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COALITION RECEIVES MORE LAND
The Forked River Mountain Coalition has recently received donations of two small parcels of land in the Forked River Mountain project area. The first parcel, located in Lacey Township, contains upland vegetation typical of the central Pine Barrens. The property is located on the north side of Lacey Road just a few hundred feet from the large Lacey Tract. The Deep Hollow Branch of Cedar Creek is also nearby and the Coalition hopes to acquire more land in the area in the coming year.
The second parcel, located in Ocean Township, is at the other end of the Forked River Mountain project area. Like the first parcel, it contains upland vegetation typical of the central Pine Barrens. The property is located north of Wells Mills Road, off the historic Bryant Road. The property is just a stone's throw from the old Albert Brothers Homeplace. The parcel is traversed by an old sand road that may some day serve as the trailhead for a hiking trail to the Forked River Mountain area.
The Coalition’s bluebird nest box trail continued to produce results during it's second year. Our nest boxes fledged a total of seven bluebirds. We are again in need of a few dedicated individuals to help monitor the nest boxes during the third year of the project from March until August. If you would like to volunteer as a bluebird nest box monitor, please call the Coalition at 609-971-1635 no later than March 1, 2001.
Inside this issue . . .
A Look Back...A Look Ahead
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Basic Annotated Bibliography......................................Page 3
Membership Application...............................................Page 4
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For the past year, the Forked River Mountain Coalition has been busy working to permanently protect this vast wilderness. Our membership has more than doubled since the group first organized in 1994 and we continue to grow. Below are just some of our accomplishments for 2000 and some of our future goals for 2001, and beyond . Accomplishments
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But we can only realize our goals with your help. If you are not currently a member of the Coalition and would like to join, or if you are a member and have not yet renewed your membership, simply complete the registration form. Be sure to mark the appropriate box and return the form along with your $15 membership dues for 2001. Please help support the grass-roots initiative to permanently protect the Forked River Mountains and the vast wilderness that surrounds them.
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BASIC ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FORKED RIVER MOUNTAINS By Elizabeth M. Morgan Editor's note: The following is the final part of a bibliography that was prepared for the Coalition by Elizabeth Morgan in 1998, the first appeared in the last edition of Forked River Mountain Views. The bibliography, in its entirety can be found here. Harshberger, J.W. 1916. The Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Christopher Sower Co., Philadelphia, PA. 329 pp. [Harshberger's book is confusing to the average reader as he most frequently prefers to use botanical names for plants. A good way to learn botany is to look up the common names, while not forgetting that the taxonomists change botanical names form time to time. Borrow a modern Gray's Manual of Botany for this labor of love!] Kobbe, Gustav. 1970 Reprint. The New Jersey Coast and Pines. Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD. 102 pp. [The first edition in 1889 had smaller print making the book hard to read. The Ocean County Historical Society 1970 reprint is excellent for finding the old sands roads as well as the route of the Tuckerton Railroad. Charming accounts delight the reader.] Lloyd, John Bailey. 1990. Six Miles at Sea: A Pictorial History of Long Beach Island, N.J. Down the Shore Publishing, Harvey Cedars, NJ. 172 pp. [Chapter Nine contains a story of seashore hotel guests who went to the Forked River Mountains (c.1910) for a "dig" in the old Native American graveyard (c. 1750). Don't even think about doing this today. In the first place, it is against the law and there is live ammo around from a World War II project. Lloyd is an excellent writer as well as a historian.] McCloy, James S. and Miller, Ray, Jr. 1976. The Jersey Devil. The Middle Atlantic Press, Wilmington, DE. 121 pp. [One of the many editions about our popular Jersey beast which haunts the Forked River Mountains as well as many other New Jersey sites. There used to be night hikes in the Forked River Mountains conducted by the Ocean County Parks Department. Hikers had a scary time hunting for the Jersey Devil.] McPhee, John. 1967. The Pine Barrens. Random House, New York, NY. 172 pp. [McPhee's book is still a best seller after thirty years because he brought clear positive thinking to bear on the area and its inhabitants. This changed attitudes nationwide towards the Pine Barrens and its people which has far reaching effects to this day. Excellent reading and reliable facts. The Forked River Mountain area was slated for the bulldozer so a city could be built there.] Robichard, Beryl and Buell, Murray F. 1973. Vegetation of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 340 pp. [See also Collins, Beryl R. and Anderson, Karl H., 1994. Plant Communities of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 280 pp. Both books will please a wide readership of those interested in plants.] Rutherford, William Kenneth and Anna Clay (Zimmerman). 1986. Second Revision. Genealogical History of the Rutherford Family. Vol. I, 791 pp. Vol. II, 1703 pp. [Whether the name is spelled Rutherfurd or Rutherford, the authors published their family history privately. Our interest lies in the offspring of Walter Rutherfurd, brother-in-law of Lord Stirling of Revolutionary War fame. This well-researched book of an affluent colonial family is an aid to explain the complex ownership of the Lacey Tract in the Forked River Mountains before the family sold it in 1954.] |
