Environmental

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    Lake Lily: Pirates, Spies, and Swans

    Text by | Published March 1st, 2012 in Cape May Magazine • Environmental

    Peaceful, picturesque Lake Lily has had a swashbuckling past.

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    Cape May’s First Annual Green Film Series

    Text by | Published April 15th, 2010 in Environmental • Events

    Earth Day is 40 years old this April. And to celebrate, the Cape May Film Society is hosting a special Green Film Series and kicking it off with one of the best environmental film to come along in years.

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    Artificial Reefs: Insurance for Future Fishing

    Text by | Published November 1st, 2009 in Environmental • Fishing • Off the Hook

    The Cape May Reef is man-made and is the largest artificial reef, at 4.5 square miles, and the oldest artificial reef site in New Jersey.

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    Blame it on Mother Nature

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2009 in Environmental

    Cove beachgoers will have to check the tide charts and make sure their bathing is at low tide until Mother Nature decides to shine down on the little strip of beach at the end of Cape May.

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    Hot Dogs & Soda for Cape May Point

    Text by | Published April 1st, 2009 in Cape May Point • Environmental

    Hot dogs, sodas and bicycles are coming to Cape May Point State Park this summer. For the first time in its 38 year history, Cape May Point State Park is advertising for vendors – one for a mobile food concession and another for bicycle rental.

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    Rebuilding a Beach

    Text by | Published January 1st, 2009 in Cape May Magazine • Environmental

    The Island’s beautiful tide-washed strand creates a place for the very best of natural experiences, but can you believe most of this seascape is man-made?

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    To dephrag or not dephrag?

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2004 in Cape May Point • Environmental

    That is the question currently being posed by residents of Cape May Point as well as the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the City of Cape May, and the New Jersey Audubon Society (NJAS) as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves forward with a plan to spray the glyphosate-based herbicide Rodeo on 57 acres of [...]

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    Waiting for Isabel in Cape May…

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2003 in Cape May • Environmental • In Pictures • Weather

    Pictures from Hurricane Isabel in September 2006.

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    Desalination: Cape May Leads the Northeastern U.S.

    Text by | Published October 1st, 2000 in Environmental

    “Water, water, everywhere —nor any drop to drink…”* Cape May’s Desalination Plant’s no Albatross! *Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his legendary poem “Ryme of the Ancient Mariner” There can be no debate, water is the sustenance of life. As the world’s population and demands increase, natural resources deplete. Today’s worldwide water crisis has forced [...]