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More than pines in the Pinelands

Want to know more about the rich plant life across the Pinelands? The New Jersey Conservation Foundation - in partnership with the Pinelands Preservation Alliance - will offer advanced and basic courses.

Want to know more about the rich plant life across the Pinelands?

The New Jersey Conservation Foundation - in partnership with the Pinelands Preservation Alliance - will offer advanced and basic courses.

Advanced studies - geared toward professionals and advanced amateur botanists - will begin Tuesday under the guidance of Russell Juelg, land steward and Pine Barrens educator for the foundation.

The course includes one monthly field study session at the 9,700-acre Franklin Parker Preserve in Chatsworth, and one monthly classroom workshop at alliance headquarters at 17 Pemberton Rd., Southampton.

The workshops will be from 7 to 9 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month through November.

Field studies will be held on weekends at the Franklin Parker Preserve in the heart of the Pine Barrens.

Students will choose their own plot and create a comprehensive, specimen-based list of every vascular plant species present on the site.

The course fee is $150 and must be paid in advance. Those wishing to register online can go to https://donate.njconservation.org/2015-plants-course-advanced. For more information, contact Juelg at Russell@njconservation.org.

Registration information for the basic course, which teaches the fundamentals of identifying Pine Barrens plants, will be available later in the spring. The basic course will start May 28.

The New Jersey Conservation Foundation is a nonprofit that preserves land and natural resources throughout the state.

Since 1960, it has protected 125,000 acres of open space from the Highlands to the Pine Barrens and the Delaware Bay. - Edward Colimore