About NJ Urban Forest
Welcome to the NJ Urban Forest Blog!
The purpose of NJ Urban Forest is about raising awareness for the natural beauty that can be found right in your own backyard. Most people today are concerned with the Amazon and other far away wild lands being decimated but seem oddly unaware about the destruction of the forest in their own backyard. Tax Ratables are often king more than not it seems. Open space is the best ratable. NJ is the most populated state in the country and should preserve it’s remaining natural areas.
Thirsty to learn more about the high diversity of plant life found in the Garden State? It is strongly recommended you check out this wonderful informative book: Plant Communities of New Jersey. NJ’s geology, topography and soil, climate, plant-plant and plant-animal relationships, and the human impact on the environment are all discussed in great detail. Twelve plant habitats are described and the authors were good enough to put in examples of where to visit!
Feel free to e-mail NJUrbanForest at NJUrbanForest@gmail.com with any comments, memories or suggestion! Thank you and have fun exploring!
Hi NJUrbanForest. Thanks for following our site. I totally agree that there is a great deal of beauty in NJ. It’s unfortunate that oil refineries and the like give the state a bad rap (not to mention a bad smell!) One of our birding interns is from Basking Ridge and has written about places he’s enjoyed birding all over the world, the Scherman-Hoffman Audubon Sanctuary in Bernardsville among them. http://raxacollective.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/scherman-hoffman-audubon-sanctuary/.
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Thank you for your comment! I checked out the post-well written!
Glad you liked it. I would encourage you to look at Ben’s other posts as well, as I’m fairly confident he wrote about other east coast bird sanctuaries. Keep up your good work as well!