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Watermelon in Spring
By: Jonathan Kocsis, Lead Intern It was early one morning with frost lining the ground and the air cold and nippy as I walked through the outdoor section at my local hardware store. Surrounded by plants in brackets hanging above my head, by the new trees ready to be planted, my 9-year-old self felt as…
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The Wild Within!
By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern I have recently found myself wondering what exactly community rewilding truly means to me. At its core, community rewilding could be defined as the act of reconnecting people with nature and their local environments to foster resilience, community empowerment, and sustainable self-sufficiency. Community Rewilding is a unique approach…
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An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail
By: Richard Federman, RNJCC Strategic Advisor On the morning of April 18, 1921 a woman named Betty Hardy Stubbs, one of the nation’s leading women’s suffrage activists, ran from New York’s Grand Central Station to a bridge spanning the East River, and jumped. Her husband, a kindly and idealistic former Professor of Forestry named Benton…
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Finding Home in Saddler’s Woods
By: Acer Paiste, Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association Intern, Rewild NJ Network Member When I first moved from the sprawling forests of Medford to the Haddon Hills apartments on Pyle Avenue, I felt displaced. Medford’s dense woods had always felt like a second home to me. It was a stabilizing presence in my life, nurturing me…
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Rewilding the People: Honoring the Original Peoples of Turtle Island: Upcoming Indigenous People’s Day
By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Soon, we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day (& the upcoming Native American Heritage Month), previously and adjacently known in parts of the country as “Columbus Day”. The origins of the previously observed holiday was in celebration of the day that Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the Americas in the year…
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How Rewilding Yourself Can Reduce Energy Costs
By: Isabel Molina, RNJCC Strategic Advisor 2024 was the hottest year on record since 1880, breaking the previous top record-holding year, 2023. 2025 is on track to receive second place for hottest year recorded. With temperatures consistently climbing, it has never been more important for people to have access to a cool environment during extreme…
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Summer Symphony
By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Summer nights. Seasons bring more than just changes for our eyes and clothing. More than just temperature and daylight hours. Nights in summer are layered with sound. One August night, I sat on my back deck. Initially the woods seem quiet compared to the constant streaming of daytime noise.…
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Blooming Highways
By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern Imagine you are driving down the highway surrounded not by concrete buildings and asphalt, but by beautiful native floral habitats. This vision is becoming a reality in New Jersey as organizations such as the South Jersey Transportation Authority have begun to plant pollinator gardens along major roadways. The…
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Human-Wildlife Conflicts: Experience with Weasels in New Jersey
By: Alex Mackay, Social Media Intern There are so many benefits that can come from owning and raising livestock, specifically chickens. As I have talked about in my previous blog, I have ownedchickens for years and even moved homes with our chickens. From taking care of them and even hatching chicks, they have taught me…
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“And The Corn Remembered The Land”: Utilizing Indigenous Ingredients
By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Food sovereignty is among one of the top priorities as far as Indigenous People are concerned. And in a time where the markets are continuously fluctuating, relearning and reconnecting to the ways of utilizing what the Earth provides becomes critical. Not onlydoes it bring us closer to…
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