News - Hackensack River
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Mike Jennings of PSEG Power, +1-973-430-6406, +1-973- 508-6386 cell NEWARK, N.J., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 'If you build it; they will come.' That was the hope when a group of PSEG volunteers dedicated to restoring the Hackensack River Watershed's ecosystem, along with Jersey City students, erected six osprey nesting platforms at the Hudson generating station.
By Scott Fallon, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Jun. 27--The number of worms, crustaceans and other small invertebrates in the Hackensack River has increased threefold since the 1980s, indicating that the flowing water is cleaner than it has been in years, scientists said Thursday.
Several wild turkeys and hundreds of bobolinks were among the unexpected finds of a two-year study of birds in the Meadowlands.
By Joseph Ax TEANECK The township has named a section of Brett Park after resident Marvin Mausner, an environmentalist, arts activist and musician who died in March.