Environment:

According to experts in forestry, horticulture and fauna, there exists in Smoke Rise an extraordinary variety of trees, 170 different kinds of birds and wild fowl, 300 varieties of plants, wildflowers, shrubs and 40 varieties of animals.

This is due to its location in Jerseyan sector of the Scanian or Sub Aftonian Glacier, according to geologists, encompassed the Smoke Rise area more than 25,000 years ago.  It extended some seven hundred miles south of Smoke Rise and when it broke up and melted it determined the climate, dividing that of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States into two regions, the Northern and the Southern.  Smoke Rise is just about in the Dead Center of these two regions, which accounts for the bi-regional variety and the unusually great number of species of its flora and fauna.  Much of the vegetation,  the bird and animal life is indigenous to both climatic regions.