Crossword Clues "E"
Before & After
NJCF Nitty Gritty
Acronyms
New Jersey Potpourri
100

This agreement between a landowner and organization (like NJCF) permanently limits certain uses of a property to protect conservation values.  

What is an easement?

100

An NJCF land steward meets up with the mayor of Upper Pittsgrove Twp.

Who is "Steve Jack Cimprich"?

100

New vendors have to submit one if they want their check.

What is a w9?

100

FERC

What is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission?

100

This city served as the inspiration for the various properties that made up the original Monopoly board.

What is Atlantic City?

200

This flycatcher, which lacks an eye ring and wing bars, pumps its tail up and down when perching.

What is an Eastern phoebe?

200

This bright red backyard bird might share a garden with this native flower that attracts hummingbirds.

What is "Northern cardinal flower"?

200

NJCF's planned giving program.

What is The Red Oak Society?

200

FoHVOS

What is Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space?

200

This NJ county had the lowest population according to the 2020 census.

What is Salem County?

300

This 170-acre preserve lies at the very edge of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, in the transition area between two major geological areas, the inner and outer coastal plains.

What is the Evert Trail Preserve?

300

This small butterfly with tiny, thin tails should not be swimming in these bodies of water - formerly quarries - in the Pine Barrens.

What is an "Eastern tailed blue hole"?

300
This is how NJCF was listed in our original articles of incorporation.

What is the New Jersey Conversation Foundation?

300

NJFFS

What is New Jersey Forest Fire Service?

300

This rock band had a hit song, "Bad Medicine", from their 1988 album "New Jersey". 

Who is Bon Jovi?

400

Enacted in 2020, this aims to protect overburdened communities from the disproportionate negative impacts of pollution.  

What is the Environmental Justice Law?

400

An Eastern towhee might shout this at a wintergreen plant.

What is "Drink Your Tea Berry"?

400

The subtitle of the Nature For All report.

What is "A 2050 Vision for New Jersey"?

400

GCLWCF

What is Greater Culver Lake Watershed Conservation Foundation?

400

These helpful pups were declared New Jersey's state dog in 2020, honoring the state's history of training them.  

What are Seeing Eye dogs?

500

Native to New Jersey, this elegant wildflower is admired for its nodding, latern-like flowers. It thrives in partial shade, often along woodland edges, rocky slopes, or cliffs.

What is Eastern Columbine?

500

This tree's fruit, which ripens in the fall after a frost, might land on these blue-violet, snapdragon-like flowers that thrive in wet conditions.

What is a "persim-monkey flower"?

500

The number of current NJCF employees, not including interns.

What is 34?

500

MMSC

What is the Marine Mammal Stranding Center?

500

This town, founded in 1660 in what was then known as New Netherlands, was the first permanent European settlement in New Jersey.
 

What is Bergen?

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