Remember, without OUR oversight of OUR elected officials, corporate development interests can and will pave over OUR environment. We can't let that happen now or ever. Thank you for your help, Capt. This powerful strategic alliance is designed to safeguard Bergen County's drinking water and provide a means by which people can take ownership of the watershed that provides their drinking water. Of particular concern to conservationists are sixty acres in Emerson and River Vale, which are under imminent threat of development.
Wildlife abounds throughout the woods.
If these forests are lost to development, residents and ratepayers will bear terrible costs for cleaning up polluted water supplies and providing new purification infrastructure. With real estate prices skyrocketing, watershed protection requires serious funding - the kind that NJCF has been successfully doing for forty years. NJCF, which has preserved over 77,000 acres of New Jersey open space since 1960, will assume financial management for the new project, which was launched with major startup support from the Environmental Endowment for New Jersey. NJCF's role has been underwritten by generous grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, The Educational Foundation of America and the Victoria Foundation. Those who wish to join in this important undertaking can issue a tax-deductible donation to NJCF via check or credit card by mail, telephone or Internet.