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Somerset County Environmental Education Center: Basking Ridge: Somerset: Skylands Region: 425-acre Lord Stirling Park, ecosystem of the area around the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association: Hopewell Township: Mercer: Delaware River Region: Watershed Center for environmental education on the 930-acre ...
Lord Stirling Park is a 925/950 acre [1] [2] park operated by the Somerset County Park Commission and located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and separated from the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge by the Passaic River. The park displays a diverse ecosystem in floodplains of the upper Passaic River and its contributors and contains swamps ...
The Great Swamp Watershed Association, founded in 1981, works to protect the entire 55-square-mile (140 km 2) watershed that surrounds the swamp. [12] Within the Great Swamp there also is a nonprofit bird-rehabilitation center founded in 1977, called The Raptor Trust , mainly specializing in birds of prey , such as eagles , hawks , and owls .
This category is for school buildings which were completed in the decade 1980s. 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; ... School buildings ...
Basking Ridge was originally settled in the 1720s by British Presbyterians escaping religious persecution. The land was bought from the Lenape Native Americans. [12]Bernards Township was officially chartered on May 21, 1760, granted by King George II and granted to Sir Francis Bernard, first governor of the noted section which includes Basking Ridge.
Working through the Nature Conservancy, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acquired the mansion and 1,430 acres of land in 1973. The environmental education center opened in 1977 and the training center opened in 1980. In 1991, the training center was renamed in honor of William C. Forrey, retiring director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of State ...
The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills is based at the Brick Academy, which is the nickname for a Federal-style brick building built in 1809 to meet the growing needs of the Basking Ridge Classical School located in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township. It is the oldest standing school in the area and existed prior to 1799, at ...
The Pingry School is a coeducational, independent, college preparatory country day school in New Jersey, with a Lower School (K–5) campus in the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, a Middle (6–8) and Upper School (9–12) campus in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, and a campus for experiential learning in Pottersville.