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2019 ANNUAL REPORT 27327 NJCF 2020AR C.Qxp Layout 1 9/3/20 2:11 PM Page 2 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:11 PM Page 1 CELEBRATING Photo by Ernest Cozens Ernest by Photo 60 YEARS 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:11 PM Page 2 TRUSTEES FROM NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION Rosina B. Dixon, M.D. HONORARY TRUSTEES PRESIDENT Catherine M. Cavanaugh Wendy Mager Hon. James Florio L EADERSHIP FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Hon. Thomas H. Kean Joseph Lemond Hon. Maureen Ogden SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Hon. Christine Todd Whitman It would be an understatement to say that Robert J. Wolfe* MICHELE S. BYERS ROSINA “NINA” DIXON TREASURER 2020 hasn’t turned out the way anyone expected. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PRESIDENT Pamela P. Hirsch ADVISORY COUNCIL SECRETARY Edward F. Babbott* Penelope Ayers Bradley M. Campbell ASSISTANT SECRETARY Christopher J. Daggett New Jersey Conservation Foundation started the year planning a gala – music, dancing, great food and drink – to celebrate 60 years of conservation. John D. Hatch Cecilia Birge H.R. Hegener We looked forward to bringing people into nature: bird and butterfly walks, outdoor yoga, moth nights, children’s programs, tours of preserved lands. Jennifer Bryson Hon. Rush Holt Roger Byrom Susan J. Hullin Then the novel coronavirus hit and upended the whole world’s plans. The threat of COVID‐19 put a stop to most in‐person events. Finn Caspersen, Jr. Cynthia Kellogg Theodore Chase, Jr. Blair MacInnes But it didn’t stop the celebration of our 60th anniversary and the 125,000‐plus acres of open space and farmland permanently preserved since 1960! Jack R. Cimprich Thomas J. Maher John L. Dana Scott McVay Instead, a virtual party and auction on the summer solstice, June 20, was a great success! Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by online to watch Leslie Ficcaglia David F. Moore musical performances, bid on unique items and experiences, see messages from current and past governors, ask questions about nature and wildlife, Clement Fiori Mary W. Moore* and request favorite songs from a live DJ. Chad Goerner John Parker Neil Grossman Ingrid W. Reed Douglas Haynes L. Keith Reed The coronavirus didn’t stop people’s enjoyment of nature. As most New Jersey schools and businesses locked down, parks, preserves and trails became Kenneth H. Klipstein II Jamie Kyte Sapoch more popular than ever. Across the state and beyond, people flocked to parks and open spaces for exercise, fresh air, a break from their couches and William T. Knox IV Leslie Sauer for the peace and quiet that only nature can bring. Some New Jersey Conservation Foundation preserves saw a record number of visitors. Andrew Kricun Tama Matsuoka Wong Kevin Kuchinski Lisa Evans Lewis Thank you to all our loyal members and friends for making the preservation of these special places possible! Without your donations and support over Michael S. Maglio EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR the past 60 years, New Jersey Conservation could not have preserved so many beautiful properties that provide recreation, protect wildlife habitat and Michele S. Byers Stephen W. Parker safeguard clean water. Fran Raymond Price Samantha Rothman Susan Swayne Enjoy this Annual Report and check out the decade‐by‐decade timeline of New Jersey Conservation Foundation’s major milestones over the past Louise Currey Wilson INCLUDES ALL 2019–2020 TRUSTEES 60 years. You should be proud, because YOU made these milestones happen! Lee Yeash * DENOTES DECEASED MEMBER With many thanks, For membership information, New Jersey Conservation Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve land and natural resources please visit our website at throughout New Jersey for the benefit of all. Through acquisition and stewardship, we protect strategic lands from the Highlands to www.njconservation.org or the Pine Barrens to the Delaware Bayshore. We promote strong land conservation policies at the local, state and federal levels, forge JOIN call us at 1‐888‐LANDSAVE. OUR Our mailing address is partnerships to achieve conservation goals, and provide support and technical assistance to partner groups. Since 1960, we have US! 170 Longview Road, Far Hills, NJ 07931. MISSION helped protect more than 125,000 acres of natural areas, farms, parks and water resources. Follow us on Facebook! @njconservation 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:11 PM Page 3 From our origin in 1960 as a local citizen group fighting to protect the Great Swamp to our current-day land preservation and advocacy projects throughout the state, New Jersey Conservation Foundation has accomplished a lot in the past 60 years! On the following pages, a timeline chronicles CELEBRATING the highlights of six decades working in the Garden State to preserve land and natural resources for the benefit of all. 660 Y0EARS 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:12 PM Page 4 1960 1961 In 1960, a grassroots The Great Swamp Committee of the North American Wildlife Foundation is officially established, led by group formed to stop housewife-turned-activist Helen Fenske. a large “jetport” Grassroots opposition mobilizes against from being built in Port Authority plan for 10,000-acre international the Great Swamp. “jetport” in the Great Swamp of Morris This small but mighty and Somerset counties. group would go on to much bigger things! 1965 1966 North Jersey Conservation Foundation Our first newsletter, makes its first purchase, the 77-acre Dismal Footprints, debuts. Harmony Preserve in Mendham Township, which is later turned over to the town. It’s the first time a nonprofit partners with the state Green Acres program. 60s 9 1 4 . New Jersey Conservation Foundation 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:12 PM Page 5 1961 1964 1965 Helen Fenske and other conservationists Preservation effort succeeds; the Great Swamp National go to Washington to convince federal Wildlife Refuge is dedicated with U.S. Secretary of the officials to support a national wildlife Interior Stewart L. Udall in attendance. refuge in the Great Swamp. The Great Swamp Committee extends its vision to become the North Jersey Conservation Foundation. 1967 1968 1969 Helen Fenske, Russell Myers of Morris County Parks, Hugh Stearns David Moore replaces of the Morristown Rotary Club, and the Junior League of Morristown Helen Fenske as develop idea for Patriots’ Path, a greenbelt along the Whippany Executive Director. River in Morris County, an area rich in Revolutionary War history. Over more than four decades, it would grow to become one of the county’s signature parks. We make first open space gift to newly-established New Jersey Natural Lands Trust, an agency created to accept donations of land from private property owners, donating 36 acres along the Rockaway Creek in Readington Township that were given to us by Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon Wattles. 2019 Annual Report . 5 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:12 PM Page 6 1970 1970 1972 The 1970s saw the We unveil new An 84-acre parcel in environmental Chester Township, broadening of our curriculum, “Education given to us by Corinne for Survival,” at a and Percy Chubb, was mission to encompass national educators’ transferred to the convention in San township, forming Chubb advocacy and land Francisco. At the time, Park. Later, 42 adjoining few schools incorpo- acres in Chester Borough preservation projects rated environmental were turned over to that education into their municipality, enlarging throughout New Jersey. curricula. Thousands of the park. This creates NJ Conservation begins weekly column, books were distributed our first conservation “The State We’re In,” commenting on environmental nationwide. easement, and one of the topics in New Jersey. The column is still published first in Morris County. today, running without a gap for 50 years. 1975 1976 1979 We build Newark’s first “instant” park on a NJ Conservation proposes “Rails for vacant half-acre lot across from City Hall. It is Trails” program to turn abandoned designed by our trustee Robert Zion, a noted railway corridors into hiking and landscape architect. Despite its temporary biking paths. design, the park is still there today. 70s After years of helping preserve land in Monmouth County, we help found the Monmouth Conservation Foundation. Edward and Joanne Mullen donate Walnford Mills, an 18th century house and gristmill on 9 41 acres in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, to us. We transfer the property to the Monmouth Conservation Foundation, 1 which later ensures its preservation as a county historic park. 6 . New Jersey Conservation Foundation 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:13 PM Page 7 1974 1974 1974 NJ Conservation acquires the 165-acre Cross Estate The first one-mile section in Bernardsville and transfer it to Morristown of Patriots’ Path opens National Historical Park. Basketball star Bill Bradley, in Mendham Township; just beginning his run for U.S. Senate, speaks at a master plan for the 27-mile the dedication. greenbelt park is finished the following year. North Jersey Conservation Foundation becomes New Jersey Conservation Foundation to reflect growing statewide focus. 1979 1979 1979 NJ Conservation preserves the 60-acre Landmark property tax assessment decision won McBride celery farm in heavily developed by us; State Division of Tax Appeals rules that Bergen County. It is later turned over to assessments must be lowered to reflect reduction the town of Allendale as the Celery Farm in market value of properties with conservation Natural Area. easements. The New Jersey Legislature approves the Pinelands Protection Act, one year after Jimmy Carter signs bill creating the million-acre Pinelands National Reserve. We were among the leading advocates for the Act, and had spent three years fundraising for Pinelands preservation. By year’s end, we hold nearly 2,000 acres in Pine Barrens. 2019 Annual Report . 7 27327 NJCF_2020AR_C.qxp_Layout 1 9/3/20 2:13 PM Page 8 1981 1981 1981 The 1980s brought NJ Conservation purchases 234 acres in Roxbury Township, Morris County, which eventually become further expansion of our Morris Canal Park.
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