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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 Movement 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, 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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Native American Heritage Month – “Not November Yet”

By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, Advisory Board Member 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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Episode 3: Empowerment, Justice, & Sovereignty in the Urban Space

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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, Advisory Board Member 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, Rewild NJ Movement Member 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…
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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…