Tag: travel

  • An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail

    An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail

    By: Richard Federman, Rewild NJ Movement Member 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…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part II

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part II

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director The Knepp Estate is a 3,500-acre rewilding project in West Sussex, England. Over the past few decades, Knepp has become an internationally recognized example of success for rewilding in practice. Knepp was a clear choice for my first ever rewilding vacation. My fiancé dropped me off at Newark Airport…

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member My journey into rewilding began as a child living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  Always preferring the outdoors, this rural area of Interlaken had it all. Woods, fields, lake, beaver ponds, mountain. I was the nerdy kid who had collections of the natural world around me. Rocks identified and classified.…

  • Analyzing Restoration at Bayhead Beach

    Analyzing Restoration at Bayhead Beach

    By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern It was a bright and sunny day down the shore when I decided to go to my favorite place, Bayhead Beach. While walking up to the beach, I was stopped by construction tape and a crowd of people, along with a United States Army Corps engineer who was…

  • Exploring New Jersey’s Wild Side!

    Exploring New Jersey’s Wild Side!

    By: Richard Federman, Rewild NJ Movement Member Did you know that there’s a location in South Jersey where you can spot the Philadelphia skyline and the casinos of Atlantic City without doing more than swiveling your head? Are you aware that one of the state’s longest boardwalks – and certainly the most scenic – has…