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MONUMENT OAK TREE: Happy August! Here are new photos of the Monument Tree at Sawmill Park in Buena Vista Township in the New Jersey Pinelands. 🌳 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #oaks #trees #tree #NJ

HOW SWEET IT IS: Native sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia) is permeating the Pinelands air with its sweet fragrance right now. This summer-flowering superstar boasts showy, white flowers that attract butterflies, bees, hummingbirds and humans alike. 🌼 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

NATIVE, RARE STUNNER: Happy Thursday! Rare, native red #milkweed (Asclepias rubra) is blooming in the New Jersey Pinelands. Red milkweed grows 1-3 feet tall in acidic, moist soils, and it boasts pink to dull red to light purple #flowers that appear in late June and July. 🌸 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC

Happy Wildflower Wednesday! Here’s a new view of a cabbage white butterfly sipping nectar from a native, rare rose-colored coreopsis (Coreopsis rosea) flower in the New Jersey Pinelands. 🌸 🦋 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #butterflies #flowers #plants #insects

Happy Turtle Tuesday! The New Jersey Pinelands Commission will host a free presentation on Eastern Box Turtles at 2 p.m. on Thursday, August 6, 2026. 🐢 Tap here to register: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/wwje5fw

Happy National New Jersey Day from the country’s first National Reserve: the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands! 🌳 🌼 🐦 📷: Paul Leakan, Pinelands Commission Communications Officer #newjersey #pinelands #nature #wildlife

ROOTING FOR YOU: Happy Sunday! Here are new photos of a burly, native white #oak (Quercus alba) that shades the entrance of our headquarters in the Pinelands Area of Pemberton Township, NJ. 🌳 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #trees #nature #forests

WADING FOR YOU: Enjoy your weekend in the New Jersey Pinelands, wherever you explore. Looks like we’ll have abundant sunshine all weekend. Here are new views of the wonderful Wading River in the New Jersey Pinelands. Have you explored the Wading River? 🛶 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #nature

Turn up the volume while watching presenter Tyler Christensen talk about owl feathers during today’s presentation at the NJ Pinelands Commission’s headquarters. More than 40 people attended the presentation. 🦉

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More than 40 people learned about the owls of New Jersey during a presentation that the NJ Pinelands Commission hosted at its headquarters today.🦉 #owls #owl #birds

MILKWEED IT AND REAP: Happy #WildflowerWednesday! New Jersey native swamp #milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) is blooming in the Pinelands and across South Jersey, much to the delight of #butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. 🌸 🦋 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #insects #flowers

Happy National Moth Week! Here’s a small sampling of moths and moth caterpillars that Pinelands Commission staff members have photographed in the New Jersey Pinelands. #moths #moth #insects #wildlife

Happy Turtle Tuesday! Can you identify this turtle species, which I just saw in the New Jersey Pinelands? I photographed this beauty as it was traversing a driving/hiking trail, while making sure it crossed safely. It did! 🐢 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #wildlife #nature #reptiles

MINI PEARL: Orange you glad it’s Monday? Well, here are new, orange-y photos of pearl crescent butterflies sipping nectar from native orange milkwort flowers in the New Jersey Pinelands. 🧡🦋🧡 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #butterflies #insects #flowers

BOG BEAUTIES: Happy Sunday! Here are new photos of native, insectivorous threadleaf sundews (Drosera filiformis) blooming beside native, rose-colored tickseed (Coreopsis rosea) in our bog garden. 🌸 🌎 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #flowers #nativeplants

ON THE FRINGE: Here are new photos of native white fringed orchids (Platanthera blephariglottis) starting to bloom at the edge of a moist, sandy roadside in the New Jersey Pinelands. 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #orchids #orchid #flowers

Scenes from today’s Pinelands Summer Short Course, where more than 130 people learned about the natural, cultural, and historic resources of the Pinelands. The 10th annual event was held at Stockton University’s Kramer Hall in downtown Hammonton. 🐢 🐍

Happy World Snake Day in the NJ Pinelands! Snakes are a vital part of the Pinelands ecosystem, serving as predator and prey and helping to maintain biodiversity. They’re also beautiful! Here’s a gallery of native #snakes in the Pinelands National Reserve. 🐍 📷: NJPC staff #wildlife

SUPERB ‘EM: Happy #WildflowerWednesday! Native Turk’s-cap lilies (Lilium superbum) are blooming in the New Jersey Pinelands. This stunning wildflower grows in wet Pinelands meadows and open swamps. 🌼 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #flowers #nativeplants #plants

HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT: Here are new views of two native, male common snapping #turtles engaged in full combat in a pond in the New Jersey Pinelands. They were thrashing, wrestling, scratching, biting, and lunging at each other. 🐢 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #wildlife #nature