Free Admission • Free Shuttle Bus Service FREE t miss the New Jersey Duck Calling Championship. The winner will represent New Jersey at the world championship in Stuttgart, Arkansas,

Free Admission • Free Shuttle Bus Service FREEPARKINGSEE PAGES 6 & 735TH ANNUAL OCEAN COUNTYDecoy & Gunning Show

Dock DogCompetition

As featured

on ESPN

September 23rd & 24th, 2017 7am - 5pm Saturday, 7am - 4pm Sunday

In Historic Tuckerton, NJOver 300 Waterfowling Exhibitors & VendorsTWO SEPARATE LOCATIONS BOTH CONVENIENTLYACCESSIBLE BY FREE SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE

Tip Seaman County Park • Tuckerton SeaportFor More Information Call (609) 971-3085

www.oceancountyparks.orgOcean County Board

of Chosen Freeholders

John C. Bartlett, Jr.Chairman of Parks & Recreation

Virginia E. Haines • John P. KellyGerry P. Little • Joseph H. Vicari

Various Hunting Supplies,Displays, Contests, MusicFood, Antique Collectible

Decoys and so much more!

OCEAN COUNTY DECOY & GUNNING SHOW 1

The Ocean County Board of ChosenFreeholders and the Ocean CountyDepartment of Parks & Recreationwould like to welcome you to the2017 Ocean County Decoy & GunningShow.Every year the show has gotten bigger

and better with the help of you, theparticipant. There will be more than300 exhibitors’ spaces, with more than20,000 visitors expected.

DON’T MISS BOTH LOCATIONSTip Seaman County Park and theTuckerton Seaport & Baymen’sMuseum.Find a parking place at the High

School on Nugentown Road or Free-dom Fields County Park on Route 539.Once you park, the free shuttle buseswill drop you off at the show sites from8:30am to 5:00pm both days. Ourshow hosts and hostesses will greetyou with a warm, friendly smile andexplain the events of the day.We have something for everyone,

including decoys, dogs, boats, wildlifeart, wildlife carvings, gunning supplies,antique fishing and hunting parapher-nalia, duck and goose calls, clothing,carving supplies and decoy/boat lumber.

For music lovers, some of the mostfamous Pine Barrens bands andsoloists will grace us with their musi-cal talents.More than 50 contests and seminars

will be held at the show sites duringtwo action-packed days.Don’t miss the New Jersey Duck

Calling Championship. The winnerwill represent New Jersey at the worldchampionship in Stuttgart, Arkansas,in November.Join us for lunch as our numerous

food vendors tempt your appetite withthe mouth-watering aromas of deli-cious treats. This year’s menu featuresclams and oysters on the half shell,shrimp, clam chowder, chicken, roastbeef sandwiches, hamburgers and lotsmore. There also will be cold soda andice cream. The show is a great familyevent, with activities for all agegroups. So bring the family and comeon down to Tuckerton for the 35thAnnual Ocean County Decoy & Gun-ning Show.On behalf of the staff, volunteers,

and participating organizations, enjoythe show!

The 35th AnnualOcean County Decoy & Gunning Show

Sponsored by:Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders

Ocean County Department of Parks & RecreationDirector of Parks & Recreation, Michael T. Mangum

Show Coordinator, German GeorgieffAsst. Show Coordinator, Amanda Truhan

In cooperation with: Tuckerton SeaportNew Jersey Waterfowlers

Pinelands Regional School District

Welcome!TO THE 35TH ANNUALOCEAN COUNTY DECOY & GUNNING SHOW!

AT THE SHOWContests

Skeet Shooting, Duck Calling,Retrieving and Decoy Carving,

Art and Photo

ExhibitorsDecoys, Boat Builders, Wildlife Art, Antiques, Sportsmen’s Supplies

MusicMusic of the Pine Barrens

FoodTastes of the Bay, Burgers,

Chicken & a Whole Lot More!

RetrieversWatch the dog and

puppy retriever contests!

GUIDE TO THE SHOW- Show Exhibitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2- Contest Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3- 2017 Show Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4- 2017 Bird of the Year . . . . . . . . . . 6- Show Seminars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7- Music Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . 7- Decoy Show Award Sponsors . . . 8- Seaport Youth Carving Club. . . . 10- 2017 Show Pin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- Hurley Conklin

Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . 12- Past Conklin Award Winners . . . 15- Seaport Site Map . . . . . . . . . . . . 22- Thank You Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24- 2017 Pine Barrens Jamboree. . . . . . . . . . Back Cover

DIRECTIONS TO THE SHOWMAP ON PAGES 4 & 5

2 OCEAN COUNTY DECOY & GUNNING SHOW

Show Exhibitors• Duck Calls • Decoys • Crafts• Kayaks & Canoes • Wildlife Art• Boats • Boat Builders • Bird Carvings• Sportsmen’s Supplies • Antiques• Puppies • Food ... and MoreTwo great loacations of exhibits, presentationsand food - with shuttle service between bothTip Seaman Park and the Tuckerton Seaport.

TUCKERTON RAILROAD– TO –

Beach Haven, N.J.Very Best Shooting, Fishing, Sailing andSurf Bathing, Unexceptionable Hotels.Excursion Tickets via Pennsylvania R.R.

See Pennsylvania Railroad Summer Excursion Route Book and Map.H.N. GILSON, Gen’l Passenger Agent. Tuckerton, N.J.

Reprinted from the 1988 Old Time Barnegat Bay Decoy & Gunning Show Program

Visit the Tuckerton R.R.exhibit at the Seaport.

Explore the past on how visitors first came to theJersey Shore! Make the train ride again!

TIP SEAmAN PARK• A Photography• Bankes Boats• Barnegat Bay Sportsman

Club• Kenneth Barnett’s

Pond Boxes• Bell’s Decoys• Bellport Decoys• Bob Biddle Decoys• Ken Bingham• Birds and Bees

Farm LLC• Birdsall Decoys• Citta Woodcraft• D.D. Decoys• Laurel Dabbs Decoys• Steve Decker• Deep Water Duck• Discount Boots• The Duck Boat Company• The Duck Guru• Alan Eastman• Clarence Fennimore• Flyway Decoys• Joyce C. Gagen - Artist• Good Boy Biscuits &

Bones• Great Bay Reg.

Volunteer EMS• GSP Rescue of NJ• J.P. Hand• Jode Hillman Decoys• Hunters Helping Heroes• Don Kanzler• Mike Kensler-

Woodburned Art• Ken Kirby Decoys• Brett Klaproth Wildlife

Photography• Klue Leather• LEH/Tuckerton PBA 295

• Lloyd & Milnes• Gene Marshall Decoys• Frank McCauley Decoys• McCay Wood Products • Metzger Decoys• Moffit Family Carvers• Murray Enterprises• New Jersey Fur

Harvesters• Oceanic Decoys• Rich Pemberton• Pilesgrove Decoys• Point Blank Layout Boats• R.A.F. Custom Craft• Salem Boat

Exchange LLC• Steven Jay Sanford• John Shores• Southern Flyway

Outfitters• David W. Thibault

Decoys• Rebecca Thibault

Photography & Design• Tips Hardware• USCG Auxiliary

Flotilla 72• West Creek Kayak &

Canoe• West Creek Outboard• Kevin Wharton Decoys• Whispering Pines Kennel

Supplies

PARK TENT• Bayshore Decoys by

Robert Reitmeyer• Captain Larry Decoys• Decoy Magazine• Dux Dekes Decoy

Company• Ralston “Hop” Edwards

• Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

• Fine Feathers Studio• Fowl Foolers, LLC• Vincent Giannetto III• Rich Haines• Bob Horner -

Decoy Rack• Jessen/Kyle Decoys• Knotts Knives by

Cousins LLC • Rob Leslie• S. Leo Milley

Pocket Knives• New Jersey

Lighthouse Society• NJ Department of

Agriculture/Forest Pest Invaders

• NJ DEP - Water• NJ Division of Fish

& Wildlife• NJ Ducks Unlimited• Ocean County Natural

Lands Trust• Ocean County

Department of Solid Waste

• William Oler• ReClam the Bay• Reitmeyer Decoys• Reitmeyer Family

Decoys• David Rhodes• Ritter Carvers Inc.• Save Barnegat Bay• Halvor Skeie Wood

Carvings• Tuckerton Historical

Society

FOOD VENDORS• American Legion Post

493• First Presbyterian

Church• First United Methodist

Church• Italian American Club,

LEH• Masonic Lodge• New Gretna Volunteer

Fire Company• Old Barney Amateur

Radio Club• Parkertown Fire

Company• Ptesan-Wi Council #1• St. Theresa's Church• Tuckerton Library Assoc.• Tuckerton Seaport &

Baymen’s Musuem• VFW Post 316 Little Egg

Harbor


CONTEST SCHEDULENOTE: All contest entries must be checked in at event site by 10:00 am the day of the contest.* See show program for exact schedule

SATURDAY, SEPTEmBER 23 SKEET/DOG AREA- Preliminary Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 7:00 am - 10:00 am- Women's Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 10:00 am - 10:30 am- Youth Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 10:30 am - 11:00 am- Retriever Contest - Puppy 12:30 pm- Retriever Contest - Novice 1:30 pm- Preliminary Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

DECOY TENT- Youth Shorebird Contest 10:30 am - 11:00 am- Delaware River Gunning Decoy Contest 11:00 am - 12:00 pm- Traditional Shorebird Rig Contest 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm- Contemporary Gunning Decoy Contest 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm- Youth Decoy Contests 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm- Shorebird Decoy Contests (Decorative Slick & Traditional) 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm- Miniature Decoy Contests 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm- Barnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Contest - Traditional 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

PARK COmmUNITY CENTER- Art & Photo Contests 11:30 am - 1:30 pm- Decorative Contests 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

PARK- Boat Building Contests (Judging) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

TUCKERTON SEAPORT- Dock Dogs 8:00 am - 4:30 pm*

STAGE- Duck & Goose Calling Contest - Adult 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEmBER 24 SKEET/DOG AREA- Preliminary Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 7:00 am - 11:00 am- World Championship Skeetshoot Finals 11:30 am - 12:00 pm- Retriever Contest - Advanced 1:00 pm

DECOY TENT- Working Fish Decoy Contest 8:30 am - 9:30 am- Delaware River Gunning Decoy Rig Contest 9:00 am - 9:30 am- Barnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Rig Contest 9:30 am - 10:00 am- Cork Gunning Decoy Contest 10:00 am - 10:30 am- Head Whittling Contest 10:00 am - 12:00 pm- Barnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Contest - Contemporary 10:30 am - 11:30 am

PARK COmmUNITY CENTER- Model Boat Contest 10:00 am - 10:30 am

TUCKERTON SEAPORT- Dock Dogs 8:00 am - 4:30 pm*

PARK ATHLETIC FIELD- Archery Contest - Youth 10:30 am - 11:30 am- Archery Contest - Adult 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

STAGE- Duck & Goose Calling Contests - Youth 10:00 am - 12:30 pm- Awards & Conklin Ceremony 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm


35th Annual Ocean County



2017 Bird of the Year

GadwallAnas strepera

The Gadwall is a fairly commonduck along the Jersey Shore.They frequent freshwater lakesand ponds as well as brackishmarshes. They feed by pickingfood off the surface of the wateror dipping their heads underwater to reach slightly submergedfood. They are often seen inmixed flocks with Mallards,Black Ducks, and AmericanWigeon. Unlike the males ofmany other species of ducks, themale (drake) Gadwall is drabberoverall. They have grey sidesand chest with a brown mottledhead. The back is a mix of greyand rusty orange. The tell-tale

mark of a drake Gadwall is thetotally black rump. The female(hen) Gadwall can be harder todistinguish from other species.They are almost the exact samesize as a hen Mallard and havesimilar coloration. A hen Gadwallhas a bright white belly and abright white wing patch while ahen Mallard has a tan belly anda blue wing patch. The drabgrey coloration of the drakeGadwall has earned them thenickname of “Grey duck” amonghunters.

Although Gadwall are a com-monly seen duck now it was not

always that way. Back in thedays of market hunting andlarge scale decoy carving Gad-wall were an uncommon speciesin this region of the Atlanticflyway. When looking at olddecoys, Gadwall decoys arerarely seen even from the area’smost prolific carvers. With theirgradual spread into the BarnegatBay more carvers have beenmaking Gadwall decoys to addto their hunting spreads. Gadwallhave a mild flavor similar to thatof other puddle ducks so theyare eagerly harvested by localhunters.


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2017 Demonstration & Activity

Schedule*SATURDAY, SEPTEmBER 23 TImE LOCATIONDock Dogs Demonstrations See Page 20 Tuckerton SeaportSeaport Heritage Tent Demonstrations All Day ParkTuckerton Creek Boat Rides 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Tuckerton Seaport

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

SUNDAY, SEPTEmBER 24 TImE LOCATIONDock Dogs Competition See Page 20 Tuckerton SeaportSeaport Heritage Tent Demonstrations All Day ParkTuckerton Creek Boat Rides 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Tuckerton Seaport

1:00, 2:00, 3:00

music by The PinesSATURDAY, SEPTEmBER 23 TImE LOCATIONGary Struncius & Debbie Lawton 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ParkBasement Musicians Guild 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Park

SUNDAY, SEPTEmBER 24 TImE LOCATIONGary Struncius & Debbie Lawton 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ParkBasement Musicians Guild 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Park

* Times and events subject to change


2017 Award Sponsors

Please support our sponsorswho have graciously providedthe following plaques

~ If you would like to sponsor a plaque in 2018, please contact Wells Mills County Park at 609-971-3085 ~

BARNEGAT BAY CHAPTER of DELTAWATERFOWLBarnegat Bay Gunning Decoy - Contemporary

Delaware River Gunning Decoy ContestYouth Championship Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox

BRADEN CHIROPRACTIC CENTER517 Hollywood Ave., Toms River, NJ 732-341-4900World Championship Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox

Edward H. McCay Hurley Conklin AwardYouth New Jersey Goose Calling ContestYouth New Jersey Duck Calling ContestYouth Gunning Decoy Contest Ages 14& Under

CLARENCE FENNImOREYouth Gunning Decoy Contest Ages 15 to 17

IN MEMORY OF MATTHEW HAMMELLYouth Barnegat Bay Open Duck Calling Contest

LONG BEACH ISLAND WOODCARVERSTraditional Shorebird Rig Contest

mAXWELL FUNERAL HOmEhttp://www.maxwellfuneralhome.com/609-296-6060Head Whittling Contest

NEW JERSEY DUCKS UNLImITEDwww.ducks.org/new-jerseyBarnegat Bay Gunning Decoy - TraditionalBarnegat Bay Gunning Decoy - Rig Contest

NEW JERSEY WATERFOWLERSwww.njwa.orgState of New Jersey Duck Calling Championship

New Jersey Goose Calling Championship - Open

NORTH BAY GAmE CALLSwww.northbaycalls.com/814-323-6316Barnegat Bay Hunters Duck Calling Championship

RENEE’S ULTImATE PET SITTINGSERVICES609-335-3663Women’s Championship Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox

SEAPORT CARVERS CLUBwww.tuckertonseaport.org/jersey-shore-folklife-center/programs/Youth Shorebird Decoy Contest - Ages 16 & Under

SOUTHERN OCEAN ANImAL HOSPITAL / DR. ROBERT POINSETT319 E main Street, Tuckerton, NJ609-296-3655Retriever Contest - NoviceRetriever Contest - Advanced

STAFFORD VETERINARY HOSPITAL211 N. main Street, manahawkin, NJ(609) 489-5597Retriever Contest - Puppy

TUCKERTON SEAPORT & BAYmEN’SmUSEUm120 W main Street #1, Tuckerton, NJ609-296-8868John Passuth Hurley Conklin Award

WOOD FUNERAL HOmE134 E main Street, Tuckerton, NJ609-296-2414Barnegat Bay Feather-Edged SneakboxContest - Sail & Rowing Division - Traditional

OCEAN COUNTY PARKS & RECREATIONArchery - Waterfowl ShootBest Model Boat Barnegat Bay Sneakbox Contest - Traditional Development Class

Barnegat Bay Sneakbox Contest - Contemporary Class

South Jersey Duck Hunting Boat Open Class - Traditional

Antique South Jersey Gunning Boat Restoration Contest

Contemporary Gunning Boat - Development Class

South Jersey Pond Box ContestTraditional Working Boat ContestMiniature Barnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Contest

Miniature Delaware River Gunning Decoy Contest

Bird of the Year - Barnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Contest - Traditional

Delaware River Gunning Decoy Rig ContestCork Gunning Decoy ContestContemporary Gunning Decoy ContestTraditional Shorebird Decoy ContestDecorative Slick Shorebird Decoy ContestWorking Fish Decoy Contest Decorative Fish Contest Best Decorative Bird ContestYouth Barnegat Bay Goose Calling ContestYouth Art Contest - Ages 11 to 13 Youth Art Contest - Ages 14 to 18 Art - Professional ContestArt - Amateur ContestPhoto - Professional ContestPhoto - Amateur Contest



Tuckerton Seaport’sYouth Carving Club

The Tuckerton Seaport Youth Carving Club partnersyoung people ages 11- 17 with master decoy carversto learn the traditional art of decoy carving, painting,and pattern making. 2015 marks the 10th year of thispopular program. We turn children who have neverpicked up a carving knife into world championcarvers, while mentoring them in life skills andproviding them with positive role models. We are notjust preserving a traditional art, but keeping it aliveby empowering our community and inspiring ouryoung people.The Tuckerton Seaport Youth Carving Club is an important part of the story of carving in New Jersey,which we tell in displays at the Tuckerton Seaportand through presentations by our demonstratingdecoy carvers. Here in Tuckerton, the most influential carver wasHarry V. Shourds. His great-great-grandson, Malcolm Robinson, was one of the first demonstratorsat Tuckerton Seaport and an early member of ourBoard of Trustees. In addition to teaching carving for

adults, Malcolm began teaching the Woodcarving Merit Badge for the Boy Scouts, and he found that he was able to spark an interestfor learning more in the boys who participated. Malcolm thought this would be a great opportunity to finally start something he hadbeen dreaming about for years. Since then, working with the youth has been his passion, and he is joined by Nancee Jo Luciani whojointly runs the club with him. Malcolm primarily teaches knife safety and carving, while Nancee Jo focuses on painting. Students generally stay with the club for 5-6 years.The students produce art pieces that are nationally recognized through competitions. We believe this program is a model that other organizations can emulate. In addition to working with the master carvers, students also work at home on projects and they are encouraged to take adult classes at Tuckerton Seaport with other artists as part of our scholarship program.In addition to passing on the traditional art of decoy carving to another generation and keeping the art alive and dynamic, the studentsalso learn about the culture of carving, the history of our area, the ability to work on both short and long term goals, public speakingskills, and the need to be reliable and devote yourself to a project and to the other members of the group. We’re especially proud of Andrew’s “First in Category” award for his Contemporary Antique bird at the Ward World Competition, as he competed against someof the best carvers in the world, and came in first place, in his first adult competition.Deep relationships have been forged between both students and from students and their mentors. Seventeen year old Scott joined theclub at 12. He says,“For me, carving is about connection- I’ve grown up surrounded by decoys and the people who created them, mostof whom are relatives are mine…Now when my own knife slowly shapes a block of white cedar, transforming it into something entirelynew, I gain a deeper connection- not only with my grandfather, but with my wonderful mentors Malcolm Robinson and Nancee Jo Luciani, and with the other kids in the Youth Carvers Program.”The mentoring students receive in the club translates to success in the rest of their lives. As Sarah’s mom Desiree states, “[Sarah] hasgained a special kind of confidence from carving as well. When you know you have these special skills to make a beautiful creatureout of wood you pretty much know you can face any challenge that comes your way.” Our Board of Trustees and Executive Director consider keeping traditional arts alive through our young people to be one of the mostimportant things that we do as a museum. If you are interested in learning more about participating in the club, please contact JulieHain at [email protected] or call 609-296-8868 x 122.


22ND ANNUALDECOY SHOW COLLECTOR’S PIN

Add To Your CollectionEach year the show highlights one species of waterfowl.

The 2017 commemorative pin features this year’s “Bird of the Year”

- the Gadwall ~ Anas strepera

Look for this cloisonne pin on sale at the Ocean County Parks& Recreation show booth, show gate and the Tuckerton Seaport.

For order information, call Wells mills County Park: 609-971-3085

ONLY $5


HurleyConklinAwardPresented to people whohave lived in the BarnegatBay tradition. This awardhas been named in honor ofthe last of the Great OldTime Barnegat Bay Carvers,Hurley Conklin.

This program is dedicated toall of the Hurley ConklinAward winners ~ past andpresent.

John Passuthby Victoria Ford

John Passuth of Toms Riverbelieves: “Time and tide wait for noman.”

He has hunted ducks, carved decoys, bought and sold boats,caught fish and clams, picked veg-etables, worked a 12-acre farm,butchered chickens and evenwrangled an escaped cow – but hisdogs have always been his primarypassion and true calling.

“If I could attract money like Iattract dogs, I’d be a millionaire,” hesaid.

Passuth was born in 1935 andgrew up in Bayonne, a city sur-rounded on three sides by water, i.e.,Newark Bay, New York Bay, KillVan Kull. “We were always in mudup to our knees as kids,” he said.

Later he spent time in the woodsof Milford, Pa., climbing trees, fish-ing in natural brook trout streams,hunting and trapping.

As a young man he always haddogs, such as setters and beagles.After he got seriously into duckhunting and moved to Toms River in1969 with wife Dolores and family,he rescued his first retriever, aChesapeake. From then on, he alwaysowned, trained, bred, sold, raisedand competed with dogs. “I comealive doing it,” he said. The thrillsare in watching a puppy learn andevolve; in seeing how a huntingdog’s ears respond to the actionword “mark.”

His trade was masonry, like hisdad. A guy he worked with in TomsRiver invited him to go duck hunt-ing in Cedar Run, and he was “mes-merized.” Then he went to a decoyshow in Babylon, L.I., and “I washooked on it.” He got some whitepine and carved a broadbill head. Hethen got some balsa wood andstarted making canvasbacks, blackducks, mallards, a couple of buffle-heads and a big rig of brant. Later hemoved on to cork, then cedar.

“I had built a gunning garvey, andI was dragging that around, goingdown to Brigantine,” Passuth said.“That’s when you were allowed 10ducks a day, six brant, just a fantasticamount of birds. I would go down onthe weekend, and sit and talk to RubeCorliss, watch him carve and work onsneakboxes. He would tell me aboutthe old hunters, different tales.”

The style he eventually developedwas mainly flat-bottomed, Connecticut-style, he said. Now that he’s mostlyretired from dog training, carving stillkeeps him busy in his down time,when he’s inspired. But most carvingnowadays tends to be decorative,which is getting away from the point,in his opinion.

Once he got his first duck boatand created a gun box and made ahunting boat out of it, “then I was,like, on a quest,” he said. “At onepoint I had five sneakboxes in theyard.”

Every aspect of working with thedogs had its own rewards.

With the Shrewsbury River Retriever Club, Passuth served as

This year’s recipients:John PassuthDonated by Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s Museum

Ed McCayDonated by BradenChiropractic Center


president and VP and did a lot of field trials and judging. He gave demonstrations at the Allaire decoy show for fiveyears, then got involved with the Ocean County Decoy and Gunning Show in Tuckerton, back when it was just starting.He enjoyed training gun dogs, but when the field trial circuit was costing him too much time away from his family,he turned his focus more toward hunting and obedience training.

With field trials, the expenses for travel, training and birds got to be a lot after a while, with sanctioned trials atthe club level every weekend, in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. “You can’t keep runningthe same grounds, you gotta move around,” he said. “We had trials on Lakehurst, Fort Dix, private properties.” Hunttests were another way to improve skills, though non-competitive. He did a lot of judging, which he enjoyed, but hegot away from it when he turned pro, and “that was even more beneficial to me.”

As his experience in the outdoors grew, he upgraded to a 26-foot boat, increased his recreational bay work, clamming,crabbing and fishing. “The desire to be with the dogs was always there.”

He had a training group that met on Sundays at the Whiting Wawa – at one point 10 trucks would gather. Hewould also take in dogs and work with them, whether for a few days, weeks or months. That business grew from threekennels to about a dozen kennels with outdoor runs, in addition to his house pets. At one time the Passuth householdincluded two Labs, a Golden, a beagle, a training dog, and all the girls had cats, he said. Once, a client’s dog had alitter of 7 or 8 puppies and when they were six months old the client hired Passuth to train them all. He kenneled andtrained dogs on the farm for 10 or 15 years.

“It was fun, I really enjoyed it. My kids (three girls and one boy) grew up in the back of a pickup truck, out in thebogs.”

During those years, he learned dogs are teachable -- but people usually aren’t.Passuth says training dogs solely with cookies and tender loving care is ineffective. But it can’t be by intimidation,

either. There’s a balance. Different breeds have different temperaments and therefore require different techniques. And each individual dog

is unique. One might need stronger discipline, while another can be controlled with only a look. “If you open the doorand your dog runs out in front of you, he’s dominant. He’s going to lead you where he wants to go,” Passuth said. Butthat’s good, too, he added. “I like a dog that’s right on the edge of exploding to get out there.” It’s important to recognizea dog’s limits and read his stress level, he noted. The bottom line is they want to learn.

“The dogs are great. They always come with an open mind and want to be your friend and want to be petted. Theynever come in anger. Very seldom. That’s usually created.”

Passuth’s relationship with his dogs was always one built on love and trust, almost as if he were the alpha in apack. He was in touch and in tune with them, teaching them to accept him, tending to their needs for exercise. “Theywould eat before I ate.” If he were to lie down with a group of dogs and make his stature lower than theirs, they wouldpanic and try to push him to get him up. He would even bite them from time to time to prove a point.

“You get a dog that doesn’t want to release a bird, when they freeze on a bird – some trainers squeeze the dog’slips. I like to take hold of the bird and step on the dog’s toe.”

As one customer noticed, he had a habit of calling his male dogs“son.”

About bites, he said there was only one time a dog came after him:Once he separated two dogs that were fighting – a small one that had

started a fight with a big one. “And I wouldn’t let (the smaller one) outwith the big dogs anymore, just the puppies. And he went after one ofthe puppies. And I whacked him with a broom. I threw a sponge at him.And he turned around and he’s walking at me, stiff-legged. And I’m backingup, I’m telling him, ‘Heel! Heel!’ and I stumbled. And I had a brand newT-shirt on. And I fell in a puddle, and he leaped, and I had him like this,”he said, his arms above his face. That day he called the dog’s owner.“‘Come and get your dog.’ I sent him home.”

But every dog he ever raised as his own lies buried in the Pines andholds a special place in his heart.

“They take a piece of you,” he said. b


Ed McCayby Victoria Ford

“I don’t know where else I could everlive but the Pinelands,” Edward McCaysaid, having done just about everythinga man can do in the woods and thewater.He was born in Mt. Holly and

brought up in Tabernacle, where his parents’ house remains in the family; henow lives in Nesco, with his wife,Lorraine, and cultivates about 10 acresof blueberries on a 40-acre farm inChatsworth. He and Lorraine have a sonand daughter, six grandkids.He has worked for the New Jersey

Park Service for 30 years; was buildingsand grounds supervisor at Allaire StatePark for 14 years; ran the water-poweredsawmill at Historic Batsto Village inWharton State Forest for about 16 yearsand did historic restoration work there.He has always kept a wood shop forcarpentry jobs, building furniture, boats,molding, private restoration projects,and “once I got established, I had cus-tomers all over the United States withthe decoy wood.”

He was one of the original vendors at theOcean County Decoy and GunningShow, which started in 1983, and he stilldonates the wood for the annual head-whittling contest. He’s worked for theForest Fire Service since he was 18, andnow he’s a District Fire Warden, per-forming forest management tasks, plowing and prescribed burns, creatingfire protection buffers around develop-ments. The southern pine beetle madesome work for him three summers ago,by infesting thousands of trees that hadto be cut down. He clear cut some 20acres.

His love and stewardship of the out-doors has enabled him to make a livingin a variety of ways, doing “a little bit ofeverything” – harvesting cedar, cuttingfirewood, logging, milling, cuttinghuckleberry brush, birch whips, grape-vine, collecting pine cones, sphagnummoss – and he’s always enjoyed hunting,fishing and trapping, too. A trapper sincethe age of 10, McCay specializes inbeaver, fox and raccoon. He’s madetraps for snapping turtles and knitted andset fyke nets. In the ’70s he built a gar-vey and worked the bay to sell clams.He’s carved a few decoys, tried his handat growing various crops, framed andbuilt houses.

He supplements his income with theblueberries. “It was a previously estab-lished farm, but it was an older varietyand little by little I’ve been putting newin.” Blueberries is a rough business, hesaid, with the pruning, irrigating, har-vesting, weather-related issues, peopledon’t realize. “They think, ‘oh, you’vegot blueberries, you just pick them andthey’re gone,’ but, no, that’s a full-timejob.” McCay farms his blueberries100percent organically, which is even morelabor-intensive, with chemical-freeweed and pest control. He’s independ-ent, not a member of the Ocean SprayCooperative. He used to belong to Tru-Blu in Pemberton, then did businesswith a broker in Philly, but that wasn’tconsistent or profitable enough to beworthwhile.

In the tradition of his father, unclesand other relatives, he learned to work

the woods, the water and the land. Win-ter is for harvesting cedar, summer forcutting. (It’s important to get the cedarin January or February when the sap isdown, for carvers and boat builders. “Idon’t want to be in the swamp in thesummer with the ticks,” he said.) Hewould cut for demonstration at Batstoand send wood throughout the state forshingles, fencing, siding, sign material,placards.

“I’ve always had that passion withthe cedar.”

His knowledge of the 200-year-oldmill’s operation is highly specialized,given its age and mechanical complexity,with five saws: planer, cut-all saw, shinglesaw, table saw, long saw.

Though the demand for cedar haschanged, i.e. he used to cut a lot of boatwood, he still does a lot of specializedsiding for restoration work, in placessuch as Cold Spring Village and CapeMay, which uses siding 8 to 10 inchesthick, compared to the standard 6-inch.The supply, too, has changed. A goodstand of cedars is increasingly hard tofind; and wetlands regulations don’tmake it easier.

“When we harvest it, we’re prettyconscientious about it, we’re makingsure everything’s done right,” McCaysaid. “We remove pine, gum and maple,so that swamp’s going to come back intocedar. That’s what a lot of people don’tunderstand. We’re not just going in andclear-cutting for no reason. We’re clear-cutting it so it’s going to come back inAtlantic white cedar.” If only the cedaris removed, he explained, the other treespecies will take over.

If a fire goes through a swamp, thecedar will die while the other speciessurvive. Even if the moss smolders, thecedar’s root system will get damagedand it’ll die right off, McCay said.

“Cedar is really delicate,” he ex-plained. “I cringe whenever I hear abouta fire near any kind of wetlands.”The stand he’s working on currently issome of the biggest mature cedar he’sever cut. The plan is to leave all the edgewood and smaller stuff and take out the


gum and maple in order to let the cedar regenerate. “Only a handful of us left, maybe four that I know of, that cut cedar on a bigger scale.”At his shop he built a solar kiln that’s “working out really well.” In it, he can dry in three weeks in August wood that

would take him eight months to air dry, and he can get the moisture down to 6 or 7 percent, whereas air drying would get itto 14 or 15.

When the cedar supply is low, McCay cuts walnuts, white pine, hickory, a lot of variety. Milled maple, with its nicegrain, is good for benches, he said. Hickory is beautiful for trim, cabinet material, the knottier the better. In cedar, clear isbetter, but it’s a tall order. “A lot of orders are for 15 boards of clear, two-inch cedar; they think you can just walk out intothe yard and cut that. I might cut tree after tree before I can see a nice piece. Without touching a heart, without too muchsapwood in it, it’s really hard to find.” The urban wood often contains nails and other foreign objects such as old musketballs and horseshoes inside the walnuts at Washington Crossing State Park.

Historic restoration is some of the most rewarding work, he said. He loves the old mortise-and-tenon building style. Hecut “every bit of timber” in what is today the Nature Center at Batsto and did a lot of moldings and detail work in the oldBatsto mansion. He steamed ribs for an ore boat, rebuilt raceways for the grist mill and made a grate to catch grasses fromclogging the turbine. He was called in to lead a demonstration at Double Trouble when that mill was refurbished.

McCay said he does all his own harvesting because he loves the woods as a caretaker. “I feel like, if I’m out there doing it, I try to do the best job I can. You go into one of my swamps, you won’t even see a

stump. The stumps are cut down, I slash all the brush down, I try to make sure that it’s going to come back.” He limits hisfootprint in the woods as much as possible by winching all the cedar right to the machine.

The same holds for the cedar back at the mill, he continued. “If you cut that tree down, I feel you better utilize that thebest way you can. I use the slabs, sawdust, everything.”

His latest project is a boat, sort of like a mini garvey-style, but a pond box. “I keep looking at it,” but the project keepsgetting put off. So it goes for a Pinelands man with no shortage of work to be done.

McCay was featured in Bob Birdsall’s coffee table book, People of the Pines, available from Plexus Publishing andthrough the Pinelands Preservation Alliance.

Past Hurley Conklin Award Winners1986 Sam Hunt

1987 Pete Wilbur

1988 Turney Smith

1989 Randall Cranmer, RayKennedy, Hayes Parker,Roger West, Carl Hewitt

1990 Jack Cervetto, ElmerMott, Ed Hazelton Sr., JohnPetzak, George Heinrichs,Joe Reid, Joe Smith

1991 Weldon Parker,Charles E. Hankins, FredKalm, Bob Rutter Sr., BobRutter, Rocky Wyckoff, BobLeek, Eppie Falkingburg, EdHeinrichs, Bert Courtney,Fred Bahr

1992 Melvin Parker, JoeSprague, Paul Steinhauer,Capt. Percy Giddes, EmilParker, Somers Headley,Capt. Chet Holman, Tom Nickerson, Capt. OwenRidgeway, Joe Inman, DickMcKandless, Capt. Ken Wilson Sr., Milton Cranmer,Capt. Steve “Sparky” Dickerson, Otto Froriep Sr.,

Nathaniel Boone Driscoll,Allen Tonneson

1993 Capt. Lew Broome,Peter Oliver Bahr, Bert Cranmer, Bill Cranmer, Capt.Dick Clineman, Paul Lafferty,Lachlan Beaton, Capt. CalvinWilson, Martin Bob Chadwick, Elliott Giles, Ernie Cranmer,Perry Inman, Charlie Richards

1994 Capt. Dellwin Sooy,Robert D. Conti, Lorna Chadwick Shinn, Dave“Cricket” Winton, WinstonNewman, Carolyn Chadwick,Capt. Ken Allen, Ed Brown,Enoch Jablonski, Walt Ludlow, Cliff Lashley, Capt.Herb Schoenberg

1995 Phil Hart, GurneyHart, Walter “Shorty” Hart,Paul D. “Pete” McLain, CliffFrazee, Gladys Eayre, Herschel Abbott, Eldora Abbott, Leah “Sis” HornerMarr, Russell Bowen, JohnCavileer

1996 Horace Cavileer, MiltHeinzer, Major Leek, Don

Maxwell, Jack Parsons,Mason Price, Maurice“Merce” Ridgeway, Edward J.Smith, Arthur “Oppie” Speck,Stella S. Wegst1997 Reeves O. “Slim”Hornby, Norman Dupont, JoeForsyth, Capt. Paul Bonnell,Herlan “Blue”Cornelius, Florence Cavileer, MarionSpeck, Stanley Conklin, JohnMarvin Inman1998 Bill de Freitas III,Harry de Freitas, Alston Allen,William Jenks, Charles Paul,Kenneth Holman1999 Bob Gaskill, GusHeinrichs, Harry Shourds,Edna Marshall, Herb Bell,Jack Scheimreif, HarryRogers2000 Ken Maxwell, Edward Ahearn, Janice Sherwood, John Lafferty,Sam Leifried, Elwood Harvey

2001 Steven Potter, BennyAllen, Enoch Pharo, John

Chadwick, Dave Paul, Sr.,Bob Wilson 2002 Bub Johnson, GaryGiberson, Ross Wilson, JimHutchinson2003 Ronald M. Bozarth,Nelson Holloway, RichardCrema, Richard Beckley2004 Ray Nyman, Edwin P.Thompson2005 Capt. John Larson,Henry Althouse, WilliamShoemaker, William Godfrey2006 Richard W. Matthews,John “Jack” Vanaman2007 Alvin Shourds,John Scott Rutherford2008 Capt. Bob Fricke2009 Jim Leek, MalcolmRobinson, Captain Phil Anderson2010 John R. Holloway,George Mathis Sr., CarlTarnow

2011 Albert Gabriel, Capt. Michael “Mickey” King,Halvor “Sonny” Skie, Capt.George Svelling2012 Anthony A. Schairer,Capt. John “Jack Jr.” Kennell

2013 John M. Chadwick,Don Cramer, George Mikuletzky, Dale Parsons,Wanda Parsons

2014 Ron “Poss” Hammell, Ray Huber Jr.,John Joseph Maxwell

2015 Fred Lesser, GeorgeMathis, Jr., Newt Sterling, Joe “Spike” Mott

2016 Captain Joel E. Mick,Steve C. Frazee

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THE VIEW FROm GREAT BAY BOULEVARD: A PATH FROm THE PAST TO THE FUTUREKenneth W. Able, Rutgers University Marine Field Station

Much of what we know about Great Bay Boulevardhas been chronicled in the trail guide preparedby Terry O’Leary and the Tuckerton Seaport butwe continue to broaden our understanding of themeadows and the intervening waterways. GreatBay Boulevard, or Seven Bridges Road to many,has seen numerous changes in the past and islikely to see further changes in the future. Thisis why I am revisiting aspects of this path toallow us to think about the future. This is partic-ularly relevant to its current status as the meansof access to the Sheepshead Meadows peninsula.

The road approximates a dividing line through the NJDEP Great Bay Wildlife Management Area, and, as such, provides access to a relativelyundisturbed piece of nature that is used frequently and in all seasons by hunters, fishermen, bird watchers, artists, and scientists.

The PastIn the distant past, the marshes on the peninsula were formed thousands of years ago after the glaciers receded, when the climates were warming.During this time, the marshes collected large amounts of sediments that allowed them to keep ahead of sea level rise. During this period, thelocal Lenni Lenape used the area along the road to forage and then dump the shells of mostly hard clams, but also oysters, whelks, and bayscallops. This area, now known as the Tuckerton Mound, is actually much larger than evident because the marshes have grown over it duringthe period of sea level rise. Advanced dating techniques suggest it is over 1500 years old.More recently in 1928, the State of New Jersey proposed a road connecting Tuckerton nearLittle Egg Inlet to the nearby barrier islands with an “Ocean Highway” through the SheepsheadMeadows. This connection was known as the “Tuckerton Cutoff” and is depicted in a 1932painting by Morris Shriver that lives in the Tuckerton Historical Society (Fig. 1). The paintingindicates the planned, but never completed, road from Tuckerton, down Great Bay Boulevardto a traffic circle where the road would split to go to Long Beach Island to the north andBrigantine and Atlantic City to the south. Evidence for implementation of this plan occurs in a1930 aerial photograph that shows the construction activity for the road (Fig. 2). The whitesignature along the road is likely the result of sediments trucked in to build the road. This ismost obvious at the sites where elevated bridges were being constructed over the five majorthorofares or creeks through the peninsula. This road and accompanying bridges have a higher elevation than the rest of the marsh. At about the same time that the road was being constructed the meadows were extensivelyditched, at least closest to Tuckerton, for mosquito control as part of the Works ProgressAdministration, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects during the Depression. In the 1950s,a portion of the marshes were dredged and filled to provide lagoon developments (Fig. 3) forMystic and Osborne Islands and along parts of Tuckerton Creek. Additional details of thehistory of the road are captured in my history of RUMFS, Station 119 (Able 2015 Down theShore Publishing).

The PresentGreat Bay Boulevard provides, on a daily basis, access to a natural part of the Jersey shore. While there are lots of resident animals that canbe observed from the road, especially at night, such as fox, raccoons, mink, and occasionally river otters, there are a host of migrants thatappear in certain seasons. The easily seen ones include the summer visiting birds such as a variety of gulls, herons, and egrets, as well asosprey and, more frequently in recent years, eagles. The road, due to its higher elevation, also provides an appropriate nesting place forfemale diamondback terrapins to lay their eggs, a common occurrence in early summer. In fact, on one day I counted 53 of them on the roadduring my commute into RUMFS. Evidence, of their egg-laying, if one looks carefully, the one to one and a half inch hatchlings can be seenfirst in the fall and again in spring and early summer as they are crossing the road. Unfortunately, the road can also be a source of mortalitywhen the increasing traffic on the road causes the death of these egg-laying females and the hatchlings. The visitors that most people don’t know about are the fish that swim under the bridges. The local ones are, for example, mummichogs (minnows),

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Past to the Future from previous pageblack sea bass, bluefish, and weakfish. But we also get visitors, especiallylarvae and juveniles of fishes that were spawned far away including the eastcoast of Florida (gray snapper, ladyfish), North Carolina (speckled wormeel, butterflyfish, gag grouper, spot) and Massachusetts (pollack, cod). Weknow about these because we have been sampling them with small mesh(1/25th of an inch) nets off the bridge over Little Sheepshead Creek, once aweek on night flood tides, for the past 28 + years. The greatest travelers arethe young stages of American and Conger eels that come all the way fromthe Sargasso Sea, east of the Bahamas.Where beaches occur along the road, such as at the end of the road at ShootingThorofare, under Little Sheepshead Creek Bridge, and on the beach nearthe bridge over Little Thorofare, horseshoe crabs deposit their eggs in theearly summer. At the same time many fishes such as striped killifish andmummichogs, as well as laughing gulls, gather to feed on their eggs. In the last couple of decades there have been many changes along GreatBay Boulevard, but by and large, the meadows have not changed, even afterSuperstorm Sandy. As a result, they continue to produce plants (largely salt-marsh cordgrass), in vast quantities that are the basis for the estuarine foodchain. In addition, these marshes and associated pools, creeks, and embaymentsprovide the habitats for fishes, shrimp, and crabs that reproduce and growin the system and are critical to many of the local fisheries.The creeks that wind through the peninsula, especially those that go underthe five bridges, are as diverse as the marsh surface is uniform (Fig. 3). Allof them have deep holes, ranging from 13 feet in Jimmy’s Creek to 25 feetin Little Thorofare, but their average depths are much shallower from 2.5

feet in Big Sheepshead Creek to 4 feet in Jimmy’s Creek and Big Thorofare. Both Little and Big Sheepshead creeks flood from Little Egg Harbor into Great Bay. The remaining creeks (Jimmy’s Creek, Little and BigThorofare) typically flood in the opposite direction. When we compared the kinds of baby fish caught in small mesh plankton nets betweenLittle Sheepshead, Jimmy’s Creek, and Little Thorofare they were approximately the same suggesting the larvae are sloshing and swimmingback and forth with the tides from Little Egg Inlet and between Little Egg Harbor and Great Bay. The deep column of water and fast flowsin Little Sheapshead Creek may be responsible for the large (2-3 feet in height) yellow sponges that occasionally get caught in our nets fishedalong the bottom. There are changes occurring. There is increasing frequency of flooding of theroad and the adjacent marshes. We have been tracking this regularly since2002 when a U.S. Geological Survey tide gauge was installed in the RUMFSboat basin. This so-called “nuisance flooding” has become so frequent thatit influences when we can get into and leave RUMFS, sometimes on a dailybasis. The most frequently flooded portions of the road are evident from theroadside vegetation. Those areas most frequently flooded have salt marshcordgrass growing right to the edge of the road and no Phragmites (whichdoes not like to be frequently covered with full strength seawater as occurson new and full moon tides and during some storms). Another prominentchange is the loss of marsh at the end of the peninsula at Shooting Thorofare.This is occurring at the rate of about one foot per year over the last 30 years.The former, now cut-off, telephone poles in the water at the end of the roadare evidence of this.Other changes along Great Bay Boulevard have occurred to reduce mosquitobreeding. In recent years, an alteration known as Open Marsh Water Management (OMWM) has been used to spread marsh peat with a rotaryditcher (Fig. 4) to fill in lower areas where mosquitos lay eggs while creatingpools that will retain fishes, such as mummichogs and their relatives, to eat the mosquito larvae that live in the water. This type of alterationis evident from a helicopter above Great Bay Boulevard (Fig. 5), closest to Tuckerton, where OMWM areas with created ponds and connectingditches provide mosquito-eating fish habitat. Marsh pools of increasing size, as in the upper portion of the photo, are evident, due to highersea levels in recent decades.The combination of relatively unaltered marshes and waterways and the human “experiments” with marshes such as lagoon developmentand mosquito control make the Sheepshead Meadows along Great Bay Boulevard an exceptional place for research and teaching. As a resultthe number of research publications based on these meadows continue to grow (over 120 at last count) with a number of ongoing and proposed

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Past to the Future from previous pageprojects that will further our understanding of how thisecosystem functions and how to make it more resilient tosea level rise and flooding. These same advantages provide an exceptional baseline for education of studentsand teachers. Other users are naturalists and scientistsincluding those located on Great Bay Boulevard such asRUMFS, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, and others who are working there suchas NJDEP, Stockton University, Barnegat Bay Partnership,Georgetown University, and University of Denver, all inan effort to understand these unique marshes.

The FutureThe increased flooding of Great Bay Boulevard maythreaten many of the activities of a variety of users or atleast control their timing. This is obvious in the reducednumber of marinas since Superstorm Sandy. The effectsof sea level rise are also increasingly evident therebecause of major storms such as Sandy, winter nor’easters,

or simply regular moon tides. Future predictions suggest that given 1 foot of sea level rise almost the entire peninsula, including Great BayBoulevard, will be under water on average high water conditions. The limited exceptions will be the bridge approaches and bridges, somedredge disposal sites, the fish factory site and a fringe of slightly higher dunes in the vicinity of the Big and Little Sheepshead creek mouthsnear Little Egg Inlet. Thus a progression from “nuisance flooding” to “obnoxious flooding” is likely.

Unfortunately there are many uncertainties about the timeline for this flooding that hamper planning for a response. Fortunately, however,the ongoing research by the institutions mentioned above will provide some insight into the effects. In addition, these places may help toevaluate how the beneficial use of clean dredged sediments can decrease the effects of flooding and make the marshes more resilient to sealevel rise. Thus, Great Bay Boulevard and the Sheepshead Meadows could become a center for sea level research and teaching and help usto understand the effects and how to deal with the future.

AcknowledgmentsSeveral institutions and individuals contributed background materials including the Tuckerton Seaport and TuckertonHistorical Society. RUMFS personnel helped prepare the text and maps.Figures1. Painting from 1932 of proposed Ocean Highway from Tuckerton to Long Beach Island and Atlantic City including the

Tuckerton Cutoff, now known as Great Bay Boulevard.2. Aerial image of Great Bay Boulevard under construction during 1930s.3. Map of Great Bay Boulevard in the Sheepshead Meadows with location of former fish factory, marinas, and major thorofares.4. Rotary ditcher modifying the marsh along Great Bay Boulevard for mosquito control.5. Helicopter image of altered (lower, open marsh water management for mosquito) and unaltered (upper, extensive ponding

on marsh surface due to sea level rise) marsh along Great Bay Boulevard.ReferencesAble, K.W. 2015. Station 119: From Lifesaving to Marine Research. Down The Shore Publishing. West Creek, NJ.Able, K.W. 2016/17. Manufacturing from Menhaden: A History in the Mullica Valley. Vol. 1, No.2:75-82.Hoden, R. and K.W. Able. 2003. Habitat use and road mortality of Diamondback Terrapin (Malyclemys terrapin) in the Jacques CousteauNational Estuarine Research Reserve at Mullica River – Great Bay in southern New Jersey. Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, JCNERRContribution No. 100-24.Hoden, R. 1997. The seasonal abundance of migratory shorebirds, gulls, and geese on an intertidal mud flat in southern New Jersey: Long term field observations. Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Tech. Rept. 97-13.Lathrop, R.G., M.B. Cole and R.D. Showalter. 2000. Quantifying the habitat structure and spatial pattern of New Jersey (U.S.A.) Salt marshes under different management regimes. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 8: 163-172.O’Leary, T. 2000. Tuckerton Seaport’s Ecotour Travel Guide to Great Bay Boulevard. Tuckerton Seaport.Stanzeski, A. J. 2001. The Tuckerton Shell Mound. Bulletin of the A.S.N.J. No. 56: 47-50.

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A special thanks to the following vendors whodonated materials for the show:

Ed McCay of McCay Wood Products, Nesco, NJ(609) 204-7680

For donating the wood for the head whittling blanks.Ray Gormley of

My Three Sons Seafood & Produce,Parkertown, NJ (609) 296-2589For stage and grounds decorations.

Thanks for All Your Help!The Ocean County Department of Parks & Recreation and the Barnegat Bay

Decoy & Bayman’s Museum would like to express our deep appreciation for all groups,businesses and individuals whose effort and support make this show possible.

Show Program CommitteeGerman Georgieff, Brooke Salvanto,

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