Great Swamp Watershed Association
Protecting water and land in your town...
Please help us achieve our mission to protect drinking water and preserve land to maintain the natural beauty and enhance the livability of your town.
Visit Our Conservation Management Area!
You’re invited to explore our Conservation Management Area (CMA), a wooded 50-acre natural area in Harding Township that’s open to the public for walking and casual hiking. Though GSWA holds a number of scheduled events throughout the year — family hikes, group tours, and moonlight walks to name a few, you can enjoy the CMA on your own at your convenience [read more] [directions].
Verizon Volunteers Help their Local Service Area!
Twenty-five Verizon employees volunteered an April Saturday to remove invasive species, plant stakes and replant the Silver Brook with native shrubs. GSWA hopes to strengthen the link between corporations based within the watershed and the stewardship efforts taking place at the CMA. Other corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Pfizer have given workdays this spring too. To learn more about volunteer corporate workdays with GSWA, click here.
Summer 2009 Programs
Secret Places of the Watershed Hike
Moonlight Hike
Creatures of the Swamp —
Pond Dip for Families
For more information, click here.
Hot Breakfast, Cool Discussion
GSWA’s Breakfast Briefings are on vacation for July and August, and will resume in September. You can see what topics were covered in our Spring 2009 series here.
BioBlitz 2009
More than 60 scientists and over 240 people from around the region joined GSWA, Friends of Great Swamp and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on May 15-16 to participate in BioBlitz 2009, a 24-hour survey of anything that calls a designated portion of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge home! Click here for what we found and fun photos of the event.
GSWA Reference Library
Doing research? Want to learn about the history of the Great Swamp? Concerned about stormwater runoff? Check out GSWA’s Reference Library catalog containing information on what’s in our library.
Report on Water Quality in
Loantaka Brook
For more info, contact
Kelley Curran,
(973) 538-3500, ext. 16.
White Paper
Troubled Waters: Pharma Products in Our Water Supply
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Related Sites of Interest
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: www.fws.gov/northeast/greatswamp
Friends of Great Swamp NWR: www.friendsofgreatswamp.org
Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center (Morris County Park Commission): www.morrisparks.net/aspparks/gswampmain.asp
Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center: www.somersetcountyparks.org/programs/EEC/eec_main.htm