Endangered NJ Birthday

Spring always reminds me that another year has passed for Endangered New Jersey. I started posting in February 2009 and we are entering our sixth year. With almost 700 posts, we get a fair number of visitors (about 157,000 so far) and hopefully they find out more about our state.

When I started it was partially because I have volunteered in the state's Wildlife Conservation Corps, Speakers Bureau for a few decades, especially for things related to threatened and endangered species. Giving talks to groups made me aware of how many people in NJ don't know about what we have here and what we might lose in our natural world.

Of course, I also am happy that this site gets lots of visitors from outside NJ and I hope it has some positive impact on our state's image which too often gets bashed by the national media.

This past year, the most popular posts (old and new) have been:

• Wolves in New Jersey,
• Successful Comeback for Bald Eagle in New Jersey
• Are Bees Endangered?
• ASMFC Horseshoe Crab Board Extends Addendum
• Encountering Bobcats in New Jersey
• The Lenni-Lenape, New Jersey's Original People
• Honey Bees
  
• Bobcat Sighting More Frequent in New Jersey
• NJ's Watchung Mountains
• New Jersey's Two Venomous Snakes
• NJ's Watchung Mountains
• NJ Deer in Their Rutting Period

Our visitors come primarily from this top 10 list of countries (in order):

1. United States
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. United Kingdom
5. Canada
6. France
7. Ukraine
8. Poland
9. China
10. India

Thanks for taking a look at the site.