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If you want to know what Stewardship is, read this!

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January 5, 2012
funding, land ethics, land stewardship policy

What exactly should Land Stewardship mean to land managers in New Jersey?  What are some of the prevalent conservation threats and what are land managers doing to address these threats?  Anne H. Jacobson, Program Office at the Victoria Foundation, put together this excellent white paper on Land Stewardship.  It also includes information about existing funding sources for Stewardship.

Ms. Jacobson writes:

“Stewardship” is a broad term that goes beyond “management” (traditionally associated with farming and forestry operations) to encompass an environmental ethic:  the …… ongoing responsibility – in perpetuity – to supervise, enhance, maintain, and defend its properties.

Click here to download and read the entire white paper.

Funding for Land Stewardship

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November 17, 2010
funding

Anne H. and I have been attempting to put together a comprehensive list of sources for funding for land stewardship.   Click on the chart to get a more workable and readable view of what we put together.  We’d love to hear what you think about the pros and cons of using these various programs for stewardship activities.  Let us know if we missed anything!

Upcoming stewardship events and funding opportunities

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May 14, 2010
educational opportunities, funding

Courtesy of Anne H., find below a list of some great land stewardship related events and funding opportunities.

I’ll be setting up a more formal calendar on the site soon, so just shoot me an email or post in the comments if you have a land stewardship event you’d like to post.

FRIDAY MAY 14th 3-6pm and SATURDAY MAY 15th 2-5pm
D&R Greenway Native Plant Nursery Sale
Princeton, NJ
Fri., 5/14 (slide show about the plants 2-3PM)
http://www.drgreenway.org/nursery/thenursery.html

THURSDAY MAY 20, 2010 9:30am-3:00pm
The Wildlife Society Spring Meeting
Solving Conservation Problems through Farm Bill Programs
Echo Hill Environmental Education Center (Hunterdon Cty. Park – Flemington)
Directions can be found at: http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/depts/parks/facilitys/echohill.htm#directions with field trip to South Branch WMA  Attendees are requested to contact Ted Nichols via phone (609-628-3218) or e-mail (tnichols@hughes.net) so we can get a head count for ordering lunch.

DEADLINE: FRIDAY MAY 21, 2010
Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP)
Applications are being accepted for the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program
http://www.nj.nrcs.usda.gov

SATURDAY MAY 22nd @ 2PM
Sourland Planning Council guided hike on Baldpate Mountain
In celebration of SPC’s new publication Living In The Sourlands: A Guide to  Responsible Stewardship.
The hike will include a visit to an ecological restoration being done there by Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space and Mercer County Parks Commission. There will plenty of woodland birds, wildflowers and other Sourlands specialties to admire as well. Hike led by Rachel Mackow. Please RSVP for directions by 5/18 to info@sourland.org.  http://www.sourland.org/

DEADLINE: FRIDAY JUNE 4, 2010
Conservation Innovations Grants (CIG)
CIG are offered through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies.  Proposal for the New Jersey 2010 Program are being accepted. http://www.nj.nrcs.usda.gov

WEDNESDAY JUNE 9, 2010
Stewardship Roundtable Meeting
@ Baldpate Mountain, Titusville, NJ. More information to follow.

DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010
Landowner Incentive Programs Grants (LIP)
The NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife has announced the opening of the application period for landowners to apply for grants through the Landowner Incentive Program. For more information: http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/ensp/lip_prog.htm

South Mountain Restoration

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October 14, 2009
deer management, ecological restoration, forest management, funding, non-native invasive plants

Here is a great article on the restoration taking place at South Mountain Reservation.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I can’t say enough about how impressed I am by the conservation leadership of the South Mountain Conservancy, Essex County, Joseph DiVincenzo, and of course, New Jersey Audubon and New Jersey Conservation Foundation.

Note how expensive this is – $800,000.  If we were to measure the acreage of forests in NJ that need to be restored and multiply that by the per-acre costs of this restoration we’d have monetary value we could put on the ecological problem of overabundant deer.   This sounds like a fun exercise .  Anyone up for it?

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