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Delicately Balanced Between Land and Water – Home to a Wide Variety of Plants and Wildlife – Encircled by Highways and Bordered by Cities
Monday April 14 at 9:30 pm • Sunday, April 20 at 3:30 am • Monday, April 21 at 12:30 am
Rivers
and streams wind through open space, under bridges
and roadways, past towns and historic sites, and
near habitat that is home to numerous bird species.
Since
the time of the pilgrims, more than half of the
wetlands in the lower 48 states have been destroyed.
Often misunderstood, America’s wetlands are
commonly seen as wastelands – too wet to
be easily built upon or farmed, yet a perfect breeding
ground for mosquitoes. Now recognized as a critical
natural resource, the tide is turning for wetlands.
This change in attitude has inspired individual
action as well as major policy changes to help
protect, preserve and revitalize these special
places.
Shot in High Definition video, this
half-hour documentary showcases the hidden beauty
of the tidal areas in and around the Hackensack
Meadowlands of northern New Jersey and the Hamilton -Trenton
Marsh just south of the state capital of Trenton.
Travel these wetlands with NJN and be surprised
at what you see.
Appearing in the Program
Dr. Charles Leck, Retired Professor of Ecological Sciences at Cook College, Rutgers University;
Dr. Mary Allessio Leck, Retired Professor of Biology at Rider University;
Gabrielle Bennett-Meany, Outreach Naturalist for the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission;
Bill Sheehan, Executive Director and Founder of the Hackensack Riverkeeper;
Don
Smith, Retired Senior Naturalist with the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission;
Ralph Tiner, Nationally Recognized Expert on Wetlands and Author;
And More
Production
Team
Turning the Tide is co-produced by
Lynn Kosek Walker, writer,
and Bob Szuter, editor.
The executive producer is Janice Selinger.
Narrated by Avery Brooks. Original Music
composed by Robert Sands. Camera and audio by Mike
Budd, Paul Horvath, Aubrey Kauffman, Scott
Neall and Jeff Reisly.
This has been a co-production of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and NJN Public Television
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Funding made possible in part by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Ramapo College of New Jersey
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