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| Northern Gray Treefrog with its excellent camouflage |
The CHANJ project (Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey) is designed to help wildlife to find their way through a fragmented world by making New Jersey's landscape friendlier to wildlife movement.
Land animals move throughout the day and year to find resources including food, shelter, and each other for mating.
Fortunately, NJ is also a recognized leader in preserving open spaces for recreation, agriculture, and nature. Nearly one-third of the state’s landmass is now in permanent preservation, thanks to steadfast public support and tremendous capital investments. In fact, NJ boasts a higher percentage of publicly-owned forest land than any other state east of the Mississippi (Widmann 2004).
===Join us! Try out the interactive CHANJ Mapping to see where you fit into New Jersey's connectivity puzzle, and find guidance on how you can support wildlife habitat connectivity in your backyard, in your town, or beyond. While we're all spending more time at home these days, Chapter 4 (page 9) has some fun resources for making a wilder yard for pollinators, birds and other fellow Earthlings.
You can also do your part very locally by making your own property a Jersey-Friendly Yard which offers a variety of resources to help home and property owners learn about environmentally sound landscaping techniques.
Here are some other backyard suggestions about Environmentally Friendly Landscaping
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