Month: February 2018

January 24, 2018 (courtesy of Bayonne Briefs) Rescuers at NJ Animal Control and Rescue save a snowy owl stuck in an industrial chimney at a power plant in Bayonne on Jan. 8. Likely trying to escape the bitter cold, the owl became trapped when workers at the plant spotted it and contacted animal control. The bird was diagnosed as healthy, …

By Elena Knopp October 23, 2017 It’s 8 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in downtown Newark, and Michael Rodgers, a seasonal field biologist and survey technician for the City of Newark, has already been at work for close to two hours. He carries a large bag and a knapsack on his back as he prepares for the next leg of …