Tag: Watershed Institute
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Sourland Mountain Region gains 10K trees in 2022
For Hillsborough Township resident Jennifer Bryson, the “tremendous loss of ash trees” in the area in and around her property has been “devastating.” That is why when the Sourland Conservancy (SC) expanded its efforts to include plantings directly on private land through a grant from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in partnership with the FoHVOS…
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First Lady Tammy Murphy honors HVCHS’ Youth Environmental Society for first place in climate challenge
Hopewell Valley Central High School’s Youth Environmental Society won first place in the New Jersey Student Climate Challenge. First Lady Tammy Murphy honored the team with a $2,500 grant for their submission on June 8, according to a press release on June 27. The students’ winning entry documented their process of researching and developing a…
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First Lady Tammy Murphy honors HVCHS’ Youth Environmental Society for first place in climate challenge
Hopewell Valley Central High School’s Youth Environmental Society won first place in the New Jersey Student Climate Challenge. First Lady Tammy Murphy honored the team with a $2,500 grant for their submission on June 8, according to a press release on June 27. The students’ winning entry documented their process of researching and developing a…
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Residents remove almost 350 pounds of trash from Etra Lake Park
East Windsor Township and The Watershed Institute co-sponsored, in cooperation with the Americorps Watershed Ambassador Program, a stream cleanup at Etra Lake Park in East Windsor. More than 70 volunteers, young and adult, joined in the stream cleanup on April 23, collecting over 347 pounds of trash and recyclables at the park on Disbrow Road,…
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More than 700 pounds of trash removed from Etra Lake Park in East Windsor
More than 80 volunteers participated in a cleanup of Etra Lake Park in East Windsor on April 24, collecting 706 pounds of trash and recycling. The Watershed Institute works with residents, municipal, county and state leaders and local groups on a wide variety of initiatives and actions to plan smart, grow community and preserve and…
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Opinion: Save the Sourlands
I was having coffee with a friend once, and she said, “I’m not a birder. Why should I care about birds?” I said, “You love coffee, so you must love birds!” The brilliant scarlet tanager spends winter in Central and South America. Like lots of colorful songbirds, she spends her winter vacation in the dense…
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LOOSE ENDS 6/26: Raising awareness for lung cancer
By Pam Hersh Two weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Isabella de la Houssaye asking me to join her friends and family on a race team participating in the Pennington-based Watershed Institute’s “Solstice Run” to protect and restore clean water. The event would be virtual – each registrant would commit to walking…
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Local non-profits preserve headwaters of Mountain Brook, Lake
Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS), the Watershed Institute, the Ridgeview Conservancy and the Municipality of Princeton closed last week on a 3-acre lot on Ridgeview Road containing headwaters of the Mountain Brook. The brook feeds into Mountain Lake in the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, one of Princeton’s most popular passive recreation areas.…