Every year, Ramapo College and the Meadowlands Commission sponsor a survival camp for kids.
This was the big canoe race. All survived.
More on the camp here: Download students_survive_meadowlands_experience.pdf.
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WHAT”S THAT: DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst
As you enter the Marsh Discovery Trail at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, you’ll see a tree with large leaves and strange green pods. And you may well wonder what it is.
"This is a Paulownia tomentosa: princesstree or Royal empress tree," says NJMC horticulturist Ian McDermott. "This tree has purple sweet smelling flowers in late May and June. Sticky seed pods."
LYNDHURST: Barn swallows
The tree swallows in the Meadowlands have been getting more publicity, but the barn swallows are making their presence known as well in DeKorte Park.
Walk in the parking lot and they’ll be whizzing past. Walk on the Marsh Discovery Trail or on the elevated boardwalk near the Environment Center, and they are zipping past everywhere.
In fact, they zip so fast they are next to impossible to photograph in flight.
Click "Continue Reading" below for more on barn swallows and a photo of an empty nest.
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CONSERVATION: Tree swallow study
Tree swallows are thriving in the Meadowlands once again, thanks to an innovative nesting box program.
And the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission now has the data to prove it.
With a huge boost from local scout troops, families and other groups, the Meadowlands Commission has erected some 250 nesting boxes in marshes throughout the 30.4-square-mile district.
This year, with the help of 
GPS devices, the Meadowlands Commission naturalists Mike Newhouse and Gabrielle Bennett-Meany are keeping track of tree-swallow activity in all of the nesting boxes.
They found that more than 60 percent were occupied by nesting pairs, with 610 eggs laid and more than 480 nestlings successfully fledged as of July 15.
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