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Cook with GSWA: Garlic Mustard Pesto & Beyond

This event has been rescheduled for Monday, May 24 at 5 pm.  Let’s get wild! Join us for a cooking demonstration where we will showcase items we have foraged and then turn them into food. We will talk about the benefits of foraging for edible invasive (non-native) species, for example, garlic mustard. Garlic mustard is one of the worst invaders of Northeast and Midwest American forests, reducing the diversity of all species. April through end of May is garlic mustard season so you will be able to easily find it and make your own pesto. Come learn about these and other types of plants where we can reduce their presence simply by eating them!

Free – $40.00

Volunteer for Stream Cleanup

City Of Water Day - Help clean our streams COW Day is a celebration of the waters that surround us. Great Swamp Watershed Association (GSWA)* invites you to observe this important day by helping us clean up the stream. Our theme this year is climate change and the impacts of flooding on water quality. We will highlight this issue by tracking and sharing the single-use plastic collected by our volunteers. VOLUNTEER CLEANUP LOCATIONS: Chatham River Park - Berkley Heights, Spring Garden Brook - Madison Loantaka Headwaters - Morristown, Canoe Launch - Livingston, Passaic River - Long Hill/Millington   Join in the fun and help get our streams healthy! Select your location and register to volunteer below *GSWA in partnership with NY/NJ HEP and the Hudson River Foundation

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Volunteers Needed to Spruce-up CMA

Great Swamp Watershed Association's CMA 1 Tiger Lily Ln, Morristown, NJ, United States

Ready to get a little dirty and sweaty in the swamp? Need community service hours. College students - looking for something to add to your resume? Join us on Friday mornings at the GSWA Conservation Management Area (CMA) to help us steward the land on the following days: July 16, 23, 30, and August 20, 27. We will work from 9 AM to 12:30 PM and enjoy some well-earned snacks provided by GSWA Director of Land Stewardship, Hazel England. We could really use your help getting our CMA tidied up by helping us with the following tasks: Carry in lumber, build and elevate boardwalks which will allow hikers to get through now flooded areas, clear branches and limbs that came down in recent storms, remove invasive plants, and woodchip the trails. Be sure to wear long pants, long sleeves, and hiking boots or old shoes you don’t mind getting muddy. Bring a hat and a reusable water bottle. We will provide bug spray, sun block, gloves, and all tools you will need. You’ll work hard, share some laughs, and enjoy some snacks. What better way to spend a Friday morning? See you there!

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Volunteers Needed to Spruce-up CMA

Great Swamp Watershed Association's CMA 1 Tiger Lily Ln, Morristown, NJ, United States

Ready to get a little dirty and sweaty in the swamp? Need community service hours? College students - looking for something to add to your resume? Join us on Friday mornings at the GSWA Conservation Management Area (CMA) to help us steward the land on the following days: July 23, 30, and August 20, 27. We will work from 9 AM to 12:30 PM and enjoy some well-earned snacks provided by GSWA Director of Land Stewardship, Hazel England. We could really use your help getting our CMA tidied up by helping us with the following tasks: Carry in lumber, build and elevate boardwalks which will allow hikers to get through now flooded areas, clear branches and limbs that came down in recent storms, remove invasive plants, and woodchip the trails. Be sure to wear long pants, long sleeves, and hiking boots or old shoes you don’t mind getting muddy. Bring a hat and a reusable water bottle. We will provide bug spray, sun block, gloves, and all tools you will need. You’ll work hard, share some laughs, and enjoy some snacks. What better way to spend a Friday morning? See you there!

Free

Twilight Hike @ CMA in Harding Twp.

Great Swamp Watershed Association's CMA 1 Tiger Lily Ln, Morristown, NJ, United States

Registration for this hike closes Friday, July 23 @ 3 PM   C'mon out for a twilight hike with GSWA’s own Hazel and Sandra at our 73-acre Conservation Management Area (CMA) in Harding Twp. As the sun sets and the stars come out, we will walk and talk about the major wetlands restoration that happened this past January and all the great new builds at the CMA. We'll also check out the marsh, upland beech forest and vernal wetlands. Special gathering points have been built around the trails through our stewardship days providing plenty of space to spread out and take in the scenes. An evening summer hike is a great way to relax our minds, bodies, and souls so, sign up today! If the hike is sold out, or if you are unable to attend please email [email protected]  to be added to a waitlist. Space is limited. If you are sick, have a fever, or have been exposed to someone who may have COVID-19, for the safety of everyone, please do NOT attend the hike and cancel by emailing [email protected] so we can invite the next person on the waitlist as space is very limited What to Bring: A tight […]

Free – $40.00

Evening Briefing (POSTPONED): What’s this PFAS doing in my water?

Great Swamp Watershed Association HQ 568 Tempe Wick Rd, Morristown, NJ, United States

Our Evening Briefing has been postponed because the PFS data was delayed. We will announce the new date and reopen registration soon for in-person or via a Zoom webinar to learn all about PFAS (Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) - what they are, how they impact our waters, why you should care, and how we are testing for them. Come get the low-down from Sandra LaVigne, GSWA Director of Water Quality Programs. This talk will also include an update on microplastics. If you plan to access the talk via Zoom, log-in info will be emailed to you prior to the event. For those who plan join us in person, light refreshments will be served. For the safety and comfort of all, we do ask that you wear your mask while indoors. Space will be limited to the first 15 people to register. Please email Nancy: [email protected] for the following reasons: to be added to a waitlist if you are unable to attend (so we may extend the invitation to the next person on the waitlist) If you are sick, have a fever, or have been exposed to someone who may have COVID-19, for the safety of everyone, please do NOT attend the program […]

Sold Out Free – $40.00

Volunteers to Spruce-up CMA – July 30

Great Swamp Watershed Association's CMA 1 Tiger Lily Ln, Morristown, NJ, United States

Ready to get a little dirty and sweaty in the swamp? Need community service hours. College students - looking for something to add to your resume? Join us on Friday mornings at the GSWA Conservation Management Area (CMA) to help us steward the land on the following days: July 30, and August 20, 27. We will work from 9 AM to 12:30 PM and enjoy some well-earned snacks provided by GSWA Director of Land Stewardship, Hazel England. We could really use your help getting our CMA tidied up by helping us with the following tasks: Carry in lumber, build and elevate boardwalks which will allow hikers to get through now flooded areas, clear branches and limbs that came down in recent storms, remove invasive plants, and woodchip the trails. Be sure to wear long pants, long sleeves, and hiking boots or old shoes you don’t mind getting muddy. Bring a hat and a reusable water bottle. We will provide bug spray, sun block, gloves, and all tools you will need. You’ll work hard, share some laughs, and enjoy some snacks. What better way to spend a Friday morning? See you there!

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Volunteers to Spruce-up CMA – August 6

Ready to get a little dirty and sweaty in the swamp? Need community service hours. College students - looking for something to add to your resume? Join us on Friday mornings at the GSWA Conservation Management Area (CMA) to help us steward the land on the following days: August 6, 13, 20, 27. We will work from 9 AM to 12:30 PM and enjoy some well-earned snacks provided by GSWA Director of Land Stewardship, Hazel England. We could really use your help getting our CMA tidied up by helping us with the following tasks: Carry in lumber, build and elevate boardwalks which will allow hikers to get through now flooded areas, clear branches and limbs that came down in recent storms, remove invasive plants, and woodchip the trails. Be sure to wear long pants, long sleeves, and hiking boots or old shoes you don’t mind getting muddy. Bring a hat and a reusable water bottle. We will provide bug spray, sun block, gloves, and all tools you will need. You’ll work hard, share some laughs, and enjoy some snacks. What better way to spend a Friday morning? See you there!

Free

SOLD OUT – 8/10: Drew Forest Hike

Drew University Forest Preserve’s Zuck Arboretum Madison, NJ, United States

THIS HIKE IS SOLD OUT. Please email [email protected] to be added to the waitlist.   Friends of the Drew Forest invite GSWA supporters on a special, guided tour. It's an easy, mostly flat walk and takes just over an hour to complete. You’ll visit ponds and view wildlife. You will also learn how protecting this area from deer and invasive plant removal have brought back lost or diminished plant species, pollinators, food webs, and forest structure. We'll be walking on unpaved paths that may be damp in spots, so wear appropriate shoes, long pants with socks and long sleeves or carry bug spray. There are no rest room facilities. If you have binoculars bring them along! It takes 10 minutes to walk from Drew's visitor parking lot, so please arrive early. The Drew University Forest Preserve, in Madison, is 53 acres of unusually contiguous natural forest, a biodiversity hotspot because of its diversity and extent, and because of 12 years of successful forest restoration, on much of the Preserve’s acreage. The Preserve is one of the only forests in the county with a native understory, where beech and sassafras seedlings thrive, where pollinators and other insects survive along with the birds […]

Free – $40.00

Volunteers to Spruce-up CMA – August 13 is POSTPONED

Great Swamp Watershed Association's CMA 1 Tiger Lily Ln, Morristown, NJ, United States

August 13th is postponed because of heat advisory Please sign up for August 20th or August 26th dates   Ready to get a little dirty and sweaty in the swamp? Need community service hours. College students - looking for something to add to your resume? Join us on Friday mornings at the GSWA Conservation Management Area (CMA) to help us steward the land on the following days: August 20, 27. We will work from 9 AM to 12:30 PM and enjoy some well-earned snacks provided by GSWA Director of Land Stewardship, Hazel England. We could really use your help getting our CMA tidied up by helping us with the following tasks: Carry in lumber, build and elevate boardwalks which will allow hikers to get through now flooded areas, clear branches and limbs that came down in recent storms, remove invasive plants, and woodchip the trails. Be sure to wear long pants, long sleeves, and hiking boots or old shoes you don’t mind getting muddy. Bring a hat and a reusable water bottle. We will provide bug spray, sun block, gloves, and all tools you will need. You’ll work hard, share some laughs, and enjoy some snacks. What better way to […]