We are a group of volunteers from towns surrounding the Whale Pond Brook watershed who are dedicated to the restoration of this resource through neighborhood projects and education.

Thank you to all of our partners for helping care for the watershed!

Our partners:

Tinton Falls, Ocean Township, Eatontown, West Long Branch, Long Branch

Jersey Shore Group of the Sierra Club

NJ Friends of Clearwater

Urban Coast Institute

Monmouth County Clean Communities

Coastal Watersheds Partnership

Also, thanks to :

John Tiedemann, Assistant Dean, Biology Department, Monmouth University, for writing the Whale Pond Brook Watershed Biological Assessment and coming to speak to the Jersey Shore Group of the Sierra Club conservation meeting in 2010. He turned us on!

All the members of the Monmouth County Environmental Partnership for fostering an environment that allows collaborative ideas to grow and become a reality.

Urban Coast Institute Director, Tony MacDonald for making our working relationship so productive. Jim Nickels, UCI marine biologist has been invaluable as our boatsman and advisor on Ross Island, helping us transport people and brush back and forth and helping us form the Ross Island Club. Jim is also the UCI project lead on the watershed.