June 2012
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Upcoming Event: Purple Martin Spectacular, Maurice...
Purple Martin Spectacular
Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, NJ
August 10 & 11
Viewing Platforms – FREE! 7:00 PM to Dusk, Friday & Saturday
Mauricetown Bridge, County Route 670 Just west of Route 47 Wawa- Dorchester, Maurice River Township See thousands of Purple Martins as they gather for migration!
Volunteers from CU Maurice River will be...
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News: Volunteers help Farmers Against Hunger and...
Volunteers can help two local organizations, New Jersey Farmers Against Hunger and Philabundance, glean surplus produce from farmers’ fields. These gleanings collect vegetables and fruits that would otherwise go unharvested, and instead supply them to needy families in New Jersey.
Learn more about these organizations:
New Jersey Farmers Against Hunger: ...
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Resource: A Homeowner's Guide to Septic Systems
“A Homeowner’s Guide to Septic Systems” is a 20-page booklet produced by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that gives homeowners tips on maintaining their septic systems to save money and protect water.
Download the complete booklet: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dwq/pdf/septicmn.pdf
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News: New Jersey releases copepod crustaceans to...
Photo: Ralf Wagner, Creative Commons license, -http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macrocyclops_albidus.jpg
MEDIA ADVISORY **FRIDAY, JUNE 22** SECRETARY FISHER, NJDEP OFFICIALS VISIT CAPE MAY FOR RELEASE OF MOSQUITO-FIGHTING CRUSTACEANS Copepod Program Cooperative Program Between NJDA/NJDEP and Counties TRENTON - New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher and Bob Kent, New...
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Research News: Rain gardens reduce pollutants in...
The goal of this initial study is to investigate whether rain gardens are an appropriate management practice for reducing car wash pollutants. Car wash runoff is known to be a source of petroleum hydrocarbon waste, heavy metals, phosphorus, nitrogen, ammonia, total suspended solids (TSS), and surfactants from car wash soap. In New Jersey, as well as the nation as a whole, many organized groups...
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Upcoming Event: Class on Delaware River Atlantic...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm
at the Edgar Joyce Senior Center next to the Upper Deerfield Municipal Building on Route 77.
Lisa Calvo, Aquaculture Program Coordinator for Rutgers University and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, will talk about the past and present of the Atlantic sturgeon in the Delaware River.
Chris Smith, Principal Fisheries Biologist for the New Jersey...
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Volunteer Opportunity: Pollination Ecology...
Interested in the ecology in pollinating insects and the plants that attract them? The Graduate School of Education, in conjunction with the pollination laboratory both at Rutgers University, is looking for volunteers to participate in a study investigating how people learn when conducting scientific research.
Volunteers will study pollinators at Community Supported Agricultural Farms in New...
