The Trust for Public Land - New Jersey
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Credit: John Rae
In the nation's most densely populated state, The Trust for Public Land has protected nearly 25,000 acres and helped to pass several million dollars in new state spending on conservation. We have worked for more than a decade to safeguard water quality, recreation opportunities, and wildlife habitat with focus in the Barnegat Bay watershed along the Atlantic coast. In Newark, we're building urban parks and playgrounds to create community play space: Nat Turner Park, completed in 2009, is the city's largest.
08/03/13: For decades, people who care about Newark’s riverfront have created visions and organized to bring Newarkers back to their river. Working together, the City of Newark, Essex County,.....read more »
06/12/13: The Early Street Community Garden has been permanently protected, announced The Trust for Public Land, the Town of Morristown, and Grow It Green Morristown, which collaborated on its.....read more »
03/26/13: The Trust for Public Land, Garnier—a subsidiary of L’Oreal, USA—and the City of Newark’s Office of Sustainability and its Department of Neighborhood Services announced today the.....read more »
Once owned by the Sisters of Saint John the Baptist, this new park in Mendham offers lovely nature trails and public athletic fields.
McVickers Brook Preserve and the adjacent Shiff Preserve provides the public with more than 450 acres of uninterrupted open space.
Created in 1917 for the Boy Scouts, this camp is now part of the Bergen County park system.
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