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- Planning Board to Consider Adding Environmental Resource Inventory to Master Plan
- Environmental Resource Inventory Available for Public Comment
- Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld, Rutgers Professor and Member of the Environmental Commission, Passes After Year Long Battle with Acute Leukemia
- Rutgers Bloustein Planning Student Propose Upgrade to Environmental Education Center and Native Plant Reserve
- Highland Park Earth and Health Fair 2011 on Tuesday, May 10, 6-9 PM
- Raritan River Events June 12th and 16th
- Slides from Environmental Resource Inventory Presentation
- Environmental Resource Inventory Presentation, February 17 – Public Participation Needed!
- Borough/EC Receives Grant For Environmental Resource Inventory
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Rutgers Bloustein Planning Student Propose Upgrade to Environmental Education Center and Native Plant Reserve
Graduate students from the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy at Rutgers University have proposed a significant upgrade to the Eugene Young Environmental Education Center (EEC) building, river access, and further remediation of the Native Plant Reserve. On May 3, … Continue reading
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Volunteer Remove Invasives and Cleanup Winter Damage
This a followup to the previous post to the Volunteer Pick Invasives at Native Plant Reserves (which should have been published in June but I neglected to hit Publish). On May 16 The Environmental Committee of Congregation Ahavas Achim, the Environmental … Continue reading
Arnold’s Farewell
I suppose it is about time I said goodbye as your (supposedly anonymous) news writer all these years since the Highland Park Environmental web site started. I’m now in Hayward California (another Tree City USA town), but I’ve left a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Henderson, Environmental Center, Meadows
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Global Warming Bypasses Environmental Ed Center?
Not really, but in a winter with (as usual now) few snows to match the snows of yesteryear, one snow finally dumped on us and gave the center its insulating white “snow roof.” This lies atop the summer’s insulating “green … Continue reading
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Eugene Young Environmental Ed Center Gains a Grant and Moves Ahead
Good news. We have been promised a $5,000 grant to install the solar panels in the green-frame shade structure, the last building item we’ve been waiting for. The Edison Wetlands Association arranged that grant for us, along with a new … Continue reading
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The Early Bird Gets the Nest
The first bird to nest directly on Highland Park’s Eugene Young Environmental Education Center (NJ) chose a quite visible spot (see photo at left) on the raucous green solar roof structure. Actually, the structure is not yet truly solar: we … Continue reading
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Environmental Ed Center Gets its Furniture.
Step by step the Eugene Young Environmental Education Center on River Road at the Native Plant Reserve is being outfitted. New furniture will allow new activities to serve youth groups and adults interested in the local Highland Park (NJ) natural … Continue reading
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