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August / September 2019 Inside the Pinelands Aug / Sept 2019 Volume 26 Number 4 Master of the Skies . 3 Pass the Endangered & Threatened Plant Protection Act . 4 PPA Receives Generous Land Donation . 6 NJ is one of only five states to require 50% of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. Pinelands Events . 7 A New Day for Energy Policy in New Jersey by Tom Gilbert, Campaign Director ReThink Energy NJ and New Jersey Conservation Foundation Explore the Pinelands! It’s a new day when it comes to energy implementing key policies that will: policy in New Jersey. Guided and unguided • Improve energy efficiency to at least 2 river trips, bus tours, percent per year, from the current 0.6 Last year, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into percent hikes, canoe lessons law a history-making measure that makes and more. New Jersey one of only five states to • Continue to expand solar power through Fun for the whole family! require 50 percent of its electricity to a revamped incentive system, and new come from renewable sources by 2030. He Community Solar Pilot Program Book Your Next followed it up with an even more Adventure Today! ambitious executive order to develop a • Harness 3,500 megawatts of New Jersey’s offshore wind power plan for New Jersey to achieve 100 percent Pinelands clean energy by 2050. •Develop 2,000 megawatts of energy Adventures storage by 2030 1005 Atsion Rd. And, the state Board of Public Utilities Shamong, NJ 08088 recently released a draft Energy Master These policies are a breath of fresh air – Plan that is open for public comment 609-268-0189 literally – that will reduce emissions that through mid-September. The plan harm our health and climate, and bring PinelandsAdventures.org identifies a number of key strategies, thousands of good, local jobs and other including ramping up renewable energy economic benefits to New Jersey. and efficiency efforts, electrifying the transportation and building sectors, and CONTACT THE PINELANDS But this clean energy future is threatened 17 PEMBERTON ROAD modernizing the electric grid. SOUTHAMPTON, NJ 08088 by a massive build-out of fracked gas T - 609.859.8860 pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastruc- F - 609.859.8804 All signs point to New Jersey making WWW.PINELANDSALLIANCE.ORG ture proposed throughout the state, rapid progress toward clean energy by continued on page 5 Inside The 15th Annual Tour de Pines Bicycle Pinelands Ride Takes Place in October Published six times a The Tour de Pines, sponsored by small Victorian house with a high roof year by the Pinelands Pinelands Preservation Alliance, topped by a chair. The long ride travels Preservation Alliance celebrates Pinelands Month in October to the Great Bay. Start location: Bass with five consecutive single-day bicycle River State Forest, Tuckerton NJ. Executive Editor tours of the New Jersey Pinelands. Proceeds benefit our work to protect this Oct. 6: NEW! HIGH UP IN Carleton Montgomery special place. This year’s ride takes place BURLINGTON COUNTY (48 and 26 from October 2nd to October 6th. We miles) Traverse Arney’s Mount, the Editor hope you can join us! highest point in Burlington County. Ride travels along the edges of the Becky Free Each ride ranges from 43-55 miles per Pinelands. Chili & beer after the ride! day and they begin and end at the same Start location: PPA Headquarters in PPA Staff location. Cue sheets are provided to all Southampton. registered riders allowing you to go at Richard Bizub your own speed. Visit www.TourdePinesNJ.org for more Isabella Castiglioni information or to register. Like us on Participants provide their own trans- Facebook @tourdepinesnj. Tom Dunn portation, food and lodging as this is an Rhyan Grech unsupported ride. Shorter loops between Sponsors Needed! Contact Becky at 609-859- 25-27 miles are available for some of the 8860 or [email protected]. Audra Hardoon rides. There is a rider leader and a ride Jason Howell sweep for all rides. Alicia Plaag You can ride as many days as you wish 2019 Tour de Pines Ryan Rebozo for the same price - $45/person. Sponsors Jaclyn Rhoads (as of August) Tour de Pines 2019 Ride Schedule: Stephen Sebastian Oct. 2: NEW! BLUEBERRY FIELDS Community Tour Sponsor Jane Wiltshire FOREVER (48 or 29 miles) Discover Jersey Shore Cycle Club why Hammonton is the “Blueberry Pinelands Adventures Capital of the World”. Historic Batsto Team Tour Sponsor Rob Ferber Village, Mullica River, old churches and homemade pies! Start location: White Flying Fish Brewing Co. Barnes Laucks Horse Winery, Hammonton NJ Donald Sulewski Bicycle Shop Sponsors Oct. 3: NO WHINING RIDE (43 miles) John Volpa Horse farms, rural roads, Historic Bicycles Unlimited Forked River, NJ Walnford, Colliers Mills and Assunpink Distributed to Wildlife Management Areas (with a few Shore Brake Cyclery PPA members & volunteers, steep hills mixed in) Start location: Brant Beach, NJ state legislators, Laurita Winery, New Egypt NJ Pinelands municipalities, Village Bicycle Tuckerton, NJ elected officials, Oct. 4: ATLANTIC-CAPE RAMBLE (48 miles) Low traffic roads and and planning boards undeveloped land. Historic sites of Aetna Friend of the Tour Furnace and the Head of the River Mailing services generously Futureview TV Services Church, and wildlife management areas. Tate & Tate Certified Court Reporters donated by Swift Mailing Also Belleplain State Forest. Start www.swiftmailing.com location: Estell Manor Park, Estell Tour Supporters Printed on 100% recycled paper Manor, NJ. (made from post-consumer pulp Urgent Care Now produced in a chlorine-free Pemberton-Pyramid Lodge No. 92 pulping and bleaching process) Oct. 5: NEW! PINELANDS MEETS THE BAY (48 and 24 miles) Travel Circulation: 550 0 through small towns, wildlife areas, and pass the famed “Chair on the Roof” – a 2 Master of the Skies by Frank Pignataro, guest writer I have never known anyone who has had Astonishingly, this program eventually opposable thumb, that assists in their the good fortune of observing them in used chickens rather than mechanical ability to swoop down and capture flight who was not filled with awe at their means to incubate the eagles’ eggs until unaware fish swimming near the surface. mere appearance. I am speaking, of eagles could once again do it themselves A very large pair of eagles nest, and are course, about one of the most majestic of without their eggs prematurely cracking often spotted, soaring in the Chatsworth birds to grace the sky in the New Jersey under their parent’s weight in their nests. area in the Pine Barrens heartland. They Pinelands, the Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus are truly a sight to behold. leucocephalus. In order to speed recovery and ensure the program’s success they also introduced Our national symbol, these incredible more than 50 eagles from Canada. They birds with wingspans up to 7-8 foot across did this slowly, over nearly a decade, in Call for Artists! were once near the point of extinction in various parts of the state. They focused on New Jersey. They only recovered due to 3rd Annual the astonishing effort of a few dedicated Pinelands Juried individuals that ensured their upturn from a mere solitary pair nesting in the Photography thick forests of Bear Swamp in the Exhibit Pinelands National Reserve to well over a hundred pairs and counting today. Share your images taken within the boundaries of the Pinelands National Once ubiquitous throughout the lower 48 Reserve! Landscape, flora, wildlife, states, Alaska and Canada, the bald eagle and people will be accepted. fell victim to the insidious effects of insecticides, particularly DDT, from the The exhibit will hang at our offices. late 1940s until early 1980s. This primarily fish-eating raptor was Registration deadline devastated by the trickle-down effect of Bald Eagle in the Pines © Jason Howell extended to: this nefarious pesticide. the forested expanse of the Pinelands and September 21, 2019 the Delaware Bay’s periphery bordering It made its way through the food chain in the Garden State from farmer’s fields and Cumberland and Salem counties where Categories: orchards to our waterways and their more than 50% of the state’s entire eagle inhabitant fish which comprise nearly population can now be found. Open Submissions 85% of the bald eagle’s diet. DDT was Juvenile bald eagles are a motley mixture Student Submissions finally banned in 1972 in the U.S. because of mostly brown coloring until reaching of its heinous effect in thinning the shells Over $2,500 in cash prizes! full maturity in about four to five years. of the eagle’s eggs, as well as other birds, Upon maturity they come to possess their like ospreys. Unfortunately, the unmistakably distinguishing white heads *Opening Reception cumulative effects from decades of DDT’s and tails. Relying almost exclusively on Saturday, November 9, 2-4pm use still hadn’t allowed any viable fish for food during the summer months hatchlings from that solitary eagle pair by (often stolen from a nearby flying osprey) Exhibition Dates: the early 1980s. That is when the NJ in southern NJ bay areas, they will upon Division of Fish and Wildlife stepped in. Nov. 10 - Dec. 14 necessity feed on small mammals and Utilizing resources from the Endangered carrion during the winter months. This is *Awards announced at true in their Pine Barrens habitats when and Nongame Species Program (ENSP) reception. biologists precariously “stole” an egg in most of the shallow lakes and bogs near 1982 from that solitary nest for artificial where they reside are ice covered. Submission guidelines are in the incubation in a government-funded lab in These massive birds weigh between ten to Maryland. While doing so, they hood- 2019 Exhibit Prospectus fifteen pounds and occupy the top of the available online: winked the eagles with a plaster egg and food chain.
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