On a late winter-early spring evening, with a warm rain falling and temperatures above 45 degrees, volunteers with the Sourlands Conservancy in central New Jersey take up posts along nine roadways in Hopewell Township that frogs and salamanders need to cross while en route to the vernal ponds where they breed. The conditions have to
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Jeff Strahley, of Red Bank, New Jersey, spent an early November afternoon riding along the Delaware Canal towpath near Washington Crossing Park in Bucks County. He has mixed feelings about the increased e-bike presence on the popular trail. “There’s good and bad. The good is it gets more people out on the trails that might
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On an April morning, Nick Macelko was scouring the Assunpink Creek in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. It was a successful search. He found an acuminate crayfish (Cambarus acuminatus) on the creek bottom. “You can tell because he has that rostrum [part of the head that projects forward] that doesn’t have little spines on it. Cool.”
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