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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. This is the fable of the New Jersey Meadowlands and it is all true.

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New Jersey Legislation Mammals Pigs 157

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Sarah Atlas is a search-and-rescue dog handler, one of many civilian volunteers who serve with New Jersey Task Force 1. They were to be deployed to Ground Zero with 200 other members of New Jersey Task Force 1, including structural engineers and medical workers, as well as other search-and-rescue people.

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New Jersey Rescue Medical Dogs 100

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MAY 5, 2015

Dale Rosselet is an educator, and tour leader, associated since 1983 with New Jersey Audubon, where she is currently Vice-president for Education. Both are birders first and foremost, both are known in the New Jersey birding community as mentors, and it shows.

Birds 172

Birds New Jersey Science Groups 172

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JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). But, you never get the feeling that you are reading an EDUCATIONAL book. Several features emphasize the book’s educational side. Dawn Publications, March 2011. The BLUES Go Extreme Birding.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 241

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. We also discussed the overall educational goals of the guide, how the Crossley ID Guide series differs from traditional field guides, and how British birding differs from U.S.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I was happy to see that the Mississippi Kite map documents the kite’s incursion into the Northeast, including two notable nesting sites in New Jersey and New Hampshire. First up are the two Jerry Liguori books, Hawks From Every Angle (PUP, 2005) and Hawks At A Distance (PUP, 2011) and Hawks in Flight, 2nd ed.

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North America Birds Mississippi Bald Eagle 198