We invite you to join us as we learn about, enjoy, and explore the coast and work to conserve its beauty and bounty for our generation and generations to come. In 2010 and the first half of 2011, due to our hard work and the financial contributions of our members and many other supporters:

• More than 2,000 school kids grew beach grass in their classrooms and restored dunes in their communities.
  
• No horseshoe crabs were killed for bait in New Jersey and thousands of female crabs were spared in Delaware.
  
• The 15,000 remaining red knots have still escaped extinction and are closer to achieving federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.
  
• NJ Green Acres will continue funding open space preservation for at least one more year.
  
• Two billion plastic bottles from New York State won’t end up on beaches anywhere.
  
• Dozens of people have learned to fish.
  
• Hundreds of acres of prime habitat along the Delaware Bayshore have been snatched from the bulldozer’s treads and preserved.
  
• Maple Cove on the Navesink River is preserved and providing public access to the river in Red Bank, NJ.
  
• Urban kids from Asbury Park, Keansburg, Long Branch, Camden, Newark, Hoboken, and New York City have connected with the coast, some for the very first time.
  
• Dozens of sites along the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers have been identified for habitat restoration.
  
• Thousands of clams and oysters have been restored to Barnegat Bay and Delaware Bay.
  
• Hundreds of Barnegat Bay watershed residents are improving the bay in their own back yards.
  
• 1,250 anglers from Maine to Virginia tagged more than 25,000 fish and provided important conservation data for scientists.
  
• More than 10,000 volunteers removed 80 tons of trash from 387 miles of New York State’s shorelines.
  
• After 17 years of litigation, the last open space in Cape May City won’t become a 300+ unit housing development.
  
• New York City will upgrade antiquated sewage treatment plants and reduce pollution running into Jamaica Bay.
  
• New Jersey has one of the most stringent fertilizer control laws in the nation that will reduce non-point source pollution running into Barnegat Bay and other taxed waterways.
• New data is available to protect bald eagles and their habitat along the Cohansey River, an important tributary of Delaware Bay.
  
• New York City will invest $15 million in salt marsh restoration, giving dozens of acres of Jamaica Bay salt marsh a new lease on life.
  
• Important habitat adjacent to the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge won’t be degraded by a proposed asphalt plant.
  
• The last county in New Jersey without an open space plan now has one.
  
• New Jersey will invest $1 million in retrofitting stormwater runoff basins in the Barnegat Bay watershed to reduce pollution of the bay.