Useful Links
Business Partners in Preservation:
We encourage you to patronize our Business Partners in Preservation
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
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Blue Ridge Mountain Sports (BRMS), at the Princeton Shopping Center, is a charter member of Partnership for Public Paths, an innovative collaboration among D&R Greenway, the New Jersey Trails Association, and BRMS that contributes to and provides grants for local trail projects.
According to Alan Hershey, Chairman of the Board at D&R Greenway and founding member of the New Jersey Trails Association, “Partnership for Public Paths is really a very simple idea -- individual members of the community working together with a like-minded business to create inviting places to walk – in Princeton and in neighboring towns.”
D&R Greenway’s President & CEO, Linda Mead, remarked, “funds generated from the Partnership for Public Paths will give people better access to the open spaces their tax dollars have helped to permanently protect.”
BRMS is also a sponsor of the Hopewell Valley Trail Run at D&R Greenway's St. Michaels Farm Preserve in Hopewell, NJ.
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports is located in the Princeton Shopping Center, 310 Harrison Street, Princeton, NJ, or call 609-921-6078.
Small World Coffee
All proceeds from Small World Coffee's Love Show at their Witherspoon Cafe in February 2011 benefitted D&R Greenway. A total of over $1300 was raised during the event!
Click here to read the press release about Small World Coffee becoming a Business Partner in Preservation.
Small World Coffee is located at 14 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, and 254 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. Or call 609.924.4377 to reach either location.
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Government and Nonprofit Partners in Preservation:
Hamilton-Trenton-Bordentown Marsh -
A Vital Natural Resource
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Friends for the Marsh is a project originated by D&R Greenway to preserve and protect the Hamilton-Trenton-Bordentown Marsh. The organization leads paddling trips, walks and historic tours in the Marsh region.
Brochure #1: Magic of the Marsh
Brochure #2: A Ride with the Tide through the Marsh (large file - 20MB)
At the western edge of central New Jersey's densely populated urban centers, between the cities of Trenton, Bordentown and Hamilton Township lies the Hamilton-Trenton-Bordentown Marsh, the Delaware River's northernmost freshwater tidal wetland.
The Marsh's diverse habitats support over 1,200 species of plants and wildlife. Waterbirds such as osprey, great blue heron, ducks, geese and great egrets thrive in and around its waterways. The Marsh has also supported humans since pre-historic times. Native Americans lived here 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. Present-day visitors to the Marsh can experience this fascinating ecosystem on over 8 miles of walking trails and 11 miles of water trails.
Cooperative Stewardship Plan (CSP) for the
Hamilton-Trenton-Bordentown Marsh
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Thank you to all who participated in development of this plan by attending meetings, providing comments, and otherwise supporting this effort. The CSP is a guide designed to encourage cooperative stewardship of this precious resource among all Marsh stakeholders, private as well as public. Completion of this plan was shepherded by Friends for the Marsh. If you would like information about joining the Friends for the Marsh, please contact us here.
Click here, or on cover to the left, to open and download a copy of the Cooperative Stewardship Plan for the Hamilton-Trenton-Bordentown Marsh.
NJDEP Green Acres Program
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New Jersey’s Green Acres Program, part of the Department of Environmental Protection, is a national leader in open space preservation, and is celebrating its 50th year!
Whether you enjoy riding a bike along an old canal path, walking the dog in your city park, watching songbirds flitter around a wild meadow, going for a long hike in the woods, launching your boat in a lake for a relaxing day of fishing, or simply watching your kids have fun at the neighborhood playground, your life has undoubtedly been touched many times over by the DEP’s Green Acres Program.
Green Acres has helped to preserve over 1.2 million acres of New Jersey’s natural landscape, protecting water quality and wildlife habitat and providing the public with parks, beaches, historic sites and natural areas to enjoy in perpetuity. The just-released New Jersey Open Space Map provides a stunning visual and details about where these properties are located and how they are administered.
Crossroads of the American Revolution
New Jersey's historic landscapes and Revolutionary War Sites are being recognized through a National Heritage Area - the first in New Jersey. Learn more:
Crossroads of the American Revolution
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New Jersey Trails Association
Asociación de Reservas Naturales Privadas de Guatemala,
Our International Sister Land Trust in Guatemala
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William Rawlyk, former Director of Land Acquisition at D&R Greenway and Federico Fahsen shook hands as an international sister land trust partnership was formed to preserve rainforests in Central America and the Sourland Mountain forests in central New Jersey.
The survival of over 65 species of neo-tropical migrant songbirds depend on both the ecosystems of the rainforests in Central America and the forests in the Sourland Mountains. Click here to learn about D&R Greenway's sister land trust partnership with the Asociación de Reservas Naturales Privadas de Guatemala.
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Federico Jose Fahsen Rosales
Dedicated his life to the conservation of species
and creating private nature reserves
Federico Jose Fahsen Morales was a life-long conservationist who was a visionary and a man of action. In August 1998, Federico created the Association of Private Nature Reserves of Guatemala. In early 2004, Federico Fahsen attended an international land trust rally where he met D&R Greenway Land Trust and there, a seed was planted for preserving habitats of neotropical songbirds that winter in Mexico and Guatemala, but migrate to New Jersey's Sourland Mountains in the Spring and Summer.
Federico's life ended in a traffic accident in July 2010. He is missed by everyone who worked with him and witnessed his incredible spirit for life and love of nature.