NBC Reports on Kane Tract Wetlands Restoration
NBC reporter Brian Thompson paid a vist to the Meadowland Conservation Trust’s Kane Tract to report on the largest wetlands restoration effort to date in the Meadowlands.
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Public Notice
Please take notice that the next Meadowlands Conservation Trust meeting is on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 10:00am.
All Meadowlands Conservation Trust meetings are held at:
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Environment Center
Two DeKorte Park Plaza, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
All Meetings begin at 10:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
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Letter to the Editor: Enjoy Natural Place in Our Back Yard
Regarding ” ‘On the threshold of a dream’: Officials kick off restoration project in Meadowlands” (Page L-1, May 25): As a resident of Moonachie for more than 40 years and education chairman of the Bergen County Audubon Society, it did my heart good to read about the Meadowlands restoration project going on right in our [...]
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Volunteer Spotlight: Karen & Bruce Riede
Karen and Bruce Riede are residents of Ridgefield, NJ. Bruce is a retired chemical engineer who worked at Unilever for 31 years. During the last ten years of his employment, he was manager of Safety and Health. Currently, he is an EMT serving in his 39th year with the Ridgefield Ambulance Corps. Karen worked as [...]
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Tree Swallow Bird Boxes Needed!
Tree Swallows nest at a number of sites in the Meadowlands and Hackensack River watershed every spring. In order, to accommodate them, MCT is seeking donated bird boxes or a group that is willing to make the boxes as a community service project.
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Richard P. Kane Natural Area Walk
Meadowlands Conservation Trust Executive Director Tina Schvejda, volunteers Don Smith and Dennis Schvejda walked a portion of the Richard P. Kane Natural Area to assess completed and pending work on several breaches in an historic berm protecting the tract and surrounding properties from tidal flooding.
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Vision Unveiled For “Mosaic Of Habitats” In The New York/New Jersey Estuary
The article, “Vision Unveiled For ‘Mosaic Of Habitats’ In The New York/New Jersey Estuary,” provides a good overview of the restoration plan for the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary. Of the Hackensack Watershed, MCT’s focus area, the Meadowlands are within the estuary. The plan is quite ambitious… short and long-term goals include creating 1,200 acres [...]
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Trust Receives Trail Grant
Earlier this autumn, 48 New Jersey trail projects received a total of $833,109 in funding from the Federal Highway Administration’s Recreational Trails Program. The Meadowlands Conservation Trust received a federal recreational trail grant for the Richard P. Kane Natural Area. Here’s the NJDEP press release…
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