New Jersey Conservation Foundation

By Alison Mitchell Executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation For thousands of years, before climate change started accelerating, New Jersey’s coastal marshes slowly regenerated through a harmonious process...

By Alison Mitchell Executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation Forming one of New Jersey’s longest borders, the Delaware River has connected people and places for thousands...

By Alison Mitchell Executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation Looking to beat the summer heat? How about splashing around in creeks hunting for fossils? Fossiling is...

By ALISON MITCHELL Executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation Across the forests, riverbanks, and backyards of New Jersey, animals are building shelters that are marvels of engineering...

Photo Courtesy of George Williams Horseshoe crabs come ashore to spawn. By ALISON MITCHELL Executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation Once there was a superabundance of horseshoe crabs, and armadas of females...

By Alison Mitchell Executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation Before many of New Jersey’s forests started being cleared and drained for agriculture some 400 years ago – drastically changing the landscape of...