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The State We're In Fish & Game Plan is Un-Bearable Il> David F. Moore One needn't be a naturalist to feel a stirring at the sight or even the thought of big native American wild animals resuming their former niches in the web of life of this state we're in. Like bears, for instance. Actually, bears have never quite left New Jersey. They're not uncommon in the wilder parts of our state's northwestern woodlands, with the local population getting a boost from bears which decide to swim the Delaware River from Pennsylvania. But in the Pinelands? Nary a bear there for more than half a century. Therefore, I find it difficult to sort out my emotions upon hearing that New Jersey’s ever-active Div. of Fish, Game and Wildlife has quietly unleased a plan to return bear population to the Pinelands. Outdoors columns in a number of newspapers launched that news a few weeks ago. AS I SAID, it's a romantic notion to think of bears in our wilds. And coyotes and wildcats and maybe even wolves. Coyotes appear to be returning on their own; wildcats are being reintroduced by the same division which is promoting bears. As far as I know, nobody is pushing wolves. At least not yet. All of these animals, in one way or another, have adjusted the geographical limits'of their habitats to make way for the influx of non-Indian humans who have blown their neighborhoods over the past few centuries. Wild animals know when it’s time to leave and sometimes, as with coyotes, when it’s time to move back in again. But bears need so much territory per animal, rove so far and wide, and create such spectacular and usually uncalled-for problems with humans — that it seems they are bom losers. They are big and cute and eat honey, wild fruits and various animals. Everybody equateSythem with various Disney-type cartoon animals. \ IT’S NOT THE BEAR’s fault that doting people pften try to hand him a cookie. Sometimes the bear judges the hand to be more appetizing then the cookie, with predictable results which are usually fatal to the bear. People, too, seldom realize that any large, omnivorous wild animal is to be M*ft to its own devices. Under those circumstances, bears usually go their own way and avoid humans. But bears are adaptable enough to learn that people’s garbage cans usually contain tasty snacks. Ditto for people’s bee hives and bluberry patches. , Now you're getting my drift. If the D^. of Fish, Game and Wildlife succeeds in reestablishing bears in the Pinelands, which shouldn’t really be too difficult, the romance of the return of a native species will pH too soon be tarnished by complaints of bear damage and possibly more serious happenings. I'M AFRAID THAT the Div. is really more interested in establishing a new target for hunters that it is in the restoration of a species. I've got no quarrel with hunting or hunters, but I think there are enough species to shoot at already in America's most densely populated state. If they want bears, they should field an expedition to Pennsylvania, Maine or someplace else which offers that kind of sport. Bringing back bears to become moving targets for hunters won’t represent an improvement from the bear's standpoint, and can spell serious problems to the agricultural interests in and near the Pinelands. David Moore it executive director of the N. J. Conservation Foundation.

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Art League Sets Summer Classes

CAPE MAY - Mrs. Helen Clark Dilday, artist in residence at the County Art League, 1050 Washington St., announced the summer schedule of classes to be held at the League. There will be a four-day-watercolor workshop for beginners to be given by Dorothy Truman-Repman. at 9:90 a.m. July 14-17. FOUR-DAY WATERCOIiOR workshop for intermediates by Dorothy Truman-Repman, at 9:30 July 21-24. Watercolor workshop by Alice Steer Wilson, 9:30 a m. Aug. 11-14. Ceramics workshop with limited enrollment, taught Cape To Cape Trip Is Topic STONE HARBOR - Letty Parks, a member of the Jersey Cape Shell Club; will be the speaker 8 p.m. Monday July 6, at the meeting of the club at the Wetlands Institute, Stone Harbor Blvd. \ Parks, a dedicated shell collector and photographer, will preseri “From Cape Breton to Cape Lookout,” the 5,000-mile trip she and her daughter took recently. TTie public is invited.

Workshops In Drama, Puppetry

COLD SPRING - An eight-wek session of creative drama and a puppetry workshop will be offered by Fred Michael of Pittsburgh, Pa., at the Joanne Reagan Studio, 1037 Sea Shore Rd.. June 29-Aug. 17. Michael is director of the Mad Hatter Marionette Co. of Pittsburgh. His professional experience has been mainly in ^children’s

theatre. He recently finished the marionette role of “Prince Friday’’ on the “Mr. Rodgers’ Neighborhoods” TV show. THE PUPPETRY workshop will include hands-on experience in constructing a puppet, and development of dramatic techniques. Both workshops will climax in a dramatic com-

position .by the students and a puppet show written and built by students, which will be performed the week of Aug. 21.

The sessions are open to children and teenagers. Special sessions may also be offered to adults. For further information, call 884-0062, 884-2600, or 396-8041.

by Beverly Henry 9:30 a. m. July 13, 14,16 and 17. Monday and Tuesday, July 13, and 14 classes held at the League. Thursday and Friday. July 16 and 17, students go to Dennisville to learn how to build a sawdust kiln and fire their work. BEGINNING JULY 15. on Wednesday mornings from 9:30 to 12* Anita Currier will teach basic drawing for students in all stages of skill. Classes continue for six weeks. Children's art classes will start Tuesday, July 7, for eight weeks. Classes run from 10 a m. to 12. The classes will be taught by Adrienne Pellet-Crunden. Classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday for the eight weeks.

viewpoint HURRICANE—the 1 . * / Coastal Danger By Jane Ann Cunningham Those of us who live, work or visit on the Jersey Shore tend to be very apathetic to a very real danger. We are now in the hurricane season, and our coastal areas are extremely vulnerable. Those who.haven’t experienced these awesome storms r or seem their destruction tend to take warnings lightly. The high tides of last October, the brush with Belle a few years ago, and even the severe winter storm in the early '60s cannot compare with the devastation caused by being hit full force by a hurricane. Many experts think we are .King overdue. WHILE IT ISN’T PLEASANT oh balmy, summer, vacation days to think about such catastrophic events, hurricanes are possibilities, here, and should*!* considered i We hope thei weaknesses which surfaced during the evacuation procedure for Belle have been strengthened (long lines of carii fleeing the storm stopped at toll booths until finally the orddi^was given to let the cars proceed through without stopping!.) All we as private citizens can do is follow the direction of the authorities, whom we presume have plans made for such an eventuality IF, AND WHEN, warnings do come, take them seriously. Don't be like the people we read about in Florida who decided to remain behind in' hazardous areas participating in hurricane parties' only to lose their lives! In the Virgin Islands, two of the legal holidays are Supplication Day and V I. Thanksgiving Day. The first, in the spring, is a day set aside (0 pray to be spared from hur ricanes; the second, in the fall, is a day of thanks for having passed another hurricane season Jane Ann Cunningham is'former publisher of the Herald. Exhibit On Insects

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STONE HARBOR - “Up * Close — A Photographic Look at Familiar Insects" Elodie and Jim Driscoll ill be on exhibit at the Wetlands Institute from July 1 to July 23. Using color macrophotography, the Driscolls have captured, the intricate beauty of members of nature's

largest family.

The Driscolls are members of the Ridgewood

Camera Club and have presented exhibits and nature slide programs throughout the state. The Wetlands Institute on Stone.Harbor^Btttf. is open from 9 to 5 Tuesday though Saturday Visitors are welcome. Admission is by donation. Museum, observation tower, bookstore and trais are open, for further Information call 368-1211.

SOLAR ENERGY SEMINAR \ BY SOUTH JERSEY SOLAR "EXPLORING SOLAR ENERGY" MONDAY, JUNE 29th FROM 7 P.M. UNTIL 9 P.M. v AT THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE IN STONE HARBOR FIND OUT ABOUT USING SOLAR ENERGY IN YOUR HOME FREE ADMISSION REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED PLtASt CALL 399-5949 FOR ADVANCE REGISTRATION SOUTH 124>^A WEST AVE. JERSEY SOLAR 3 "- 5949

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