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From Tinsel to Tides: Rewilding with Christmas Trees
By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern Every year, approximately 30 million Christmas trees are discarded across the United States, often ending up in landfills without being properly recycled or composted (Messier). But what if I told you there is a better way to get rid of your trees, one that gives them a second…
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Why A Bear Can Rest At Ease
By: Jaxon Shain, Rutgers Newark Eco Club, Rewild NJ Network Member The language of modern science dogma is at once very complex and unable to touch the simplest of natural happenings. During this age of global society, different branches of study have different languages of origin. This leads to overly complex words. There can also…
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Winter Woods
By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Leaves, those productive energy factories of spring and summer, lay crunchy on the ground at the mercy of blasts from northern winds. They tumble at the base of the trees they nurtured. White almost sepulchral limbs of sycamores claw at gray skies. Yet in what at first glance seems…
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The Fruits of My Garden
By: Alex Mackay, Social Media Intern There’s nothing quite as satisfying as the fruits of your labor, or in my case, the plants of my garden. The idea of going to my yard and just picking the ingredients for my dinner has always been a goal of mine, and only recently have I been able…
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Native American Heritage Month – “Not November Yet”
By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, RNJCC Strategic Advisor November is known as Native American Heritage Month; and during this month, there is of course a high demand of presentations, lectures, teachings, performances, and correcting history of Indigenous People throughout all of Turtle Island. Let us start by saying that this is very appreciated, as our…
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Consistent Walks in Local Ecosystems
By: Amanda Tarrach, Outreach & Engagement Intern I find that reconnecting with nature through simple actions in local environments is one of the best ways to understand rewilding. When I slow down and take a walk through the woods, I am able to recognize the plants, animals, and ecosystem that exists around me, and further…
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On Symbols
By: Jaxon Shain, Rutgers Newark Eco Club, Rewild NJ Network Member When the insight lacks in stillness, Harshness appears. Before you study Zen, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers; while you are studying Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers; But once you have had enlightenment mountains are once again…
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How Immersing with Nature Helped Me Understand Rewilding
By: Amanda Tarrach, Outreach & Engagement Intern This past summer, I wanted to become more connected with nature and expand my personal experience of the healing it has to offer. I wasn’t sure where to start, I mean I’d go on walks in beautiful local parks, and it was very enjoyable. These parks offered not…
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Reconnecting With Nature: The Nature Portrait
By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, RNJCC Strategic Advisor As someone who is strongly passionate about advocating for Youth voices, I like to provide the Indigenous Youth of our communities the opportunity to be together. For generations, having the support of one another is that we had. Our families have stayed a tight knit community through…
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Stewarding Eden to Me
By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Imagine being the first ecologist in a perfect environment. Everything created specifically for you. Placed right there with the directive to be the steward, the caretaker. There lived Adam in Eden-biologist, botanist, zoologist, arborist (that didn’t go as planned!), environmentalist. Creatures wandering before his observant, assessing eyes to be…
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