How fortunate are we who live in the Mullica Valley Watershed, the vast area of protected Pinelands and its pristine streams that build into the mighty Mullica River, which drains to Great Bay and finally, the ocean. It’s the cleanest estuary in the megalopolis that lies between Boston and Washington, D.C.

Professor Kenneth W. Able spent 30 years surveying the natural wonders of this watershed as director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station before his retirement. An ichthyologist, he has taught and learned from numerous graduate students as they pursued their oceanographic studies.