Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer's health critical to Pinelands ecosystems
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I am glad to see the issue of Pinelands wetlands drying up is again receiving attention.
It's been well over a decade that the press last reported the phenomenon:
•Harper D. 2004. “Richland man's study is dry work.” The Press of Atlantic City. C1, C4.
It's been well over a decade that the press last reported the phenomenon:
•Harper D. 2004. “Richland man's study is dry work.” The Press of Atlantic City. C1, C4.
Mark Demitroff puts his green station wagon in park and gets out at Wawa. The landscape at the intersection of U.S. 40 and Route 54 is nothing to get excited about. Two busy roads converge. Around it, builders have sprinkled the detritus of modern life: a couple of motels and a convenience store. A dump truck from Levari Trucking beeps as it backs into a parking space nearby. The real story is behind the Wawa, Demitroff says, and in his shorts and worn leather boots, strides off quickly...
•Hajna LR. 2004. “Are the Pinelands drying up?” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. March 28, 10A.Theories abound; some observers say region has lost groundwater The Subaru Outback bounces down a dirt road that cuts through flat lowlands near the Black Horse Pike in Atlantic County. The land on either side is grassy and dotted with some small pine trees. One side is used as an air base for fighting forest fires. On the other, dark water trickles through a culvert into a long ditch. It's all the water in sight. "There it is -- Crane Pond,' Mark…
•Moore K. 2002. “How dry are we: this year’s drought is merely a symptom of a larger and older problem.” New Jersey Monthly. September. 88 – 130.Something’s missing here. Atlantic white cedar and red maples, trees you’d expect to see along a swampy riverbank, line either side of a broad green swath of grass. “This used to be a river.” Says Mark Demitroff, standing in the track of the South River near his home in Atlantic County. “The channel ran right here. And there’s the beaver hut…”
•Moore K. 2002. “Drought hastening drying of Pinelands.” Asbury Park Press. B1, B4.There’s more sand showing up on river banks in the Pinelands- but still enough water in many places to accommodate the fleet of spring canoeists. Back in the deep woods, some ponds have gone dry. After the water disappeared, so did the usual springtime chorus of frogs that live and bred in these wetlands, including the rare Pine Barrens tree frog. “This is the first year we’ve had dry ponds in the Mullica (River) region…”
•Hajna LR. 2002. “Breeding areas disappear for many species.” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. March 20, 1A, 6A.Soaking rain fell on the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge this week but did nothing to help the breeding chances of the tiger salamander, one of the state's rarest animals. Tiger salamanders, which breed primarily in extreme southernmost New Jersey, won't reproduce this year because of the drought. The seasonal ponds the salamander needs to deposit its eggs…
•Hajna LR. 2001. “Glacier expert worries about Pinelands.” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. November 8, 1B.Hugh French is one of the world’s leading expert on glaciers. He has studied these frozen rivers of ice in his native Canada as well as Alaska, Siberia, Tibet, and Antarctica. French visited New Jersey’s Pinelands in June to study what went on along the margins of glaciers at the end of the last ice age…
•Hajna LR. 2000. “Frustrated by guardians of Pinelands.” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. September 27, 3A.It’s tough to care about little green frogs and carnivorous flowers you may never see, especially if the most adventurous thing you do is watch Survivor reruns. Heck, I’ve been exploring the Pinelands for years and the closest I’ve come to a Pine Barrens tree frog is to hear it quonking from a distance. So why care if the little ponds and wetlands that provide habitat for these and countless other wildlife species may be disappearing?...
•Hajna LR. 2000. “Group says water policies hurt Pinelands.” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. September 25, 1B, 4B.One of the state's leading environmental groups says state officials should take a hard look at past water and sewer allocation policies in light of the disappearance of ponds and wetlands in the Pinelands. Moreover, the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club argues that the state should look at the impact development in designated growth areas around the Pinelands National Reserve may be having on the region's fragile…
•Hajna LR. 2000. “Pinelands shrinking ponds have state officials puzzled.” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. September 15.State officials gathered next to picturesque Batsto Lake in Burlington County on Thursday to sign an agreement protecting waterways that flow from the heart of the Pinelands. But even as they agreed to develop a plan protecting the Mullica and Wading rivers from pollution, state officials could offer little insight into why Pinelands ponds are drying up -- or even whether anyone should be concerned. Although officials seem to be...
•Hajna LR. 2000. “Ponds in the Pinelands drying up.” Courier Post: South Jersey’s Newspaper. September 5, 1A, 8A.At the end of a faint trail through dense underbrush is a muddy meadow that was a typical Pinelands pond -- until a couple of years ago. But it has gone dry like hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ponds and swamps throughout the southern Pinelands, says Mark Demitroff, a self-described avid naturalist who has studied Pinelands wetlands for much of his life. A member of the Buena Vista Township Environmental Commission, Demitroff says these areas…
•Kaskey J. 2000. “As Pinelands ponds dry, history goes with them.” The Press of Atlantic City. MM, 241. A1, A7.They're drying up. And that concerns Buena Vista naturalist Mark Demitroff, not just because he played in these ponds as a boy, but because he believes they are keys to local geology and history that scientists are just starting to understand. So, last week he assembled a crew of more than a dozen people, including a Pinelands Commission archaeologist and a Canadian geologist who...