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, 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 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. I graduated shrubs. Our biggest sale yet with from Rutgers in the spring of 2010 thousands of plants native to with a Bachelors of Science degree Introducing mowing or burning to the Pinelands & South Jersey! in Ecology and Evolution and a previously unmanaged sites resulted minor in Entomology and in increased densities of gentians, Trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, Economic Zoology. In the fall of flowering percentage, and total site ferns and wildflowers at prices 2010 I entered the Drexel University seed set within two to six months. between $2.50 for plugs and Environmental Science graduate Actively managing late successional $18.00 for specialty shrubs program on a fellowship through sites for reduced woody competition the Louis Stokes Alliance for through mowing and prescribed Minority Participation. On March burns, has the potential to improve 3rd of this year I defended my populations of other rare, early-suc - Members Only dissertation and earned my Ph.D. in cessional plant species, much like Pre-Sale environmental science. what was recorded with the Pine Barren gentian. Other threats that Friday, April 24th My Ph.D. research was focused on currently exist for this species the influence of land management include mowing during the flower - 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm on populations of Gentiana autum - ing season, herbivory, and Must be a current PPA member (or nalis (Pine Barren gentian) in New granivory. Both the timing and become one that day) to attend! Jersey. From 2011-2013, I visited form of management have been known Pine Barren gentian popula - found to be important when A plant price list will be available on tions that were subject to prescribed planning for the conservation man - our website by mid- April. burning, mowing, or left unman - agement of rare plant species. For more information: aged. My goal was to better under - stand how our management of the www.pinelandsalliance.org land impacts the site conditions, population structure, and pollina - tion of this rare, fall flowering species. Pinelands Commission Meetings The Pine Barren gentian is typically found in early-successional habitats The Pinelands Commission is an that were historically maintained by independent state agency overseen natural disturbance, such as wild by a 15-member board of unpaid fires. With current fire suppression Commissioners. practices, prescribed burns and roadside mows are used to reduce Monthly meetings are open to the fuel load and attempt to limit the public. Join us! encroachment of later successional plant species.Overall, Pine Barren Thurs., May 7, 6:00 pm gentian populations at these sites Fri., June 12, 9:30 am were limited in their number of flowering plants and had few NJ Pinelands Commission seedlings. Populations that were 15 Springfield Rd. actively managed had a higher den - Gentian research at Warren Grove Pemberton, NJ sity of gentians, and a greater pro - Range in warmer weather! www.nj.gov/pinelands

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Pinelands Adventures is located at We hope everyone who cares about 1005 Atsion Road in Shamong, the the Pinelands will come to Pinelands Great Photographs Needed! former site of Adams Canoe Rentals. Adventures for paddling and non- Photos of people enjoying the Batsto, Pinelands Adventures will provide paddling trips and – most important Mullica, Oswego and Wading Rivers are paddling trips on Batsto River and of all – will bring friends and family needed as well as photos showing other , as well as hikes and who do not know just what a won - activities in the Pine Barrens. other land-based expeditions derful place we have in the nation’s throughout the Pine Barrens. most crowded state. If you share images, we'll need your Program offerings will include guid - permission to use them as well as that ed paddles and hikes, unguided of anyone identifiable in the photo. canoe and kayak livery services, and all sorts of nature and history pro - Send images to grams for families, individuals, [email protected] schools and community groups. Minimum size 1000 px wide (or Generations of people have learned high if vertical) or send the best to love the Pine Barrens by canoe - that you have and we'll work on it. ing, kayaking and camping using the Adams livery service. We will build on that legacy of responsible, low- impact recreation and learning. Forked River Mountain Pinelands Adventures will officially Clean-up open its doors on Saturday, May 2nd, and will be open seven days a OPENING May 2nd Sunday, April 19 week. 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Learn more at To reserve your trip, go to www.pinelandsadventures.org. You www.pinelandsadventures.org Bring lunch and dress appropriately. can also email Pinelands Adventures or call 609-268-0189 4WD vehicles needed. Sponsored by at [email protected]. Forked River Mountain Coalition, Ocean Canoe and kayak rentals, guided tours, and other outdoor programs. County Parks and PPA . Pinelands Adventures aims to Sign up on their email list today. achieve these key goals: Pre-registration required . Pinelands Adventures is an initiative of For information and directions • Increase active recreation in the (609) 971-1635. Pinelands by bringing new people the Pinelands Preservation Alliance. into the region and providing them with memorable nature experiences. Stay Informed & • Visitors become more informed Share Your Pinelands Love about the Pinelands, its water and other natural resources, the challenges in conserving these Email [email protected] resources, and – most importantly – with the subject “Add my Email” ways they can help save the Pinelands. to get our weekly emails. • Pinelands Adventures will create Follow us on Facebook new field trips for schools and facebook.com/pinelands community groups. These will Find us on Twitter include opportunities for students and families who come from @PinesAlliance disadvantaged urban areas and do Share with us on Instagram not often get to experience Pine @pinelandsalliance Barrens wilderness. 5 PPA MEMBERandum: Charles Caruso

In July 2014 Charles Caruso volunteered to part of an organization that is working to CC : After retirement, my wife and I took a become PPA’s official representative on the preserve this beautiful place. course at the BBP to become Volunteer Science and Technology Advisory Master Naturalists and we learned much Committee for the Barnegat Bay about the region we have enjoyed for our Partnership (BBP). BBP is one of 28 PPA: What specific PPA activity has really whole lives. At one of the sessions I leaned Congressionally designated National impressed you? that there was an opening for a PPA repre - Estuary Programs in the United States CC : I have attended two lobbying events at sentative on the BBP Science and Technical working to help restore, protect and enhance the New Jersey Statehouse in opposition to Advisory Committee. I thought that with the natural resources of Barnegat Bay. The the South Jersey Gas Pipeline and have my scientific background and interest in program is sponsored by the United States been really impressed with the caliber of policy I could help out to advance the goals Environmental Protection Agency, the the PPA staff at these events, with their of the PPA. Ocean County Board of Chosen excellent communication and leadership Freeholders, and Ocean County College. skills in advancing the organizations PPA : Anything else you like to add? Charles’ scientific expertise helps to position before legislators, and with the maximize PPA’s staff resources – he is a great high regard they command from the CC : By acting as the PPA representative on addition to the team! legislators for their professionalism and the BBP Science and Technical Advisory knowledge. Committee, I have come to see the other environmental organizations in New PPA : What prompted you to become a Jersey. This has confirmed my belief that member of the Pinelands Preservation PPA : What has PPA done for you? Your the PPA is the best group in advancing Alliance? Town? environmental values for the Pinelands Charles Caruso: I had just retired from CC : I have kept a sailboat on Barnegat Bay and for New Jersey. Merck Pharmaceutical Company after a for the past 30 years and PPA has been 28-year career as a patent attorney instrumental in protecting the water spending much of the time in Washington, quality of the Bay. Much of the watershed FAIRS & F ESTIVALS DC representing Merck on legal and of the Bay lies in the Pinelands and by SUNDAY , A PRIL 26 policy issues that came before the US insuring that any development is Congress. I learned how important the consistent with the Pinelands ACUA E ARTH DAY FESTIVAL political process is to accomplishing an Comprehensive Management Plan the Egg Harbor Township, 10am - 4 pm organization’s goal and how lobbying is a PPA has protected and preserved not only tool to make your voice heard. The PPA is the Pinelands but also the waters that flow SUNDAY , J UNE 7 the organization that lobbies on behalf of into the Bay from the Pinelands. BARNEGAT BAY FESTIVAL environmental values in the Pinelands Wannamaker Complex, Island Heights PPA : Why would you urge others to join PPA? 10:00 am - 4:00 pm CC : The PPA is one of the best and most SUNDAY , J UNE 14 effective environmental organizations in New Jersey and if you want to protect and BURLINGTON COUNTY preserve the treasure of the Pinelands and EARTH FAIR Barnegat Bay you should join this Historic Smithville Park, Eastampton organization. They are the respected voice 10:30 am - 4:00 pm in the New Jersey Statehouse advocating on behalf of environmental values. We all SATURDAY , J UNE 28 know New Jersey is highly developed, but if you want to preserve the beauty of this WHITESBOG BLUEBERRY state for future generations please join this FESTIVAL group of dedicated people. Historic Whitesbog Village, Browns Mills 10:00 am - 4:00 pm PPA : What prompted you to volunteer as before the New Jersey Legislature and the PPA’s representative on the BBP’s Science Stop by PPA’s table Pinelands Commission and I wanted to be and Technical Advisory Committee? at these events!

6 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Calendar of Events Hon. Brendan Byrne Honorary Chair Former Governor, Pinelands Programs and Field Trips State of New Jersey May to June 2015 James Barnshaw, M.D. Chair Retired Physician The events listed below are just a growing ever since. Enjoy [email protected] few of the great Pinelands trips three days of music, dancing, www.cedarrun.org Kevin Sparkman this spring. camping and happy people! Vice Chair An unforgettable weekend Fusionspark Media Visit www.pinelandsalliance.org filled with an eclectic mix of Canoe/Kayak the Oswego Anne E. Heasly and click on Event Calendar for a music from all genres. Buy River (Burlington Co.) Treasurer complete listing of Pinelands tickets online and learn more Conservation Consultant Thurs., May 21, 10 am, Sponsored programs and trips provided by a at www.campjam.org or call by the West Jersey Chapter of the 856-697-5555. Michael Gallaway wide variety of groups and Sierra Club Secretary organizations. Wooded campground is RV Sierra Club The American Red Cross was and tent camper friendly. founded on this day in 1881! Enjoy an 8-mile spring paddle Peter C. Adamson, M.D. on “The Jewel of the Pinelands”. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Exhibition - Pine Barrens Meet at Lake Oswego, Lake Timothy J. Byrne Life and Legends Oswego Rd. Bring lunch and Attorney water. Boats can be rented from Thru Sept. 13, 2015 at the Noyes Mick’s Pine Barrens Rental 800- Charles M. Chapin Museum of Art of Stockton 281-1380. Confirm trip and College, 733 Lily Lake Road, New Jersey Audubon Society participation with George & Oceanville NJ 08231 Leona F. 609-259-3734 or Emile DeVito, Ph.D. Learn about work and play of [email protected] New Jersey Conservation Foundation life in the Pine Barrens. Industries of charcoal, glass, John Dighton, Ph.D. OPENING DAY Canoe/Kayak with your Director, Rutgers Pinelands Field Station paper and iron once thrived in May 2nd the Pines, while music and Pooch on the Wading River Bill Fisher merrymaking filled the dance (Burlington Co.) Senior Project Manager, Liberty Property Trust Learn more on the web: halls and stories of witches Mon., May 25, 9 am, Sponsored by and the Jersey Devil abounded . www.pinelandsadventures.org the West Jersey Chapter of the Albert Horner A collaboration between the Sierra Club Photographer Canoe and kayak rentals, South Jersey Culture & Fortunato invites his “cousins” History Center and the Noyes Ron Hutchinson, Ph.D. guided tours, and other and dog lovers for a Memorial outdoor programs. Pinelands Museum of Art. For more Day trip. Boats can be rented Associate Professor of Biology, Richard Stockton College of information call 609-652-8848 New Jersey Adventures is an initiative of from Mick’s Pine Barrens Canoe PPA. Sign up on the email list or www.noyesmuseum.org. and Kayak Rental 800-281-1380 Janet Jackson-Gould today or call 609-268-0189. Other events happening Contact George & Leona F. to Nonprofit Consultant during this exhibit include: confirm trip and river section Pine Barrens Storytelling & we are paddling. 609-259-3734 Blanche Krubner Yard, Garden and Native Music on May 2, 2pm - 3 pm or [email protected] League of Women Voters Plant Sale - Ocean Cty. Russell Juelg, storyteller and David M. Kutner, PP AICP Sat., May 16th, 12 noon to 4pm, musician Recovery Planning Manager, New Jersey Future Jakes Branch Nature Center, 1100 Canoe/Kayak the Great Egg Pine Barrens Crafter Harbor River (Atlantic Co.) Double Trouble Road, Beachwood June 20, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Patricia Marino Sun., May 31, 10 am, Sponsored by Retired Educator Learn about our ecosystem, Niki Giberson: Wool spinning the West Jersey Chapter of the make a craft, or take a guided and felting with hands-on Sierra Club Louis R. Matlack, Ph. D. nature walk. Local organiza - experience Retired Mediator and Community Facilitator tions will be on hand with This is a 10-mile trip on the plenty of resources for the “egg” from Penny Pot to David F. Moore home gardener. Native plants Whiskey, Wine & Wildlife Weymouth Furnace. Meet at Retired Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation will also be offered for sale by the Harley Dawn Diner – arrive Foundation local nurseries. May 16, 4-9pm, Sponsored by early for breakfast. Rentals are Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife available from Palace Loretta Pickus FREE native seeds and plants Refuge, Location: The Flying W Restaurant and Outfitters 609- Attorney, Senior Vice President General Counsel at Revel to take home, and bring your Resort in Medford, NJ 625-8552. Contact George & Casino Hotel own native plants or seeds to Leona F to confirm trip and swap! Please label each item Wine and cheese pairings, participation 609-259-3734 or Leon M. Rosenson, Ph.D. whiskey samples, microbrew Retired, Liposome Company with the common and [email protected] scientific names, collection and gourmet beer samplings Jessica Rittler Sanchez, Ph.D. date and location. and food provided by premier Water Resource Planner area restaurants and caterers. There will be music, Barbara Trought Camp Jam in the Pines - basket raffles, a silent auction Find more Pinelands events Community Activist Atlantic Cty. and live auction. Wildlife on our website: Ambassadors, such as owls, Robert Tucker, Ph.D. May 14th - 16th, Buena Vista falcons and snakes, will also be www.pinelandsalliance.org Retired Scientist Campground, 775 Harding Hwy, in attendance. Must be 21+ to and click on Events Calendar Buena 08310 attend. Tickets are $65 per Carleton K. Montgomery Camp Jam was founded in person. Contact Kathy Cantafio at 856-983-3329 ext. Executive Director, Pinelands Preservation Alliance 1999 by music lovers in the Jersey Pines and has been 100 or by email at 7 Pinelands Preservation Alliance Address Service Requested Nonprofit Organization Bishop Farmstead U.S. Postage 17 Pemberton Road PAID Southampton, NJ 08088 Permit #12 Vincentown, NJ Inside: New Project to Document ORV Damage  p. 3 PPA ’ s New Director of Conservation Science  p. 4 PPA MEMBERandum Charles Caruso  p. 6 Pinelands Event May to June  p. 7

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