Landscape Project Version 3.1 - State of New Jersey
Landscape Project Version 3.1 - State of New Jersey
Landscape Project Version 3.1 - State of New Jersey
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CHAPTER 2 | NEW JERSEY’S DIVERSE LANDSCAPES | 13CHAPTER 2<strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong>’s Diverse <strong>Landscape</strong>s<strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong>’s dunes, beaches, tidal marshes, cedar swamps, vast pitch pine forests,extensive grasslands, peat bogs, maple-oak forests, ridgetops, brackish bays, rivers,streams and the Atlantic Ocean support an amazing array <strong>of</strong> wildlife. at is truedespite the fact that much <strong>of</strong> its diverse landscape has been greatly altered byhuman enterprises such as agriculture and development that fragments and degradeswildlife habitat. Sustaining wildlife populations over time requires largehealthy landscapes with broad expanses <strong>of</strong> natural habitat. us, the <strong>Landscape</strong><strong>Project</strong> focuses on ecoregions or <strong>Landscape</strong> Regions where plant and animal communitiesare ecologically similar and closely interlinked.The Palisades cliffs rising nextto the Hudson River are one <strong>of</strong>the historic habitats for nestingPeregrine Falcons, which recolonizedthe area in 2003 after anabsence <strong>of</strong> more than 50 years.<strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong>’s <strong>Landscape</strong> Regions.