Mark Demitroff:
CLASS OF 1978
Buena Regional High SchoolClass of 1978
Buena, NJ
University of Delaware - Graduate SchoolClass of 9999
Newark, DE
Cook CollegeClass of 1982
New brunswick, NJ
Mark's Story
During the torrid summer of '88, I met my wife Patty at a friend's gathering in Buffalo Hollow near High Bridge, NJ. She asked just three questions of me -Smoke? No! -Do drugs? No! -Eat onions and garlic? Why yes! I simply inquired if she knew how to make a good strawberry-rhubarb pie, and she did! The next day we danced to Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydego Band, so I was hooked. After proposing at Success Lake near Cassville (needed all the help I could get), we were married on our rented farm in Cream Ridge a year later. My dear daughter arrived in 1993.
We returned to Richland in '97, cleared land that had once been a far-off parcel of the family farm, and built our current home. It was great to be back- the general store, Carlo's station, Pinelands forest, cedar-stained water to kayak... Yet something was amiss, t...Expand for more
he place was changing for the worse. Sprawl crept in. Wetlands were drying up. As a volunteer on the local environmental commission, I discovered some unusual geologic features from the Ice Age. So I hooked-up with a renowned scientist from Canada, started publishing on the subject, and passionately pursue the cultural and environmental dynamics of our cold, dry, and windy past. Really, it's up to us to champion the natural drama that is the Pine Barrens before it¿s all paved over.
- President of Buckhorn Garden Service, Inc. (1984 to present)
- New Jersey State Certified Tree Expert #285 (1986 to present)
- Cook College of Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
B.S. Agricultural Sciences: Plant Emphasis (1982)
- University of Delaware, Newark, DE
M.S. in Geography (2007)
Ph.D. student scholar, Climatology, anticipated 2009
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