num_pages: 40
description: The 20000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands people have dammed up drained built over and polluted this formerly vibrant ecosystemand all but destroyed it. Still signs of life remain; under bridges on the edges of parking lots and beside train tracks. Slowly but surely with help from activist groups government organizations and ordinary people the resilient creatures of the Meadowlands are making a comeback and the wetlands are recovering.
language: English
title: Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)