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Pinelands Adventures Logo in Front of This Lovely Image of the Batsto River by Photographer Ernest Cozens April/May 2015 Volume 22 Number 3 New Project to Document ORV Damage . 3 PPA’s New Director of Conservation Science . 4 PPA MEMBERandum Charles Caruso . 6 Pinelands Events . 7 The new Pinelands Adventures logo in front of this lovely image of the Batsto River by photographer Ernest Cozens. Pinelands Adventures ~ Reaching the Public with Earth Day the Pinelands Story Native Plant Sale by Carleton Montgomery, Executive Director and Rob Ferber, Director of Pinelands Adventures Saturday, April 25 You won’t protect what you don’t love, and today, opportunities to connect with 11:00 am - 3:00 pm nature have been displaced by the internet, you won’t love what you don’t know . social networking, video games and organ - PPA Headquarters, ized sports. The Pinelands is one of Earth’s great 17 Pemberton Road, natural treasures. Its origins are a PPA needs to address these challenges if we Southampton, NJ compelling story of natural history, are to build a community of active people power, and politics done right. Pinelands supporters and expand our edu - A wide variety of Today too few people know that story and cational impact. Only an active public that too few know how they themselves can demands the Pinelands be saved will Pinelands native become effective voices for the Pinelands. ensure our public agencies and officials do trees, wildflowers, This lack of knowledge is a big problem as right by the Pinelands, year after year, in and shrubs for sale. the Pinelands faces threats new and old the face of pressure to weaken or waive Members Only Sale from political and economic forces. environmental protections. April 24th, 3pm to 6pm There is also a growing disconnect between Motivated by this goal, PPA is launching a the younger generation and nature. It has new initiative called Pinelands Adventures. become a truism that a generation ago, kids We have established a canoe/kayak livery would hop on their bikes and spend the day operation to serve as the foundation for a 17 P EMBERTON ROAD exploring and playing in the great out - comprehensive program of nature, recre - SOUTHAMPTON , NJ 08088 T - 609.859.8860 doors. Many developed a lasting apprecia - ation and education experiences for indi - F - 609.859.8804 tion of nature that they carried with them viduals, families, schools and community WWW .PINELANDSALLIANCE .ORG through their adult lives. For many people groups. continued on page 5 Inside The Celebrate Spring at PPA’s 10th Pinelands Annual Native Plant Sale Published six times a year by the Pinelands Planting native species around your Some of the plants you will find Preservation Alliance home or business limits your impact on include *: the surrounding environment. Native Executive Editor plants serve as hosts for many native Trees/Shrubs/Vines insects and are well adapted for growing Carleton Montgomery in the sandy, acidic pine barren soils. Serviceberry, Ironwood, New Jersey Native plants don’t require the additional Tea, Buttonbush, Atlantic White Editor fertilizers and watering that many non- Cedar, Sweet Pepperbush, Flowering Becky Free Dogwood, Inkberry, Winterberry, Mountain Laurel (4 varieties), PPA Staff Trumpet Honeysuckle, Sweetbay Magnolia, Wax Myrtle, Virginia Richard Bizub Creeper, Pitch Pine, Virginia Pine, Kristin DeWitt Beach Plum, Carolina Rose, Tom Dunn Elderberry, Highbush Blueberry, Arrowood Viburnum, and Theresa Lettman Possumhaw. Ryan Rebozo native ornamentals do. This not only Geoff Richter saves money, but also limits the negative Herbaceous Plants Jaclyn Rhoads impacts fertilizers may have on our Big Bluestem, Broomsedge Bluestem, Stephen Sebastian unique pine barren soils and water. Eastern Columbine (2 varieties), Providing cover for animals and attract - Jane Wiltshire Swamp Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, ing native bees and butterflies are some Showy Aster, Blue False Indigo, of the other benefits to planting a native Pinelands Adventures Pennsylvania Sedge, Purple garden. Add to the plant diversity of Coneflower, Blue Mistflower, Boneset, Rob Ferber, Director your home or business by planting a Ox-eye Sunflower, Blueflag Iris, Dense native garden this spring! Blazing Star, Cardinal Flower, Great Distributed to This year PPA will hold its 10th annual Blue Lobelia, Horse-Mint, Cinnamon PPA members & volunteers, Fern, Switch Grass, Clustered state legislators, Native Plant Sale on April 25th at our Bishop Farmstead in Southampton from Mountain Mint, Meadow Beauty, Pinelands municipalities, 11:00am-3:00pm. PPA’s members-only Little Bluestem, Wild Pink, Grey elected officials, sale will take place Friday April 24th Goldenrod, New England Aster, New selected officials, from 3:00pm – 6:00pm. You must be a York Aster, Blue Vervain, New York and planning boards PPA member or become one that day Ironweed. to attend. Mailing services generously donated by Swift Mailing We will have over 50 species and Our thanks go out to Pinelands Services of Bristol, PA varieties of plants with prices ranging Nursery, Fernbrook Nursery and (www.swiftmailing.com) from $2.50 for plugs to $18.00 for larger New Moon Nursery for making this trees and shrubs. Plants that are native sale possible. Printed on 100% recycled paper (made from post-consumer pulp to South Jersey and the Pine Barrens will produced in a chlorine-free be for sale. We hope to see you there! *This list is subject to change - some pulping and bleaching process) plants may not be available due to Contact Ryan, Director of Conservation Circulation: 5500 availability from the nursery. A full Science, with questions regarding the plant price list will be posted on our native plant sale – phone 609-859-8860 Available online at website. www.pinelandsalliance.org ext 26 or [email protected]. 2 Off-Road Vehicle Damage in the Pinelands - The Destruction is Endless! by Jaclyn Rhoads, Assistant Executive Director Illegal off-road vehicle use is one of the (Nymphoides cordata ) were found in an greatest threats to preserved open space. area of about 2,000 square feet of ATV and Off-road vehicles can compact soils, monster truck disturbance along with ORV Damage disturb wetlands, destroy vegetation and various debris including bottles. While cause sedimentation and erosion of some species may continue to survive in a waterways. The vehicles typically access few of the sites, there are locations where areas that aren't patrolled by law photo documentation shows evidence of enforcement or traveled by the general plants and animals that have been public for low impact recreation such as destroyed by these vehicles. birding and hiking. The Pinelands Preservation Alliance and nearly 30 This project is beginning to quantify the partner organizations throughout New amount of damage that is occurring and Jersey have been fighting the destruction where it is happening. It ends the debate Wharton State Forest caused by illegal off-road vehicles by that off-road vehicle damage is minimal in seeking policy reforms, increased nature. It also helps bring resources to enforcement, and restoration of damaged areas badly in need of restoration or sites for over a decade, but there is little enforcement. It is disturbing to realize that collective information about the extent of so much damage goes unrecorded the damage and where it is occurring on without prosecuting the offenders, but state-owned lands. fortunately, this project begins to address the documentation problem. In 2014, Pinelands Preservation Alliance received funding from the William Penn New Jersey Conservation Foundation and Foundation to survey and map sites of PPA have mapped the survey locations TVs in Winslow WMA illegal off-road vehicle damage and which include photos with latitude and dumping on state-owned lands in the longitude plus other information Pinelands. South Jersey Land and Water necessary for restoration efforts. The map Trust conducted the survey on behalf of is available on PPA’s website at Pinelands Preservation Alliance and www.pinelandsalliance.org. The goal of documented 114 damaged sites but many this project is to increase awareness about more sites remain. The type of landscapes this problem, understand the extent of damaged by illegal dumping and ORV use damage, and identify areas for restoration. included sand roads, upland forests, savannahs, forested and open wetlands, At this point, more work needs to be done vernal pools and historic sites. Damaged to restore damaged areas and prevent Wharton State Forest sites were found throughout the following future damage of these sites on Disturbed vernal pool and gravel Wildlife Management Areas (WMA): state-owned land. In particular, pit. Cedar Lake, Makepeace Lake, Peaslee, volunteers are working with Wharton Stafford Forge, White Oak Branch, State Forest to restore these sites by Winslow and the state forests of blocking access, installing signs and Greenwood and Wharton. directing increased enforcement to these areas. We can use Winslow Wildlife Management Area to demonstrate the Our hope is that this work will serve as a type of damage found at these sites. At model for state lands throughout the rest Winslow there is extensive driving of the state. We will continue to document through vernal pools that contain various ORV impacts in other areas in the Stafford Forge WMA species of frogs and native flora. In one Pinelands in order to target restoration Barriers torn down to get into location green frog, southern leopard frog, efforts and prevent additional damage gravel pit cricket frog, and floating hearts from occurring. 3 Meet PPA’s New Director of Conservation Science by Ryan Rebozo, Ph.D., Director of Conservation Science I am so excited to join PPA as the portion of seedlings and flowering new Director of Conservation plants in the population. These Annual Native Plant Sale Science. I was first introduced to managed sites differed from April 25th, 11am – 3pm the New Jersey Pine Barrens as an unmanaged sites in having signifi - undergraduate at Rutgers University cantly greater canopy openness and at PPA Headquarters working as a research assistant on a less competition from woody small mammal study.
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