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The Sierra Club is a non-profit member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.
When you join the Sierra Club in Monmouth County, New Jersey, you automatically become a member of the Jersey Shore Group.
Note that it is not necessary to be a member in order to make our acquaintance.
Shore Group Happenings:
We have had several cleanups with a coalition with Monmouth University, all the towns on the Whale Pond Brook watershed, and the N.J. Friends of Clearwater. Our goal is to clean up the watershed and educate local residents about the detrimental effects of lawn fertilizers and storm water run-off, and the importance of integrated pest management. We have held several hikes along part of the watershed and have shown the documentary film, A Chemical Reaction, hich chronicles the harmful effects of common lawn and garden pesticides and one town's fight to ban them.
Help Needed for Cleanups:
If you would like to participate in cleanups of our local waterways, please contact Laura Bagwell at l.bagwell3@verizon.net. In this vital effort, our Group joins forces with the Navesink Swimming River Group which, since 2002, has removed more than 20 tons of debris from our local banks and streams.
General Meetings:
The general meetings of NJF Clearwater and Sierra are hosted by the college's Science Field Station at Sandy Hook. The two clubs meet at the Lincroft campus to share speakers and involve environmentally concerned college students. A cash buffet will be available for college students and adults at 6:00 p.m. Contributions from non-students are requested to defray the costs. The general meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.
To get to Brookdale, take Parkway Exit 109 to Route 520 West (Newman Springs Road, which becomes E. Main Street at the Lincroft campus). Take the traffic circle into the campus and follow the signs to the Warner Student Life Center (SLC), where the meeting will be in the Twin Lights 1 Room. Use parking lot 7. As you walk towards the building complex, Warner will be on your left. If lot 7 is full, use parking lots 5 or 6. A map is at BCC campus map
Come to our Next Meeting!
Two Environmental Groups Will Assess
NJDEP's Proposed Rules for Beach Access
Mr. Weber will speak at 6:30 pm, Monday, May 21 at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. The meeting, open to the general public, will include college students and members of the N.J. Friends of Clearwater and the Jersey Shore (Monmouth) Group of the Sierra Club.
New access regulations proposed by DEP recently drew protests from open space advocates ranging from environmentalists to fishermen to surfers, because they claim the regulations gave municipalities too much leeway in designing their beach access. Mr. Weber will report on the revisions.
About four decades ago, the NJDEP undertook an extensive survey of the state's tidal coastline to identify all state-owned tidelands and to pinpoint shorelines where tidal waters were illegally filled in by adjacent residential and corporate property owners. In addition, the DEP has tried to control access fees of some Jersey Shore municipalities that, in DEP's opinion, charged out-of-town beachgoers disproportionately higher access fees than local residents.
According to DEP critics, however, the proposed access regulations will give municipalities, especially those traditionally hostile to out-of-towners, too much leeway in establishing their access rules, particularly on ocean beaches. The rules also cover access to urban waterfront, including many areas now blocked by commercial development.
The Surfrider organization also has been invited to make a short presentation on "Reef as Art," a plan to place a giant concrete horseshoe crab off the Jersey Coast as an artificial reef.
Need directions or more information? Call Dennis Anderson, 732-970-4327, or email dennisaza@aol.com and check upcoming meetings and other dates for your diary .
Previous years events
2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005,
Conservation
Please join us as we forge ahead in our efforts to form a grassroots coalition of people who want to actively participate in helping to restore the beautiful resources of the Navevink/Swimming River and the Whale Pond Brook\Takanassee Lake watersheds. We'll be planning clean-ups, hikes, bike rides, efforts to educate the public on subjects such as the proper use of pesticides and fertilizers and the colorful history of the watersheds.
Get involved in an area that interests you, or make your own area......but please join us.
Contact: Faith Teitelbaum, 732-513-5445 - Jersey Shore Group - Conservation Chair
Activities
The Jersey Shore Group provides opportunities for the following types of activities:
- assisting local agencies in ongoing conservation projects
- working to influence environmental decisions at local, state and national levels
- enjoying our environment through hiking, canoeing, camping etc
If you have questions of any sort, you can always contact our membership chair, Robert Grize: nyucwnyppb@aol.com
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