Annual Meeting November 9, 2005 (Normal schedule, second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room This meeting will determine the active member list, the officers and trustees for the coming year. Please come out and support the perpetuation of the organization. The members and public are welcome to attend. Bluffs Project– The Nature Conservancy and Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. have been…

Meeting September 14, 2005 6:30 (Normal schedule, second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room Getting the Big Picture on New Jersey’s Coastal Zone A Presentation by Richard Lathrop, Ph.D. Remotely sensed imagery and geographic information systems (GIS) provide for a big-picture view of New Jersey’s dynamic coastal landscape. The talk will describe how these technologies are being used to inform ‘on-the-ground’ natural resource management and land use…

Meeting July 13, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. (Normal schedule, second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room Presentation by The Association of NJ Environmental Commissions As many of our members are aware, ANJEC is a statewide non-profit organization that assists the efforts of environmental commissions, local officials, interested citizens, private organizations and government agencies. Their mission is to promote the public interest in natural resource protection, reclamation and…

Meeting May 11, 2005 6:30 pm (Normal schedule, second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room Presentation: A River Worth Protecting By Jane Morton Galetto, Pres. of CU Take the time to explore why the Maurice River and its tributaries are rivers worthy of protecting.  The National Park Service looked at 1.5 million river miles across the country and determined that 2% were in need of greater study…

Wednesday, March 9, 2005 6:30 p.m. (normal schedule; second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room Presentations: How to Spot Butterflies, by Pat and Clay Sutton and An Update from Lillian Armstrong on the Creation of a Bayshore Birding and Wildlife Trails Program  Pat and Clay Sutton, a husband-and-wife team with over 50 years of experience between them as professional naturalists and authors, will present a slide program dealing…

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Millville Public Library, Gant Room 6:30-8:30 p.m. What a year!  Before we recap some of the happenings for 2004 allow us to update you on some of the more recent events.  Those of you who have signed up for our e-mail hotline do get more frequent updates than those who haven’t.  So if you have access to the internet please make your e-mail address known to…

ANNUAL Meeting: Wednesday, November 10, 6:30 p.m. (normal schedule; second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room Please come to hear our featured presentation: River Recollections by CU Research Journalist Debra Barsotti Debra Barsotti began her studies in the Honors Journalism Program of Temple University. She graduated from Rowan University with bachelor’s degree in Communications. Barsotti is a freelance writer whose works have appeared in the Philadephia Inquirer,…

Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 6:30 p.m. (normal schedule; second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library Speaker Renee Scagnelli – New Jersey’s Rare Flora Our Budding Botanist Renee Scagnelli takes an interest in South Jersey flora. She is a US Fish and Wildlife’s Adopt a Swamp Pink Population Volunteer and conducts swamp pink counts. Her stewardship efforts have run the gamut of participating in clean-ups and in a preserve bioblitz,…

Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 6:30 p.m. (normal schedule; second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library, Gant Room Presentation by Fred Akers WETLANDS 101 Wetlands have been referred to as “nature’s kidneys” because of their filtering and nutrient-processing functions. They are also called “nature’s supermarkets” because of their astounding productivity. Taken as a whole, wetland environments are an important factor in maintaining global health. Slowly, we are beginning to recognize…

Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 6:30 p.m. (normal schedule; second Wednesday of odd-numbered months) Millville Public Library Gant Room Presentation by The Nature Conservancy’s Brent Burke “Green Eggs and Sand – Preserving A Bayshores Phenomenon” Moonlit nights trigger thousands of horseshoe crabs to emerge on the Delaware Bayshores. The billions of eggs these crabs leave behind are devoured by millions of shorebirds en route to their arctic breeding grounds. Come enjoy…