< October 2012 >

Volunteers are needed to help plant native trees, shrubs, grasses and wildflowers for wildlife inside Cox Hall Creek Wildlife Management Area in southern Cape May County.

The entrance for Cox Hall Creek WMA is at the intersection of Bybrook & Delview Rd. We'll meet in the parking area. The area where we'll be working is right next to the parking area. Restrooms are on site. We'll provide some light refreshments.

Please bring some landscaping/planting tools, shovels, work gloves etc...that you can use to help plant stuff.

Heavy rain will cancel. We will also be working on this on 10/11.

Oakland Farmers Market features a non-profit organization each Saturday. On Saturday, October 13th, CWF will be the featured organization. Come and visit the farm market, say hello to CWF, and learn a bit more about our programs and projects.

We will be participating in the B. Bay Blitz in Little Egg Harbor Twp. We plan to focus our work on Great Bay Blvd, where our Terrapin Project is based. We also plan to have a team to help mend and repair our barrier fence on GBB.

Duties: Volunteers are asked to help pick up trash in the Barnegat Bay watershed. Trash bags will be provided by the Twp. or DEP for the trash clean up. For those who would like to help mend and repair our barrier fencing volunteers are needed to help fasten and hang a plastic mesh fence to metal posts with zip ties. Metal posts may need to be replaced and or installed where they have been vandalized or stolen. Some sections of the fence may need to be pushed into the ground more (it was installed in a trench) with shovels. Also, brush needs to be picked up along the length of the fence where brush mowing took place this past winter. Some other brush might need to be cut back in places with shears and pruners.

We will go for a short hike alongside the canal and experience the park after dark. Learn about nocturnal animals and their unique behaviors and adaptations.

Roast marshmallows over a campfire and listen to ghost stories of the Atlantic!