Like a huge one. It took me three weeks (including final edits). It was on New Jersey (where I used to live) but I thought you would like to read it anyway. Speaking of New Jersey, we have found out that we are moving to New Jersey in about 4-5 months. :"-(
New Jersey
By Noelle
New Jersey is such a wonderful and exciting place to live. Why? The refreshing area is a relaxing place to recharge. The supplies used are greener, due to the fact they are local. All animals are cared for and given places to live in the dozens of state parks in New Jersey. If you are just visiting, New Jersey provides an amazing array of parks, museums, and other attractions. New Jersey is so action-packed and thrilling you just want to move there right away.
The New Jersey peninsula is green and full of gardens. It is a wonderful place to refresh. Over 4,000 lakes, rivers, streams, and rills criss-cross all over New Jersey. Large salt water marshes are everywhere. They attract beautiful inland water birds such as the egret. New Jersey’s longest river, the Raritan, is 75 miles in length, and twists across every part of New Jersey. The Delaware River Gap, a large cut in the New Jersey highlands, is a delightful site to visit. New Jersey is a inspiring place to live.
The land and sea in New Jersey provide several natural resources. Oil and coal is not wasted shipping wood and other supplies to New Jersey. The red oak, or 'Quercus Rubra' is the state tree, and provides much of the wood in New Jersey. The white oak (Quercus Alba) can grow to be very old, and are constantly getting to be bigger, and so are also used for wood. The oldest on record is 600 years old and grows at Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The Lenape Native Americans, who lived in New Jersey for thousands of years before the English ever set foot on it, used the area to hunt for game, fish, and gather nuts, berries, and clams. Fishing in New Jersey adds $100 yearly to the state economy. Franklin mine, which operated between the mid 1800s and 1954 is thought to be one of the richest zinc mines in the world. Today the USA ‘copper’ penny is really 97.5 zinc, and is covered with a layer of copper. Zinc is also used to make zinc oxide, which strengthens rubber tires, and used as a component in many lotions. Over half of the fresh water that people drink in New Jersey is local water. Most resources in New Jersey are local and therefore greener too!
Birds, land creatures, and sea animals alike are given places to live and are taken care of medically. Thousands of hawks and other birds migrate through New Jersey twice a year. Bird watchers set up ‘bird hotels’ where these migrators can rest, eat, and bathe before they continue on. On the New Jersey shore, horseshoe crabs scuttle around. These ray-like creatures have been nicknamed ‘living fossils’, because scientists have found fossils of these animals that aren’t that much different from millions of years ago. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center takes care of water animals that roam New Jersey’s seas. Several state parks, including Kittatinny Valley State Park, High Point State Park and Island Beach dot New Jersey with fantastic examples of nature. New Jersey takes excellent care of its creatures.
Tourists and New Jerseyans alike can tour New Jersey in an array of parks, theaters, and museums. At the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, which is in New Jersey, there is an exhibit on a ancient visitor. ‘Haddy’, as the scientists nicknamed her, is a 25 foot long Hadrosaurus foulkii, a.k.a Hadrosaurus, and has an entire exhibit to herself, even today. She was discovered in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Want a taste of Africa without leaving beloved New Jersey? Visit the Six Flags Wild Safari, which is one of the biggest safari drive-throughs in America. Live animals roam about while you can drive past them. At “The Shore” children can play in and out of the water. Sandy Hook lighthouse has been operating since 1764. It is the oldest continually operating lighthouse in the USA. Cape May hosted early “Summer White Houses” for Presidents Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester Authur, and Benjamin Harrison. If you are interested in New Jersey history, you should visit Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which has been preserved since the Revolution war. At ‘Plays-in-a-Park’, your children can watch plays outdoors in the summer, and indoors in the winter. New Jersey has over 50 resort areas, not including dozens more state parks. New Jersey is the place to go for action.
New Jersey is so spectacular in its never-ending list of attractions, it makes you want to move to it right away. It is restoring in its natural embrace. Its local supplies do not waste coal and oil in shipping. Animals find homes and care in New Jersey. New Jersey will never leave you bored with its dozens of amusements and parks. New Jersey is such a thrilling place to live.
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1 comment:
Gee, I wonder if New Jersey is a refreshing place to live?!
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