Archive for September 2021

By Michele S. Byers, Executive Director, 1999-2021 If long-tailed salamanders, Northern long-eared bats, and the other creatures of forests, fields and marshes could throw a party, they’d be celebrating this week! They just won a permanent reprieve from an unneeded and unwanted gas pipeline that would have slashed a huge swath through open space, farms,…

By Michele S. Byers, Executive Director, 1999-2021 “Think globally, act locally” is a motto used for years to encourage local action on environmental problems. Seventeen-year-old Sonja Michaluk has been thinking globally and acting locally since she was a six-year-old monitoring streams for water quality in her hometown of Hopewell Township. And the Carnegie Mellon University…

By Michele S. Byers, Executive Director, 1999-2021 New Jersey experienced its worst flooding in years on Sept. 1, when the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped up to 11 inches of rainfall on a landscape already saturated from previous storms, including Hurricane Henri just 10 days earlier. Heavy rainfall was expected, but the torrential downpour and…

By Michele S. Byers, Executive Director, 1999-2021 Are you ready to get out and hike this fall? New Jersey has hundreds of miles of public trails: long and short, rural and urban, pedestrian and multi-use. Many are scenic, with especially stunning views and fall colors. Other trails double as transportation routes for walking or biking…