Sometimes all it takes is a seemingly innocuous public notice put out by government agency that can tip the public off that there's something seriously amiss in the bureaucracy. If COVID taught us anything, it's that we need to pay close attention for ourselves.
Such was this case over the weekend when DEP's New Jersey State Parks, Forests and Historic Sites Facebook page posted an advisory that a portion of the Sussex Brach Trail in Lafayette was going to closed for further notice because the United States Department of Agriculture had confirmed that over 100 black vultures had died in that portion of the trail from Avian Influeneza (bird flu).
