NORTH JERSEY GREEN: Drinking water, forests and answers beneath your feet
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NORTH JERSEY GREEN: Drinking water, forests and answers beneath your feet

By Claire Whitcomb for Madison Eagle

“The Drew Forest’s importance to the aquifer is one reason why six towns have passed resolutions supporting a market-value conservation sale that would preserve the Forest for public and educational use. The towns are Madison, Chatham Borough, Chatham Township, Parsippany, Morris Township and Morristown.”

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GSWA Joins Effort to Preserve Drew Forest: Board of Trustees Sign Resolution of Support
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GSWA Joins Effort to Preserve Drew Forest: Board of Trustees Sign Resolution of Support

“Great Swamp Watershed Association is proud to support this important preservation initiative,” stated Sally Rubin, GSWA Executive Director. “The Drew Forest is an invaluable natural resource that will be lost forever if the Borough is ordered by the court to allow construction and the land is fragmented by development.”

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Madison Republican candidates weigh in on Drew University lawsuit, effort to save forest
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Madison Republican candidates weigh in on Drew University lawsuit, effort to save forest

By Madison Eagle

“Conversing with voters at the Madison Farmers Market on June 30, Lenora Clark and Matt Van Natten, Republican candidates for Borough Council, heard residents’ concerns over the recent legal motion filed by Drew University.

Clark and Van Natten have been vocal supporters of the local efforts to preserve the Drew Forest as Drew seeks to sell some of its vacant land assets, according to a July 6 statement from the Madison Republican Committee.”

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Great Swamp Watershed Association Joins Effort to Preserve Drew Forest
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Great Swamp Watershed Association Joins Effort to Preserve Drew Forest

By Madison Eagle

“The Great Swamp Watershed Association (GSWA) has become the latest organization to officially join in the efforts to save the Drew Forest from development.

Located on the Drew University campus in Madison, Drew Forest is a 53-acre undeveloped, biodiverse preserve that is home to glacial ponds and some of the oldest trees in Morris County. The forest has been called a living classroom for teaching and research for Drew University students and the wider community.”

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Whitcomb, Environmental Heads Encourage Brainstorming At Drew Forest Event

By Tyler Barth for TAPintoMadison

“About 75 residents, including former Councilwoman Astri Baillie, attended the event, where they learned from the Friends of the Drew Forest and Claire Whitcomb of the [Madison] Environmental Commission about what the Forest provides for the region and how the fight to save it is going.”

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Florham Park filmmaker produces video urging preservation of Drew Forest in Madison
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Florham Park filmmaker produces video urging preservation of Drew Forest in Madison

By Alex Parker-Magyar for New Jersey Hills

“A Florham Park man has created a short film documenting the beauty of the Drew University Forest Preserve in Madison – and the destruction he says will follow should the university decide to execute a plan to sell parts of the forest to a housing developer.

The university is considering having parts of the forest rezoned for housing and sold to a builder to help mitigate its ongoing financial troubles. The plan has drawn widespread opposition from students, alumni and area residents, whose Save the Drew Forest advocacy campaign recently drew the curiosity of Florham Park resident Bill Lynch.”

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Schiff board urges preservation of Drew Forest in Madison
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Schiff board urges preservation of Drew Forest in Madison

By Alex Parker-Magyar for New Jersey Hills Media Group

“Another environmental group has thrown its support behind the Save the Drew Forest campaign.

The Schiff Natural Land Trust, steward of the 780-acre Schiff Nature Preserve in the Mendhams, has become the latest group to urge the preservation of the threatened forest preserve on the Drew University campus.”

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