Short-term – Written Plan for Ambassador Program – Social Media sites – Facebook/Instagram – Pilot Program in Black Run Preserve – students/teachers – Use Ambassadors to help restore site • Long-term – Volunteer corps • Student track • Adult track Framework • Expert consultant • Strategy Session • Strategic Planning Document Curriculum • Teacher resources • Student lessons in classroom and field work • Unifying project Potential Pilots • Black Run Preserve – Students and Teachers • Wharton State Forest – Community Members and Public Employees • Town of Hammonton – Schools, Residents, and Municipal Officials Local School Leadership • DeMasi Middle School teacher, Maureen Heenan, attended PPA’s Summer Teacher Institute. • She embraced the educational and service learning opportunities the Black Run Preserve offers. Professional Support • DeMasi Principal, Irene Romanelli, provided whole-hearted support for the creation of a program for six 7th grade special needs students. • Classroom teacher, Mary Corradino, built her curriculum around the program. Goal #1: To become proficient in Pine Barrens ecology • Four classroom lessons were conducted the day before field events. • Students received Field Guides, notebooks, and binders of worksheets. • Example: Watershed models made in the classroom the day before the Batsto River trip. Batsto River Trip Immersed in pristine Pine Barrens Experiential Learning, reinforced within the classroom, developed individual confidence. • DeMasi Ambassadors Program 2-24-16 • Wintertime • Ecology Concepts Review & Overview for Tomorrow’s Hike in Wharton State Forest programming also • The P____________________ N______________ R______________ is 1.1 million acres. It’s managed by the Pinelands Commission. focused upon outdoor • • The P__________ B_____________ is 1.3 million acres. skills. It’s the name of the unique ecosystem. The Black Run Preserve is part of the PNR and the ecosystem. • Hikes in Wharton State • A ridge forms the dividing line between the • w________________s flowing west to the Delaware River (I__________ Coastal Pl_______) and the Forest and in the Black w_________________s flowing east to the Atlantic Ocean (O________ Coastal Pl___________). • Run Preserve. • Tomorrow we’ll be hiking from the Mullica River edge to the Batsto River edge. We’ll find ______________ plants such as cranberry, inkberry, and leatherleaf along • Comparisons of upland each river. • • The trails are on high ground (_____________). There & wetland habitats. we’ll see pine, oak, & holly. Survival skills on the trail. Recording impressions of an Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Native Pine Barrens aquatic species • Field trips in the Black Run Preserve to identify native fish and frogs. • Recognizing certain species as bioindicators of pristine conditions. • Spotted turtles, carpenter frogs, blackbanded sunfish, & mudminnows verify classic PB conditions. Goal #2: To become confident enough to conduct a public guided hike. • May 26, 2016-Evesham • June 4, 2016-National Township Schools Board Trails Day. The of Education meeting. Ambassadors conduct The Ambassadors guided hikes in the BRP present powerpoint for 37 guests. presentations of their • Part of the tours include research of Pine information about the Barrens fauna. nonnative phragmites • They handout BRP and the restoration maps & information to project. the over 100 attendees. Restoration Project Repeated Mowing Monitoring North Basin 575m 20.1 stems m2 11,500 stems South Basin 4965m2 12.1 stems m2 60,000 stems Seeding Effort http://pinelands.wpengine.com/ Social Media and Website • Utilize Facebook • Video footage • Ambassador Web page • Integrate to New PPA website Future Work • Applying the framework • Creating new website • Other locations • Personnel Framework Pilots in the works • Wharton State Forest • Brendan Byrne State Forest .
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