Loantaka Watershed Grant Announced

The NJ DEP has granted $300,000 to GSWA to implement agricultural pollution control projects to reduce pathogens and nutrient loadings in the Loantaka Watershed.

"Funded through federal Clean Water Act grants, the projects are designed to reduce the nonpoint source pollution to restore and protect water quality in priority watersheds. Nonpoint source pollution results from animal waste, fertilizers, motor vehicle fluids, litter and other pollutants that are washed into local waterways by stormwater runoff." (Daily Record)

We are very eager to begin work on this project and hope you will continue to follow our blog for project updates!

For the Daily Record's full article please click here: http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20110128/COMMUNITIES/110127064/1005/NEWS01/NJ-to-spend--800-000-on-Troy-Brook--Great-Swamp

WET Workshop

Workshops for Educators: Project WET Workshop with Additional Great Swamp Focus


Saturday, March 26, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at GSWA Headquarters, 568 Tempe Wick Rd., Morristown

This hands-on, action-packed workshop is an interdisciplinary, supplemental water education program for K-12 formal and non-formal educators. Workshop participants will learn by doing, experiencing activities they can use to teach all kinds of water concepts — from the water cycle to water properties, aquatic ecosystems and water pollution prevention.

For additional information please contact hazele@greatswamp.org or call 973-538-3500


Workshop is $15 and includes breakfast. Six professional development credits conferred. To learn more and register online, visit www.greatswamp.org/Education.htm#workshops.

Winter Exploration

Come join us in the New Year to explore the wildlife of the Great Swamp! Many creatures make themselves scarce when the temperature drops, so we will be checking for scats, tracks, and other tell tale signs of who is living in the swamp this winter. This program is free for members. For non-members, the fee is $10 per adult, $5 for each child five and over, and $30 per family.


The program begins at 10 and will run until about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 8th, 2011. The meeting place will be at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in the parking area of the former Friends of Great Swamp gift store on Pleasant Plains Rd. in Basking Ridge.

For information on how to become a member and attend all programs for free please visit:

http://www.greatswamp.org/

Strategies for watershed to be held Dec 21

Students of the Rutgers University Landscape Architecture class will be presenting the final results of its recent inventory of the physical and social landscapes of the Great Swamp Watershed from 10 am-12 pm at the Madison Public Library.

Free coffee and doughnuts will be served, we hope to see you there. If you have any questions please call GSWA at 973-538-3500 or email srubin@greatswamp.org

One Week to the Green Acres Gala!

We are getting so excited here at GSWA, the gala is a week from today! We have just received some really exciting items that we wanted to share with all of you. We will be auctioning off two trips: an Ecotrip to St. John's and a cottage in Ireland. We will also have tons of sports tickets and some beautiful fashions as well. As always, there will be plenty of wine and delicious food, hope to see you all there!

We are proud to annouce that our sponsors include Merck, Investors Savings Bank, Peapack Gladstone Bank, JM Sorge Inc., and PSEG

For additional information please visit our website at http://www.greatswamp.org/ or email at amaddaluna@greatswamp.org

GSWA Gala

For all of those sports fans out there... GSWA will have Knicks, Nets, Yankees, and Mets tickets at our annual gala this year! For the ladies we will have tickets to the View and tickets to Regis and Kelly as well! The gala is in just a couple of short weeks so if you have not already sent in your RSVP card please do so as soon as possible so you can join the fun! For more information visit http://www.greatswamp.org/ or email: Amaddaluna@greatswamp.org ...remember the gala is October 14th at the  Basking Ridge Country Club.

Sponsorship Announcements and More Auction Items!

GSWA is proud to annouce that Merck and JM Sorge, Inc. will be sponsoring the 2010 Green Acres Gala.

We have also received some new auction items which include roundtrip airfare to Orlando, Knicks tickets, a one hour facial at RIdgewood European Day Spa, and tickets to the Morristown Community Theater.

The event is less than a month away, and we hope to see you there! For additional information or to find out how you can help us this year visit our webpage at http://www.greatswamp.org/ or email amaddaluna@greatswamp.org. We are available by phone at 973-538-3500 x 14