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The View from 3rd Mountain: Anarchism
By: Derek Polzer, Advisory Board Member When we hear the word anarchy or anarchism, we tend to associate it with violence, chaos, or disorder most often used in a political context. Too often anarchism is mistaken for nihilism! I’d like to suggest that Anarchism is neither “Right nor Left”, as understood in our current political…
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The Voice of the Woods
By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director In January 2020, I was feeling very hopeful. I had just graduated with my Master’s Degree and I was starting my first teaching position at a four-year University. I have always been bright and happy- blessed with good spirits and positive energy. Confident, ambitious, and motivated, I moved…
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The Rewild Revolution
By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director The normative modern environmental movement, starting in the 1960s, is slowly becoming irrelevant and in desperate need of reform. The inception of environmentalism was necessary and created great progress- environmental education is at a height, environmental protections abound, and awareness is ever present. However, where there are positives,…
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Spring Thoughts at Tioga State Forest
By: Arthur Veilleux, Rewild NJ Movement Member A recent trip to Tioga State Forest in Pennsylvania helped strengthen my connection to nature, while also deepening my willingness to accept loss and practice grief. Tioga, meaning “the meeting of two waters,” is a 160,000-acre woodland of old-growth forest, maturing woods, and recently cleared sections wheretimber is…
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The View from 3rd Mountain: Springs Slow Advance
By: Derek Polzer, Rewild NJ Movement Member It’s mid-March & my wife Jacky & I were walking one of the boardwalk trails here in the Great Swamp when we finally heard the song of the Red-Winged Blackbirds. It’s not officially Spring, but by now Spring Peepers & Chorus Frogs would have begun singing & turtles…
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Stepping Back into the Sun
By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern After so many months of gray skies, heavy winter coats, and snowy grounds, spring has finally arrived. The days have become brighter, and there seems to be a sort of cheer in the air. If you’re anything like me, winter has put me into “hibernation mode” where I…
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Winter Wings of New Jersey
By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern New Jersey is known for its beaches and summer activities, however, in the winter, there are other outdoor activities. Although it may be cold this brings with it many migratory bird species that you can only see here during the winter months. New Jersey opens its shores to…
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The View from 3rd Mountain: Self-Sufficiency & The Old Ways
By: Derek Polzer, Rewild NJ Movement Member One of the great joys of living during the counterculture days of the 60’ & 70’ was the spirit of self-sufficiency, a “do-it-yourself” ethos! It showed up in our young lives in many ways. Our vehicles of choice were often Volkswagens; VW beetles, buses, square-backs, transports, even a…
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member Weapons of Mass Destruction. What images come to mind? Bombed cities, twisted bodies, virus-stricken civilians, poisoned waters? Take a drive. Check the roadsides. There you will see the detritus of a WMD we familiarly call the family car. In the past year I have seen the mangled remains…
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Winter Woods
By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member 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…
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