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Pinelands Commission Nominations Stalled Spring 2021 Volume 28 Number 1 Meet Our New Staff . 3 Land, Trails and the 30 x 30 Plan . 4 Rancocas Creek Farm Updates . 6 Jessica Rittler Sanchez, Theresa Lettman, Jennifer Coffey, Robert Jackson, and Edward Lloyd. Pinelands Events . 7 (Names are listed clockwise starting in the upper left.) Pinelands Commission Nominations Stalled Native Plant by Rhyan Grech, Policy Advocate Sale Sometimes progress is so painfully slow, prior to advancing to the full Senate. the temptation to throw your hands up in However, months passed without any of Offered Online defeat feels overwhelming. You may feel the nominees making it on to the April 22nd - 28th this way about the stalled nominees to the Judiciary agenda. The reasons vary, but Pinelands Commission. If you do, we the result for all five was the same; the Purchase native plants understand. legislative session ended in January 2020, and the process started over. from Pinelands Direct For those who haven’t followed this two- and a portion of the year long saga, here’s a little background. Fortunately, the Governor made the same proceeds goes to PPA. The Pinelands Commission is the critical nominations again in early 2020, but Your order will be state agency charged with overseeing land history repeated itself. To date, none of use, natural resource protection and the candidates have advanced in the shipped right to you! implementing the Comprehensive Senate. Management Plan (CMP) within the A link to order online will be Pinelands National Reserve. A board of Meanwhile, the Pinelands Commission is on our website by April 22. fifteen Commissioners heads up the currently operating with three vacant agency: seven gubernatorial appointees, seats. A number of current one federal appointee, and one appointee Commissioners have made clear their from each of the seven Pinelands desire to step down, or their disinterest in counties. attending meetings. As a result, the bare www.PinelandsAlliance.org minimum for a quorum (eight In 2019, Governor Murphy nominated Commissioners) has been the normal four highly qualified candidates to serve, attendance month after month. and re-nominated Commissioner Ed 17 PEMBERTON ROAD Lloyd. All five candidates, including This slate of Commissioners has failed to SOUTHAMPTON, NJ 08088 take real action on off-road vehicle T - 609.859.8860 Theresa Lettman, Bob Jackson, Jessica F - 609.859.8804 Rittler-Sanchez and Jenn Coffey, needed damage, protecting water supplies in the WWW.PINELANDSALLIANCE.ORG a vote in Senate Judiciary Committee face of climate change, and other continued on page 5 Inside The The Pinelands is for Everyone Pinelands A new initiative to make natural places more accessible to people with disabilities Published three times a year by the Pinelands Getting outdoors in nature is good for We will establish an ongoing forum for Preservation Alliance our health and well-being. Studies have sharing insights, ideas and information shown that if people feel safe, time in about nature accessibility. This will keep nature can lower blood pressure, stress accessibility on the agenda for public Executive Editor hormones, and improve mood among and private land managers who care for Carleton Montgomery many other benefits. our natural public spaces. Despite being the most crowded state in This initiative is funded by an Inclusive Editor the nation, New Jersey has a large Healthy Communities Grant from the Becky Free amount of open space, including the 1.1- Division of Disability Services, New million-acre Pinelands National Jersey Department of Human Services. Reserve. The forests, streams and ponds This is a new state program that is PPA Staff found here are an important resource funding great work around New Jersey Isabella Castiglioni for residents in the region. to help people with disabilities improve their health and quality of life. Tom Dunn Unfortunately access to the vast natural Andrew Gold areas found in the New Jersey Pinelands Interesting in learning more? Visit our Rhyan Grech can be difficult if not impossible for website www.pinelandsalliance.org/the- people with physical or other disabilities. pinelands-is-for-everyone. Read about Audra Hardoon Visiting natural places can be the project and sign up to get updates Jason Howell uncomfortable, unsafe or impossible. about opportunities to share your Jaclyn Rhoads Barriers may include a limited number thoughts and experiences and provide of accessible sites or a lack of feedback on the project. Carlos Martínez Rivera comprehensive and reliable information Erin Tobiassen of the accessible sites that do exist. The Pinelands Preservation Alliance Explore the Pinelands Pinelands Adventures wants to help overcome these barriers so National Reserve Rob Ferber everyone can enjoy the benefits of time in nature and visit the parks, forests and with Pinelands Adventures! Allison Hartman preserves which our state and communities have protected. Rancocas Creek Farm Now accepting reservations for Jeff Tober We are collaborating with two extraordi- nary partner organizations, Disability paddling trips on the Batsto and Jess Brandeisky Rights New Jersey and Hopeworks. Mullica River. Together, we will work with the Distributed to disability community to make the Fun for the whole family! PPA members & volunteers, Pinelands more accessible to everyone. state legislators, Visit www.PinelandsAdventures.org to Pinelands municipalities, We will engage with individuals, plan your next adventure. government agencies and other non- elected officials, and planning boards profits to listen and learn from people with disabilities about the obstacles they Pinelands Adventures Mailing services generously find in enjoying the Pinelands’ natural 1005 Atsion Rd. donated by Swift Mailing places. Shamong, NJ 08088 www.swiftmailing.com We will create a unified hub of online, 609-268-0189 Printed on 100% recycled paper. mobile-friendly information about Pinelands Adventures is an initiative of the Circulation: 550 0 existing facilities and opportunities. We Pinelands Preservation Alliance and our members will identify the improvements and new get 10% off all trips and programs. Available online at facilities that are needed and propose www.pinelandsalliance.org specific new projects in underserved Located within beautiful Wharton State Forest. communities. 2 Meet our New Staff We have some new people joining awareness of all that the Pinelands has to a minor in botany at the University of our team! In February, Erin offer to the surrounding communities. Puerto Rico-Mayagüez in 2001. I Tobiassen was hired as our obtained my doctoral degree from the Bookkeeper and in March Carlos Another benefit, Erin loves to watch the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008. Martinez-Rivera joined PPA as birds on the property and to see the The focus of my dissertation was to Director of Conservation Science. golden sunlight light up the red barn in understand how sexual selection shapes the late afternoon. She is looking forward the evolution of frog calling behavior and to spring when the flowers bloom and the male-male interactions in noisy, compet- vegetables on the farm start sprouting. An itive environments (frog choruses), and avid photographer, Erin enjoys capturing how females select individual mates from and sharing the beauty of the outdoors the chaos of the chorus. with others. At home, Erin and her husband Ted contribute to a healthy During my graduate career I worked with environment by leaving patches of grass, Reserva Ecológica Comuna Loma Alta in dandelions and other native growth in the Ecuador helping them protect one of the yard for the bees, butterflies, birds, few remaining tracts of coastal cloud squirrels and groundhogs to feed on and forests and dry forests in the region, a hide in. unique and fragile habitat home to many Critically Endangered animals and plants. Erin also has a special connection through her husband’s ancestry with the people of In July 2008 I became Curator of the Pinelands including but not limited to Amphibians and Reptiles and Amphibian Thomas Luker, Elizabeth White, the Conservation Biologist at the Philadelphia Horner family and the Burke family. Zoo, and developed holistic Amphibian Conservation Programs for critically Erin says, “When outdoors, breathing the endangered amphibians in the Tropical Bookkeeper – Erin Tobiassen fresh air, enjoying a gentle breeze and the Andes and the Caribbean through ex situ warm sun, seeing a beautiful sunrise or (captive breeding) and in situ (on site) For the past 17 years, Erin has worked as watching the colorful birds and listening a full charge bookkeeper and office conservation, as well as policymaking and to their cheerful songs, I am filled with joy advocacy. In Philadelphia, I helped manager in the non-profit sector at a and peace. It is my hope that by helping to church in Howell, with responsibilities establish empathy-building programs protect the Pinelands, ours and future with animals where children learn that included managing all aspects of the generations will continue to experience finance department. prosocial skills and develop empathy the beauty that New Jersey has to offer”. towards wildlife. We carried out citizen Erin enjoys her field of work because she science initiatives through our local believes that bookkeeping is an integral FrogWatch® chapter and by helping part of all organizations. Being analytical environmental groups in the region. and detailed oriented, she likes the fact that accounting has checks and balances I am thrilled to join the PPA as Director of to ensure and validate data accuracy. Conservation Science, where I hope to be Working in the finance department gives able to combine science data with policy her the satisfaction of being a part of all the making and outreach programs to effect various projects in the organization even if real conservation actions at the state, she may not be directly involved. regional, and local level in New Jersey. The Pine Barrens region is a unique The more Erin learns, the more she habitat that deserves immediate understands the threat to the Pinelands protection.
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