Big Progress At Island Beach State Park; Christmas Tree Project Is Working
Park manager: additional park areas to open within the next month
Island Beach State Park manager Ray Bukowski told Patch the southern half of the park would most likely begin to open to the public within the next month.
Bukowski said the area would probably be opened in three stages, from north to south, with the final stage being the end of the park's road to Barnegat Inlet. Currently, members of the public are allowed as far in as the park's administration building, and parking is available at OBA 1. Beach buggy owners can also access that portion of the park, and 2012 beach buggy permits are still being honored.
Bukowski said park officials are concerned with the number of people feeding wild foxes that live in the park.
If people continue to feed the animals, they will lose their natural fear of cars and humans and be subject to getting hurt. They may also suffer from health issues related to consuming food they are not meant to eat. Additionally, said Bukowski, motor vehicle accidents have occurred when people stop their vehicles to get out and approach the animals.
Park officials encourage all visitors to leave the foxes alone, and more strict enforcement of rules against stopping vehicles or feeding foxes may come.
Halpha2
8:17 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Dont feed the foxes as they may become dependant on free food. However, give out ebt cards and govt handouts and lazy leeches HAVE become dependant on that. Impeach obama!!!!!
type writer
9:56 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Foxes can't vote.....yet, at least here in New Jersey. Not legally anyway, but in Chicago they are allowed to vote as many times as they want.
Smot Revir
10:13 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
@ Halpha2...why are you sooooo angry, did your inflatable date spring a leak ?
Melissa Edmons
10:30 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I'm sorry I was raised on welfare. In New Jersey there are limitations. One cannot be on welfare forever, there is a time limit. Food stamps are that, tickets that can only purchase FOOD. Not alcohol.
WIC gives medical care and food to children under 5, the tickets to get food with that program specifically state what food and amount can be purchased.
I grew up in a neighborhood with many people on welfare. It's not as taken advantage of as middle class, and upper middle class people believe.
Martin
10:45 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Erroneous flood zone maps, overkill house-raising mandates and exorbitant annual insurance costs... FEMA wants NJ to bail it out of its Katrina debt!
Join our fight. Congress must correct the 2012 Biggert-Waters Act that gave FEMA the power to drown homeowners and NJ's entire economy. Info is at StopFemaNow.com and Facebook.com/StopFemaNow.
Save our Shore Communities!
George
10:48 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Are they raising the governor's summer mansion on IBSP? It needs pilings to go up 13 feet or more. Otherwise, annual insurance premiums will be $30,000+, just like the little people's costs!
suz
8:26 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Good one...sad but oh so true.
angel
6:21 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Both mansions. One on the ocean and the second one on the bay. Both in V zone.
Nicole
9:21 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
omg! Gimme a break. Everytime i read the comments on this page, no matter what the subject, it turns into a political debate. I really want to just hear about IBSP. I love it there. I'm there all summer and have made it my birthday destination for the last 25 years. Me and my twin. Its our place! Please don't ruin the news with Stupid Obama shit. Its irrelevant... Not trying to be a bitch, but it gets old ya know...
wookfish
9:58 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Leave the page then dummy....must be a democrap
Smot Revir
10:14 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
@wookfish...another anal vent heard from !
Mister Matt
2:15 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
So true Nicole. Why the Obama garbage on an article and discussion about the restoration of Island Beach State Park? Others need to peddle the spew someplace else. So many are interested in the progress of IBSP as we enjoy dipping our toes in the sand and sea more than the bowels of politics. Looking forward to the red foxes and ospreys again this Spring.
impeach1
9:32 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Wonder when they will demolish the marina buildings destroyed by Sandy? They have to be dangerous.
Nicole
9:35 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
thank u! Finally someone actually interested in IBSP. I've been wondering about all of the buildings. What will be open/available for the summer? 2 more months till its warm. I can't wait!
Daniel Nee
11:27 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The length of the park appears that it will be open in time for the summer season. They were without water in some of the southern parts, as the wells were inoperable, however they've fixed most of those buildings and are just waiting on water testing which is required by law.
They're also close to getting their front gate offices back up and running properly, and a temporary trailer will be gone soon.
Lov2swim
12:33 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Well he did close the WH and is threating to close the Parks, which IBSP is...I hope he doesn't but I'm not holding m y breath.
Johnjcpa
4:09 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
IBSP is a state park.
Sarah
9:44 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I'm so happy that they are making progress. This is my favorite beach on the Jersey Shore.
butch cassidy
3:55 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
good news love that park...hope it will be open with clean safe beaches and an ocean without a bumper car
John Eric Mangino
9:50 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Great news and great that you could find reusable Lumber ..
leslie r
9:53 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Me either. I dont know what beach to go to. Love ibsp but what is in sand/water since Sandy? Is it safe? I only went to ibsp and Ortley. Ortley a mess..so sad.
Rick
9:16 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
I'm sure the state will make sure that the beaches and water are clean and safe before they open them back up.
Tom Woodward
9:55 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Beaches are great but poor people who jones are ruined. Bankrupt costs to raise houses. Entire first floors of homes need to be replaced. It willbe depressing when u see the devastation. All rose colored glasses except for the residents.
Tom Woodward
9:57 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Sorry typo....poor people who homes are ruined. Insurance robbery on claims.
type writer
9:58 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Don't feed the foxes on Island Beach. Let them eat all the piping plover eggs and chicks.
Andy Pat
10:00 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
impeach the man who was just overwhelmingly re-elected? some people just are not cut out for democracies with free elections. oh yeah and BTW-that was one lame analogy!
Dennis DeMey
10:31 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Something very positive, mostly done by volunteers efforts , a needed bit of Restore the Shore to enjoy,,,,so stick the negative comments and politics where the sun don't shine !
The real people will have a small place to enjoy and build on.Complaining,negative folks will not supress the rest of us !
Smot Revir
10:45 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Ya know what I find so amazingly hipocritical ? It's all you fools that are screaming welfare,foodstamps,gov't handouts,are the first in line to file a FEMA Form to get some money from Uncle Sam ! You really think that getting money from FEMA is any different thern some poor working person getting gov't help ? SHAME ON YOU!
wookfish
10:53 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Hipo crit....go to private school did you?..and try a little harder..anal vent..you asshole
George
11:09 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
FEMA's money is our money, paid over decades for flood insurance that now isn't paying us back. Facebook.com/StopFemaNow
John Eric Mangino
11:08 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Its just amazes me the effort and time put into negative comments on a story that not only pure and cost no one a dime but will go save homes on the mainland yet patch trolls try and derail every thread here . Spread political rederick or plain out right attack people . They took a reusable resource cost no one a dime and some how inappropriate comments still get posted . I know one thing I was editer I would block you habitual trolls for good ....
Dennis DeMey
11:15 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Agree, they should join thee Beach Buggy Assoc and get off their duff and do something positive. They,NJBBA, put out hundreds(more) of trees to save the dunes, miles of fences, all at thier own cost of fuel, vehicle and time and cleaned up the flotsom just so we could all have a place to enjoy. Pick a different forum to vent, there are plenty for the legitimate complaints. We all know thousands of folks who are still suffering and it;s wrong, but don't beat up on the good stuff.
Meat Loaf
11:34 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Why are they only using Holiday trees? Why no Menoras or Kwanzaa bushes? Seperation of church and state was put in our constitution for a reason. The government should not be in the business of favoring one religous symbol over another when building sand dunes on public property.
Kim E
12:12 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Elvis, you have really left the building.
Jackthebear
2:40 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Elvis that is hilarious. Your sarcasm was not lost on me. I needed a good laugh. Thanks.
Rick
12:30 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Really Elvis? Have you ever read the NJ Constitution? The preamble reads;
A Constitution agreed upon by the delegates of the people of New Jersey, in Convention, begun at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick, on the twelfth day of June, and continued to the tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.
We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
You can read the rest at
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/lawsconstitution/constitution.asp
Spooner
1:24 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Elvis- if your referring to the US Constitution, you will not find the term:" separation of church and state" The term was coined afterward in an 1802 letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association, and under the tenth amendment: powers not delegated to the US, are reserved to the States. Now you could make a case against the NJ Constitution has written above. So when are you going to initiate a lawsuit in Federal Court against the State of New Jersey for using [Christmas] trees? By the way: the state will claim that Christmas is not a religious day, but a pagan holiday from Roman times. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them.
Rick
9:34 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Hey Elvis, Did you know that a Menorah is a candelabrum usually made of metal and wouldn't be very good for holding down sand?
Also there is no Kwanzaa bush. What you might be thinking of is a Chanukah bush, which is a libel Jewish version of a Christmas tree, minus the star or angel on top and also minus any Christian oriented ornaments.
Samantha
8:00 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
What ?
Dennis DeMey
11:41 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
No one said they weren't ! or didn't...another troublemaker or smart a## ?
Jason DeCarlo
11:51 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
NJBBA is spearheading the operations out there alongside with Ray and the crew. Proud to be a member of the organization and sit on the Board of Directors! There isn't a finer group of people in all of the Jersey Shore. Get involved, stay involved.
Dennis DeMey
12:12 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Me too Jason ! There are always talkers, doers and then the complainers who do nothing.
Jason DeCarlo
11:51 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Nice article as well, Daniel!
donna
2:39 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
I have a very large evergreen tree in my front yard...I want to cut it down and donate to the beach of anyone choice. Any one have any ideas how to proceed. I live in
Silverton. The Tree is too large now for the front of my home.
Rick
12:33 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
They have or had a drop off point at Cattus Island Park. Check and see if they are still taking them there.
Mister Matt
2:47 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
A heartfelt thank you to all involved in the restoration of IBSP.
Lynn
3:27 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
excuse me for saying this yet i had a thought... who wants to walk on sandy beaches where there are going to be thousands of dried up pinchy pine needles poking at and getting stuck in bare feet like splinters?? ouch! what genius thought up that idea of putting pine needle Christmas trees in hot, dry sand on which people walk barefoot?? :-/
butch cassidy
3:59 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
ok lynn stop it...
John Eric Mangino
3:56 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
One you shouldn't be walking in the dunes second by the time the season rolls around they will be a thing of the past being fully engulfed in sand . And third I would worry more about storm debris before a pine needle . Key west is lined with pine trees ive never had a pine needle accident there . @stopfemanow
JerseyGirl
9:55 am on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Will IBSP be open to the horses again next October? I love bringing my horse their every year!!