Next Meeting: Wednesday September 13, 2000 Wheaton Village Crafts Building, Millville, NJ 7:30 p.m. Rich Bizub of Pinelands Preservation Alliance CIRCLE YOUR CALENDARS FOR SEPTEMBER 13th, at 7:30 p.m, when Rich Bizub of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance will present a slideshow on the”Pinelands of New Jersey.” The presentation will include a slide show on the history, plants, wildlife, natural resources, and culture of the Pines, and an in-depth discussion on…
Introduction to Surfing the Web and Preview of Citizens United’s Website Hosted by Tim Jacobsen, Ph.D. Meeting – Wednesday, May 10, 2000 – Cumberland County College, Science Building Park in Lot E and Follow the Fish Millville 7:30 p.m. Note change in location Dr. Jacobsen is an aquatic biologist at Cumberland County College, where he is Director of the Aquaculture Technology Program. Tim has been kind enough to arrange for…
The Secret Life of Tuckahoe Guest Speaker Joe Patt, Ph.D.Meeting Wednesday, March 8, 2000 – Wheaton Village Crafts Building, Millville 7:30 p.m. Joseph Patt, Ph.D. is Director of Sciences & Stewardship at the Delaware Bayshores Office of The Nature Conservancy of New Jersey. Tuckahoe aka Arrow Arum, is a common freshwater tidal plant which is related to skunk cabbage and philodendrons. This species has an unusual relationship with a tiny…
Meeting Wednesday, January 12, 2000 – Wheaton Village Crafts Building, Millville 7:30 p.m. Purple Martins: A PMCA Slide Show Guest Speaker Allen Jackson Have you been unsuccessful in attracting purple Martins to your property? Most prospective martin landlords put up housing incorrectly or are unsuccessful because they do not know how to manage their martin colony properly. Allen Jackson, a resident of Millville and wildlife biologist with the US Fish…
Dear Members and Friends, We hope your holidays were pleasant. Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. has an extensive list of projects for 1999-2000. Permit us to review some of the more noteworthy of these: We have completed a 370+ page teachers’ curriculum entitled Down Jersey Celebrating Our Sense of Place that was designed to accompany the Down Jersey research and film project. This project…
Annual Membership Meeting Wednesday, November 10, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. Wheaton Village – Crafts BuildingSlide Presentation by Steve Eisenhauer Update on the Natural Lands Trust in Southern NJ – Nov 10, 1999 Steve Eisenhauer, South New Jersey regional manager for the Natural Lands Trust (NLT), will give a slide presentation and update the membership on NLT projects in the Maurice River watershed and surrounding area. The projects at the Peek…
A Presentation by William W. LeapThe Jersey Devil Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and its Tributaries, Inc. Public Meeting March 10, 1999, 7:30 p.m. Wheaton Village Crafts Building WILLIAM LEAP will offer a historian’s view of New Jersey’s own phenomenon. The creature’s antics are traced from the various stories of its birth in the early 1700s through the pages of history to 1983. Facts from newspaper files, eye witness…
Dear Members and Friends, The Trustees and Officers of Citizens United hope you and your family had a happy and healthy holiday season. Is anyone already tired of hearing, “as we enter the next millennium”? Let us spare you the prophecy and review for you what has been an extremely productive year. CU has been a charter member of the Stockton Alliance since its inception in 1994. This group seeks…
Dear Members and Friends, The Trustees and Officers of Citizens United hope that you and your family had a happy and healthy holiday season. We also wish to extend our best wishes for a Happy New Year. Citizens United Accomplishments in 1997 This past year has been an especially productive year for Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. We would like to review some of…
ANNUAL Membership Meeting, November 12, 1997 at 7:30 p.m. Wheaton Village – Crafts Building CITIZENS UNITED TO PROTECT THE MAURICE RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, INC. RECEIVES WATERSHED GRANT FROM NJ DEP TO CREATE TEACHER’S GUIDE “DOWN JERSEY” FILM. Citizens United and the NJ Department of Environmental Protection just finalized an agreement in which Citizens United receives $16,000+ to make a curriculum that hinges around elements of the “Down Jersey ” film….