Presentation by Joe Patt Habitat Ecology 101 Thursday, March 18, 2004 – 6:00 pm-8:30 pm Please note change in date and day! The garden catalogs are in the mail and you are beginning to dream and scheme about this year’s garden. Why not stick in a few plants to help our native butterflies? Come learn about the basic ecological principles behind selecting plants that will attract and support butterflies, hummingbirds,…
First Presentation of the New Year “All About Eagles” By Clay Sutton Before we endeavor to give you the Citizens United year in review permit us to relay that we will open 2004 with a little preview of the upcoming Raptor Festival. Brush up on your raptor identification skills and interesting raptor facts. Our first guest speaker of the year will be Clay Sutton, a well-known writer and naturalist. For…
Annual Meeting Thursday, November 13, 2003 Millville Public Library, Gant Room 6:30-8:30 pm This will be our annual meeting. Please come out and enjoy. Rerun Presentation – A number of members have asked, since the showing of Eggs to Flight was postponed by the hurricane, that we present it again. We will do the business meeting first so the folks who have already seen the show can depart earlier and…
Thursday, September 18, 2003 Millville Public Library, Gant Room 6:30 p.m.-8:30 NOTE: this is the third Thursday as opposed to the second due to scheduling conflicts and the beginning of the school year. Presentation: EGGS TO FLIGHT By Jane Morton Galetto, President Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. Jane recently created an internet photo essay about the maturation of osprey from Eggs to Flight. She…
Thursday, July 10, 2003 Millville Public Library, Gant Room Millville 6:30 p.m.-8:30 CU Member and Natural Lands Trust preserve manager Steve Eisenhauer took the initiative to lead us in a project that complements our Celebrating Our Sense of Place, Teachers’ Curriculum. The lesson involves orienting skills using aerial sky photographs. Steve took the photos and then had them labeled and framed. We have been helping in the enjoyable task of…
Thursday, May 8, 2003 Millville Public Library, Gant Room Millville 6:30 p.m.-8:30 NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION AND TIME! Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday – did you say Thursday? Yes, we have changed to Thursdays (at 6:30). Current Action Items This is an unusual time for us. On a rather infrequent basis we need to engage ourselves in objecting to proposals at the municipal level. Presently we have at least two very…
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Millville Public Library, Gant Room P Millville 6:30 p.m.-8:30NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION AND TIME SEE REVISED MEETING SCHEDULE AT END OF NEWSLETTER! Guest Speaker: Clay Sutton Naturalist, Biologist, Author of Birding Cumberland – A Birder’s Guide to Cumberland County, NJ Long-time Citizens United consultant Clay Sutton is pleased to present a slide show highlighting some of the changes that have occurred since the publication of…
Last year we started out our Annual Message with news that the Trustees and Officers would begin to explore how best to ensure the longevity of Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. In hopes of accomplishing some goals in that regard we hired an Americorp Volunteer, Amy Elder, to interview a number of watershed groups and discover how they made a transition from an all-volunteer…
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Wheaton Village Crafts Building, Millville 7:30 p.m. Annual Meeting The annual meeting will select officers and trustees for the coming year. Parvin & Tarklin Stream Project As you may recall from our last newsletter, Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and its Tributaries has recently received approval for a $56,450 Assessment, Monitoring and Environmental Education Grant for the Parvin and Tarkiln Branches in Vineland. Fred…
Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Wheaton Village Crafts Building, Millville 7:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Eric Schrading, Private Lands Coordinator Private Lands Program US Fish and Wildlife Service, New Jersey Field Office The US Fish and Wildlife Service offers two Private Lands Programs for landowners within the State of NJ: the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Programand the Coastal Program. Both are similar in that they offer a proactive, voluntary initiative that provides technical…