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Cape May County Residents: Urge your municipality to request the Freeholder Board apply for NJ Green Acres funding to protect open space and enhance recreational opportunities Already, TEN municipalities have passed resolutions thus far. This fall may be the county"s last chance to apply for funding until a more stable source of funding is passed to support Green Acres. To download a sample resolution, click here To view Upper Township"s resolution passed on 10.11.11, click here To view Wildwood"s resolution passed on 10.26.11, click here To view Cape May Point"s resolution passed on 10.27.11, click here To view Cape May City"s resolution passed on 11.1.11, click here To view Lower Township"s resolution passed on 11.7.11, click here To view Dennis Township"s resolution passed on 11.15.11, click here To view Ocean City"s resolution passed on 11.29.11, click here To view Middle Township"s resolution passed on 12.5.11, click here To view West Cape May Borough"s resolution passed on 12.14.11, click here Read opinion piece in Press of Atlantic City 9.20.11, click here Read Press of Atlantic City editorial supporting campaign 11.13.11, click here Read Ocean City Gazette editorial supporting campaign 11.28.11, click here Read Gazette story from 11.17.11, click here Read letter to editor in Middle Township Gazette 12.2.11, click here Read letter to Freeholder Board sent July 2010, click here Read oped in Cape May County Herald 8.17.10, click here Middle Twp seeking State endorsement for new Master Plan Middle"s recently updated Master Plan is up for a final vote on Septermber 28, 2011 at the State House Annex, Room 1, 125 W. State St, Trenton, NJ. According to Middle’s own Master Plan, over the past ten years the township lost 33% of its vacant, largely forested land to development as well as over half, or 77 of its remaining farms. The new Master must do a better job at protecting what remains of these critical resources – especially since it only has about 3,500 acres of it left. If one thing is true in New Jersey it’s that tax increases always follow suburbanization. Middle residents and Cape May Refuge advocates need to speak out at the last public hearing on August 1st or risk seeing what remains of the township’s countryside and forests buried under more costly water polluting sprawl. The Refuge represents all Americans. This is your last chance to tell Middle officials that it’s not ok to undermine that investment for more shopping malls and traffic. Download a copy of a handout that summarizes the zoning changes and analyzes how they will impact you. click here Read Littoral Society"s testimony at the July 6th first reading of the draft Master Plan Ordinance, click here Read Littoral Society"s letter to the Office of Smart Growth 9.21.11, click here Read the Friends of Cape May National Wildlife Refuge"s comments 9.20.10, click here Read Cape May Herald article, Refuge Group Challenges Middle 9.21.10, click here Read Middle Twp Gazette article, Indifference, skepticism for zoning change 6.30.11, click here Read Press of Atlantic City article, Middle Twp plans more Rte 9 development 7.7.11, click here Read Middle Twp Gazette article, Groups rail at zoning changes 7.14.11, click here Read our letter to the editor in the Middle Twp Gazette, Middle Township ignores Cape May Refuge7.28.11, click here
Tell NJ lawmakers to defend environmental safeguards - Oppose A2486 & S1986 TAKE ACTION! click here 77 Environmental, health, public interest and other organizations have united to oppose A2486 & S1986 click here
SOCIETY AWARDED $275,000 FOR OPEN SPACE PROJECTS IN DELAWARE BAYSHORE REGION See NJDEP Green Acres Program 2011 Project Descriptions click here See NJDEP Green Acres Program 2009 Bond Act Project Descriptions (funding round FY 2010), which include $6 million for Delaware Bay Watershed Greenway, $5 million for Cape May Peninsula, and $3 million for Barnegat Bay Watershed Greenway click here Read press release from NJDEP, GSPT approves DEP-recommended list of Green Acres Projects click here Read The News article, Littoral Society targets Bridgeton Bluffs with $275,000 4.13.11 click here
Read The News of Cumberland County article on the status of the preservation of the Bridgeton Bluffs click here
OPPOSE FURTHER CUTS TO LAND & WATER CONSERVATION FUND Ongoing budget negotiations among Senate and House will determine funding available for LWCF and other longstanding programs that conserve land and water resources and ensure outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. Proposed budget cuts threaten funding for our national and state parks, forests and wildlife refuges as well as other public lands. What you can do: Continue to reach out to our members and supporters of LWCF to ensure strong and consistent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Send a letter or email to your members of Congress urging them to support restored funding for LWCF. Click here to find your Congressman Click here to find your Senator Learn more: LWCF Activist Guide 2011
Coastal Sanctuaries Initiative Continues on the Cohansey River 
In 2006 the American Littoral Society launched its Coastal Sanctuaries initiative on the highly scenic Cohansey River in Cumeberland County, NJ. The project is designed to educate local stakeholders and decision-makers about the river"s significance to wildlife, fisheries and recreation, current threats and the wide variety of tools available that can be used to better protect it. Ongoing efforts include identifying and prioritizing prime parcels of land for preservation, as well as promoting such growth management tools as clustered development, transfer of development rights, and forest and river corridor protection ordinances. To learn more about one of the Delaware Bay"s most outstanding, yet least protected coastal waterways, and the Society"s ongoing efforts to protect it, click hereTo see a map of our conservation priority areas in the Upper Cohansey Watershed, click hereTo see a map of our conservation priority areas in the Lower Cohansey Watershed, click hereFor a more in-depth narrative about the Cohansey River and compilation of special designations and studies, click here To see our Cohansey River photo gallery, click here
Reporting Threatened and Endangered Species
The Delaware Bayshore region has a very high biodiversity and harbors many of New Jersey’s most wondrous rare plants and animals.
Reports of threatened and endangered species and species of special concern are important in compiling State records and maps, and often times can become a deciding factor in determining whether or not a site is suitable for development and approval of State DEP and federal permits.Threatened and endangered species can be surveyed for by sight or sound in many cases, and may be present in areas where they are not always expected to occur. An up-to-date list of New Jersey’s Endangered and Threatened Wildlife can be found here.A list of New Jersey’s Species of Special Concern can be downloaded here. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection provides instructions and simple forms for reporting rare wildlife to the State here.Please help us to protect New Jersey’s imperiled wildlife species and the remaining undisturbed, yet vulnerable habitat that they require!Cumberland County:
Cumberland Reminder editorial, Preserve Bridgeton Bluffs, by Matt Blake, 4.1.2009 TDR Program could revitalize Vineland"s Downtown: preserve 14,000 acres, 7.23.08 Download PDF Unintended Consequences of Motorsports Park Already Here, 7.15.08 Download PDF
Cape May County:
See a copy of the Society"s testimony from the public hearing on Indian Trail, click here Indian Trail Fight Can and Must be Won, 7.1.08, Download PDF
Salem County: 
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