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Wattles Preserve, Mansfield Township

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In 2009 this project was awarded  $7500 from CRI and Elizabethtown Gas through CRI’s Carbon Sequestration and Restoration Grant Program.

New Jersey Audubon Society is restoring 40 acres of warm season-grasses at their recently acquired Wattles Preserve. This preserve will serve as the new location of the NJAS Conservation Program. The warm-season grasses will be harvested and pelletized and used to fuel a biomass-pellet furnace that will heat the new NJAS offices. The grant funds will be used to pay for the restoration project as well as proposed monitoring of the biomass harvested at the site – one measure of the amount of carbon sequestered.

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Pin Oak Forest, Woodbridge Township

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In 2009 this project was awarded  $5000 from CRI and Elizabethtown Gas through CRI’s Carbon Sequestration and Restoration Grant Program.

This is a unique carbon sequestration project designed to trap carbon dioxide and reduce greenhouse gases in the forest and surrounding region.

CRI is working with the Township of Woodbridge, and in consultation with the NJDEP Office of Climate and Energy, to document the baseline condition of the property to be restored, including soil type, management history, baseline carbon levels, and species inventory.

In April of 2010, project volunteers planted 2,400 Sweet gum, Black gum and Red maple trees.  The Pin Oak Forest, a former polluted area which is home to the headwaters of the Woodbridge River, is now a reclaimed and nearly pristine open space resource.  The two-acre planting area will be monitored over the next two years to determine how much greenhouse gas is being sequestered by the growing trees.

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Woodbridge Township Tree Planting
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St. Michael’s Afforestation Project

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In 2009 this project was awarded  $5000 from CRI and Elizabethtown Gas through CRI’s Carbon Sequestration and Restoration Grant Program.

This St. Michael’s site was used historically as a farm dump, dating back to the latter part of the nineteenth century. It was largely unmanaged during the last part of the 20th century. In order to facilitate cleanup in 2009, all vegetation was removed from the site, the dump was cleaned up, new soil was brought in, and the site was seeded.

When D&R Greenway received a grant from CRI’s Carbon Sequestration program in 2009, the site was fenced and planted with tree and shrub seedlings. It is now being used as a demonstration site for restoring landscapes and sequestering carbon.

Native shrubs and trees planted include:

  • Shagbark hickory
  • Ironwood
  • Flowering dogwood  
  • Persimmon
  • Beech
  • Red cedar
  • Tulip
  • Virginia pine
  • Chestnut oak, Red oak, White oak, Black oak, Pin oak, Swamp white oak
  • Green ash
  • Black gum
  • Sycamore
  • Shadbush
  • Winterberry
  • Spicebush
  • Bayberry
  • Arrowwood
  • Elderberry
  • Swamp rose
  • Staghorn sumac
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