![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t want to get into the whole, your three day fishing license does not cover you to drive onto the beach, but I bit my tongue. Oh and they did tell me they had a three day temporary beach tag. Had it not been for the tournament on the beach today there may not have been anyone to help these guys at all. Then he said maybe his buddies should start following the website so they would know the conditions before they speed onto a beach and run into a tide pool (swale). He said, “ I follow your website and even I know not to drive through the water.” He said a few other colorful things about his buddy, but there are children reading this, to which I agreed. Long story short, we pulled these guys out, their buddy showed up to help them and looked at me and we both had a good laugh. Corby said to me before we pulled up close, I am going to have to help these guys, they are jammed up, and we have to take this rack off the front. I asked which part, the sinking or driving through the water? You NEVER drive through water on sand on the east coast, Florida sure, that is different sand. Then they proceed to tell us this never happens in New Jersey. They look at us and say … “ The sand behind us is deep and right in front, but six feet forward and back it is fine.” Ummmm no it is not, I tell them, you just created a much softer spot is all. We see the Jeep buried to the frame, deep, and these guys are standing in knee deep sand next to the Jeep. Since we are riding up and down the beach to check on anglers for recording catches, we were headed that way anyway. They sank to the frame so fast they probably got whiplash. Soooooo, what had happened was, Jim said the guys came past him a “hellin” and just went full speed ahead across the swale, they never made it a foot past the water’s edge. “Hey check this out!” There is a Jeep stuck to the frame on the surf side edge of the tide pool. ![]() Sooooooooo, today while I was riding along with Corby Fulton, we get a text. They are the area that fills up with water during high tide and forms a pool or long “creek” like body of water. The past few days I have seen this happen to a few people and the past year it has happened many times after the beaches are carved from storms and these tide pools form on the back side of the “hump” of sand near the surf, these pools are known as swales, which is a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land. Now your island is about be flooded by the incoming tide washing across the new sandbar you are parked on, and your vehicle will sink to the frame. Then you are on an island, but wait, there is more bad news. You can drive to the surf at low tide, but the water WILL come in behind you and fill in the tide pools. If you are driving onto the beaches after these storms, be aware of your surroundings. October 2015) … I say it all of the time in fishing reports and recently in the storm updates. Staff and volunteers utilize the most current and effective mechanical and chemical methods to control the most aggressive invasive plants.Today’s entertainment, the Jeep stuck deep. These plants out-compete our native plants reducing native plant diversity which, in turn, can negatively impact native animals that depend on native plants. Dealing with Aggressive Invasive PlantsĪggressive invasive plants are a serious problem to the health of wildlife habitats in the Delaware region. These meadows are maintained by seasonally timed mowing and controlled burning. These meadows consist of fields that have been let to return, naturally, to meadow by simply discontinuing agricultural practices and fields that have been replanted with native grasses and flowering plants. Native meadows have been created in several abandoned agricultural areas on our sites. Ensuring proper hydrology and vegetation quality is essential for the health of these wetlands. Our wetlands include freshwater non-tidal, freshwater tidal, ephemeral pools, palustrine woodlands, millponds, floodplains of piedmont and coastal plain streams, and saltmarsh. Wetlands abound on our sites and management of these important habitats is essential is critical for some of our most uncommon plants and animals. These trees and other plants will one day begin to replace some of our lost forest thus providing essential habitat for many species that rely on forest habitat. Restoration of forest by planting native tree and shrub has been undertaken on most of our sites. Forest Restorationįorest once was the dominant habitat in our area pre-European colonization. Our wildlife habitat restoration restores habitats to as natural a condition as possible. All of the land in our area has been disturbed to some extent by people’s activities.
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