94-96- work with local sand mining co. “Morie” on habitat restoration project. Other partners in project are Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council, Pinelands Commission, Maurice River Township Planning Board, NJ Div. of Fish Game and Wildlife- Endangered and Nongame Species Program.

94 - CU helps with Cumberland County Ecotourism work shop.

94 - CU identifies fields that may meet Millville Soccer Assoc. needs vs. cutting forested land. CU shows how purchasing field could be less cost prohibitive than preparing the donation of a forested piece of land. Additionally they identify a land trust willing to help seek funding from Green Acres. Sadly Soccer Assoc. fails to complete process. Happily in 97 they are looking at how to utilize fields with the local board of education.

94 - CU participates in lawsuit in conjunction with NJ Audubon Society and NJ Conservation Foundation maintaining parcels conservation zoning. Final conclusion: thousands of acres of sensitive land is donated / sold to The Nature Conservancy.

June 9, 1994 - CU helps host dedication of Maurice River Project a cooperative effort coordinated by NJ Fish, Game and Wildlife under North American Wetlands Conservation Act

October 26, 1994 - Vice President Albert Gore visits the banks of the Maurice River with US Congressional delegation to celebrate the protection of the Maurice River and its tributaries

December 1, 1993 - President Clinton signs legislation placing the Maurice Menantico, Manumuskin and Muskee Rivers into the US Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

93- The New Jersey Environmental Federation recognizes CU's successful campaign in Millville for public referendum question to include local rivers in Wild and Scenic program

93- CU helps find builders willing to donate scrape wood to Bayside Prison for the construction of blue bird houses.

93- CU's president receives National Award for volunteer work with CU- Environmental Women of Action from the Wilderness Society in Washington, DC

93- Testified before the DEPE making suggestions for improving PSEG's wetland mitigation project that were ultimately added to the proposed mitigation

92-93 - Testified in Washington DC before the US Senate and House of Representatives Sub Committees on Natural Resources for designation of the Maurice, Manumuskin, Muskee, and Menantico Rivers into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

92- CU ran a successful campaign in Millville receiving a 2-1 voter victory mandating federal Wild and Scenic designation of Maurice and Menantico Rivers

92 - Maurice River Basin Wetlands Conservation Project is selected as the number one project nationally to receive North American Wetlands Conservation Act Funds. This project has presently brought over 4 million in conservation dollars to the watershed. The New Jersey Division of Fish Game and Wildlife sited two non funding partners as the major catalysts in the development of the project CU and the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. CU's constant documentation of natural resources, the wild and scenic effort, and our determined interaction with local, state, and federal agencies has contributed to making this project a model in conservation.

91-93 - CU funds and found corporate sponsorship for Raptors of the Delaware Bayshore a film by Mitch Smith that we hope will air on public television (as of Aug. 97 this project sadly remains unfinished)

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