Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 90, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 11 May 1967 — Page 3

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At initiation ceremonies .for the newly established chapter of Psi lota Xi Sunday in Nappanee, Mrs. Francis Warner, national conductress, Mrs. Robert Endsley, national advisor, Mrs. Robert Geesley, national treasurer, Mrs. Edwin Scheerer, national president Mrs. W. C. Van Ness, national vice president, and Mrs. William Morris, national secretary, presided.

SPOTLIGHT ON SCIENCE Barbara Nadel

An army of nature lovers is marching this Sunday in an effort to save a million-year-old glacial pond containing rare plant and animal life. The growing technological needs of our complex modern society are being pitted against Sunfish Pond, the only glacial pond of its size and kind in New Jersey. The battle will be highlighted this Sunday the day set for the second annual pilgrimage to save this crystal clear pond. Sunfish Pond, a 44 acre pond atop the Kittatinny Ridge just north of the Delaware. Water Gap, was formed during the last part of the Ice Age by glaciers. Part of Worthington State Park, it is a link in the Applaebian Trail which stretches from Georgia to Maine. Since it was designated as a pump storage reservoir for the Tocks Island Dam system, it has become the center of a growing controversy. The little pond was probably carved out of the Kittatinny ridge by a giant glacier making its slow retreat northward as the climate warmed. The stones and rocks trapped in the glacial ice helped dig out the thirty foot deep pond bed as the glacier rolled back. A crystal clear spring runs through the ridge and comes to the surface at the pond’s bottom, feeding the pond with pure, clean water. Richard S. Thorsell, a professional conservationist, is concerned about the future of the animal and plant life in an around Sunfish Pond. “Sunfish Pond is what is called a “sterile” lake,” he said. He explained that it has practically no mineralization taking place in its Water. No limestone is dissolved in the water, as in so many lakes, and no fertilizer is in the water from the run-off of water used for agricultural purposes. Because of the lack of minerals in the water, few algae and other common water plants grow in the pond. Fish, which require algae as one source of food, are also few in number. But what life does dwell there is unusual for a New Jersey lake. A rare water plant finds an abode in Sunfish Pond. The Engleman’s Quill Work, a water plant related to the fern, is only known to live in half a dozen places in New Jersey. Looking like a clump of grass four or five inches high, the rare plant grows at depths of five to six feet. In recent years, a fairly rare animal has been found dwelling in water which comes from the pond. The Purple Salamander, found in the area around Sunfish Pond, is found nowhere else in New Jersey. “In the wilderness around the pond, the bear, porcupine, wild turkey and woodrat, the United State’s only native rat, were found living long after they were thought to be extinct in New Jersey,” said Mr. Thorsell. “And the hermit thrush, a very rare bird in this area of the country, was found living in trees close to the

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pond.” Dwarf mistletoe is part of the foliage around the pond. Found in bogs to the north and east, the Sunfish Pond locality is one of its few places of habitat in New Jersey. Silver Birch, a tree that grows in more northerly climates, is found in the woods around the pond. The Tocks Island Dam project that will drastically change the pond and woods around it is being planned to help meet the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvan-ia area’s growing power needs. It will supply those needs by generating hydro-electric power, and Sunfish Pond is slated to produce half a million kilowatts as part of the system. The Jersey Central Power and Light Company/ and the Public Service Electric and Gas Company envision this future for the little pond: the shoreline will be rimmed with an earthen dike to increase the pond’s capacity for holding water. During the night, when power demands are slack, water will be pumped up to the pond from the Delaware River, and during the day, When extra power is needed, the stored water will be allowed to roar back down the mountain and back* into the Delaware, turning generator turbines on the way. If this system is put into operation, the water level of Sunfish Pond may drop as much as eighty feet in ten hours. The abrupt rise and fall of the waiter level would be certain to kill off all the life in the pond. Muddy Delaware water will replace the crystal clear water now in the pond. The trees and foliage will be bulldozed down to make room for the power equipment. The pond, which is now a favorite camping spot for Boy Scouts and other nature lovers, would become useless for that

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purpose. The plan has conservationist groups throughout the tri-state area up in arms. The conservationists reason that the need for extra hydro-electric power is only temporary, that atomic power will soon be able to meet the area’s needs quite adequately. But, in the meanwhile, Sunfish Pond will hav been destroyed as a spot of natural beauty forever. Conservationists are concerned now with the pilgrimage scheduled for Sunday. Several thousand people are expected to take part in it, driving to the picnic grounds at Worthington State Park, and then hiking up the two and one half miles via a sloping mountain trail to the little pond. They hope to show the Delaware River Basin Commission that people are concerned enough about Sunfish Pond to justify finding alternate sites for the pumped storage reservoir. The Lenni Lenape League, a conservationist group devoted to saving Sunfish Pond, is leading the fight. The league recognizes that tlie little pond may be necessary for meeting the growing needs of modern society. But, on the other hand, the league feels that the pond is a unique geological phenomenon that must be saved. One league Statement puts the case in this way: “The quickening urbanization of the Atlantic Seaboard and the quickening pace of human activity requires prompt action in setting aside areas of refuge from the turmiodl of civilizaztion. Man contains within himself a biolqgic and psychologic need to touch the earth.”

From one spot in the Yellowstone National Park, a visitor may observe 12 separate forests, each buried in volcanic dust, each standing above the ruins of the one below all exposed in a 2,000 vertical cliff.

AT THE LIBRARY THE ZINZIN ROAD By Fletcher Knebel This author collaborated on “Seven Days in May ’’which was a fascinating novel of a few years ago. Now, striking out on his own, he’s come up with a good, interesting yarn. It deals with the Peace Corps in anew African nation. The common expression among Lie volunteers is AWA, which stands for West Africa Wins Again. The young people have a pretty rough time, but that’s what they expected. They have to deal with corrupt government agencies as well as snakes, ants, humidity, and boredom. ' Not every Peace Corps volunteer belongs to the YMCA. One is a downright atheist, and others are admittedly dodging the draft. But, by and large, they’re trying bo get a job done under difficult conditions. Everyone’s chalking off the days they have left to serve, yet experiences a bit of a homesick feeling when he does leave. Like the “Ugly American,” this book attempts to point out some of the problems which the United States faces in dispensing help Xo countries not really ready for all

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