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NJ Pine Barrens Maritime-Culture-Landscape 1 1 2024

Pine Barrens forests, striking waterways, narrow lakes, bogs, ghost towns, furnaces and more. NJ Pinelands National Reserve landscape tells the tale of a time when glaciers covered this land, when ship-building towns ruled, when Ben Franklin spoke of preserving the one million acres of the Pine Barrens, when pirates sailed and where NJ sets the standard of heritage. This 500 page presentation of the Pinelands National Reserve maritime cultural landscapes, shows a great expanse of time. It includes six major Pinelands National Reserve watersheds: Rancocas Creek, Toms River, Mullica River, Great Egg Harbor River, Maurice River, Cohansey River. Explore, discover, enjoy a peek into the Pinelands National Reserve fascinating maritime landscapes, more often forgotten than remembered. A step back in time, a step forward to the future.

Pine Barrens forests, striking waterways, narrow lakes, bogs, ghost towns, furnaces and more.
NJ Pinelands National Reserve landscape tells the tale of a time when glaciers covered this land, when ship-building towns ruled, when Ben Franklin spoke of preserving the one million acres of the Pine Barrens, when pirates sailed and where NJ sets the standard of heritage. This 500 page presentation of the Pinelands National Reserve maritime cultural landscapes, shows a great expanse of time. It includes six major Pinelands National Reserve watersheds: Rancocas Creek, Toms River, Mullica River, Great Egg Harbor River, Maurice River, Cohansey River. Explore, discover, enjoy a peek into the Pinelands National Reserve fascinating maritime landscapes, more often forgotten than remembered. A step back in time, a step forward to the future.

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<strong>Pine</strong>lands National Reserve Tidewaters<br />

<strong>Pine</strong>lands National Reserve watersheds drain into New Jersey's tidewaters.<br />

Rancocas Creek drains west from the <strong>Pine</strong> <strong>Barrens</strong> into the Delaware Rivers tidal estuary. Toms River flows<br />

east across Barnegat Bay Watershed into the Atlantic Ocean. Mullica River runs east into <strong>NJ</strong>’s Great Bay<br />

then into the Atlantic Ocean. Great Egg Harbor River streams into Great Egg Harbor then east into the<br />

Atlantic Ocean. Maurice and the Cohansey Rivers course into the Delaware Bay.<br />

Rancocas Creek’s 360 square mile watershed, 60 year long clarion call, a bell-weather of grass root<br />

advocacy that questions, confronts and challenges conventional wisdom that for the greater good<br />

New Jersey’s Rancocas Creek should be designated a National Water Trail.<br />

N Branch Rancocas Creek Low Tide Timbuctoo<br />

Mark Thomas, Founder Rancocas Conservancy Pathways Rancocas Creek Ambassador<br />

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