New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve Essays

  • New Jersey Pine Barrens

    571 Words  | 2 Pages

    Plants make up most of the Pine Barrens. For instance, pine trees such as the short needles, pitch pines, jack pines, long needles, yellow pines, and many others make up most of the pine forest in the Pinelands. Other trees include the pine oaks and the cedar trees. Due to the roots of these cedar trees, water in the Pine Barrens appears a brownish red color. This happens because the roots emit pigments of red color into the soil which then runs into the water. Even though the amount of red pigment

  • The Jersey Devil: Fact or Fiction?

    1017 Words  | 3 Pages

    usually a person, usually a female, which is going through puberty and sometimes emotionally stressed (MPI, 2009-2014). The Jersey Devil is a mythical creature in the New Jersey Pinelands that have haunted New Jersey for 260 years. It intimidated towns and made factories closed as well as schools, but some people believe it is an old legend. There are 2,000 sightings of the Jersey Devil, which is too many to say that is it a legend. Dave Julian said, “It was about three feet and half high, with a head