
DECEMBER 11, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015, 12:31 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Conservancy to continue work
To the Editor:
This time of year gives us a chance to reflect on the recent past. The Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands is extremely grateful for the community support we have received. Without this, we never would have been able to accomplish all that we have in 2015. Our tasks have been numerous, from continuing the plantings at North Broad Street, running a Second Annual Daffodil Festival in conjunction with the Ridgewood Environmental Advisory Committee, placing a large decorative planter at the train station plaza, planting 5,000 more daffodil bulbs towards our ultimate goal of one for each resident, to organizing a cleanup at Twinney Pond Park with the Ridgewood Wildscape Association.
Twinney Pond Park is a unique ecological gem, a kettle pond dating back to the ice age. Ridgewood native and Rutgers ecologist Jean Epiphan has completed a thorough report on the vegetation. It has been determined that by removing the worst of the invasives and replanting with natives in the spring, that we will be able to help preserve this extraordinary park. We are making this project an ongoing educational opportunity for our Ridgewood students. Our Dec. 6 cleanup was a huge success and brought in countless community volunteers of all ages.
Our goal is to keep working on projects throughout the village, to enhance and improve our wonderful and varied parks. As we embark on our Annual Membership Drive, we urge you to look at our website to find out more information on our projects and to sign up to help: cfrpl.org.
Our sincere thanks for your support and our best wishes for the holiday season.
Cynthia Halaby
President
Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands
Yup, I am proud of the better half. Or should I say the better seven-eights?
I live near Twinney’s and have been frequenting the area for years. For the past few years there have no longer been any frogs in the pond in spring. I wonder why. There used to be many.
A website on Twinney’s says the pond has American bullfrogs and green frogs. No longer.
I wonder if a chemical in being put in the pond that is poisonous. . Or if the conservancy over cleans and takes away a necessary plant or source of insects for the successful breeding of the frogs.
I miss them.
Here is the website that mentions the frogs that are supposed to be at Twinney’s in spring and summer.
If you guys who tout yourselves as experts don’t know frogs are missing, it means you are incompetent to assess the health of a woodland.
https://njurbanforest.com/2011/06/06/ridgewoods-twinney-park/
Rurik, hate to dispute your math since you are so smart, but she is 100% of the better in your twosome.
Agreed Anon. 9:20
There’s no water
For the record, Anon 8:27, this was the first year the Conservancy was involved in a clean-up. It consisted of physically removing invasive plants and the work was done under a Rutgers environmentalist who did a superb job cataloging the plants in the park. No chemicals were used. I share your concerns about what is happening to frogs globally. They are being challenged by climate change and environmental degradation.
For the record Anon 8:27 this was the first year the Conservancy was involved in a cleanup of Twinney. The work consisted of physically removing invasive plants under the supervision of a Rutgers environmentalist who did a superb job cataloging the plants. For the record no chemicals were used. I share your concerns about what is happening to frogs globally. They are the canaries in the pit mines and may be a harbinger of what we all face because of climate change and environmental degradation.
let me get this straight ,the Village failed and ruined the pond by draining it , screwing around with its eco system and its”global warming” , oy vey !
Please just stop politicizing your effort by uttering the phrase “climate change” unless by doing so you sincerely do not wish to lay a guilt trip on people who have more than 1.2 children. Unquestioning adherence to junk science will only serve to confine your eco-army to political progressives. It might feel good to be so certain of your moral superiority to so-called global-warming deniers, but the costs associated with restricting your supporters to like-minded political progressives are simultaneously real and unnecessary.
Isn’t “Consevancy” all about getting the frogs to “conseve” more?
Paul Smith, you are a riot!
I do try. Thank you, you’ve been a great audience! Next week I am at Grossinger’s with Jan Murray and Red Buttons….
Hey Paul your dating yourself LOL
Guess I should remove my Mo Udall for president bumper sticker then….