Bird vs. Fish

Landscaping: The Tree Edition

This year, I finally figured out how to get plants from the tree farm I’d kept meaning to visit: I was delighted to find they went to native plant fairs, and one was in my birth city! So I went home for the weekend and was able to get the species I’d been planning for […]

New Site Title

I have updated the site title to match the new domain, and the new themes to be explored here 🙂

Flower Walk

Again, it’s summer, so allow me to share some re-wilding (well, sorta…) that I’ve been up to in my yard. I do enjoy varietals, so excuse the not strict wild-typing here. Otherwise, I have several natives to at least the state level, if not county. (Probably my next project is going to be separating that […]

ASAP Fish Model

As mentioned in my prior post, I intend to do some walk-throughs and take some notes on some fisheries analysis processes. Right now, I’m going to add some notes on where I’m at, which is not the beginning! Ideally, more tutorials to come, and more content to be presented in order 🙂 Currently, we’re working […]

Yard Tree Candidates

From the list native to the county that would also produce some yummy fruits (for me and the birds) or add conservation value…

My First Fisheries Post!

Disclaimer: anything published here on my blog is my own personal content, and does not necessarily reflect the views or positions of NJDEP. One of my primary responsibilities of my still-new (i.e. as of this year) job is to work on stock assessments. As such, I’ve been on a steep learning curve of the assessment […]

Wetland Regulation Notes

Agencies responsible for federal regulations… Department of Defense U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (formerly the Soil Conservation Servic

Weekend Fish

Checking out some podcasts… https://www.buzzsprout.com/1354804/episodes/7101622-stripers-bluefish-weakfish-regional-update-w-charles-witek “I think [weakfish are] coming back now. I am a diehard…and I am seeing evidence of 2 or 3 year classes in great south bay now where before…they’re not huge year classes, but they’re larger than what I’ve seen over the last 5 years or so, so I think we’re […]

Fish

Some commentary from around the mid-Atlantic… https://oneanglersvoyage.blogspot.com/2022/05/sometimes-we-need-to-admit-that-fish.html https://oneanglersvoyage.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-we-really-want-politicians-to-manage.html

New Site Coming & Life Updates!

I have recently started a new job in the Marine Bureau of NJ Dept of Environmental Protection! (Here is where I add the disclaimer that anything published on my blog is my own personal content, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of NJDEP.) I will still get to interface with Aves insofar […]