May include one or more of the following projects:
Leaf Cleanup: This project involves raking, collecting, and moving fallen leaves around the refuge. It is critical in maintaining walkways, recreational areas, and around our animal enclosures. This project improves aesthetics, and safety for our visitors, as well as the animals in our care. This project is critically needed.
Brush and Branch Cleanup: This project involves collecting and moving excess fallen brush and branches around the refuge. It is important for the same reasons as leaf cleanup. There are areas where recent tree work was done, and this cleanup is critically needed.
Trail Maintenance: This project involves using pruning tools to trim plant material on overgrown trails. This project is important in maintaining the size and function of the trails.
Reblaze Trail Color Marking: This project involves using paint to mark existing trail markers that have become faded. This improved the navigability of our trails.
Paint Releasable Enclosures: This project involves painting our animal enclosures that are unpainted, or in need of fresh paint. This improves the appearance, and also protects the wooden structures.
Removing Introduced White Pine: This project involves using tools to cut down small/emergent introduced white pine trees. They have overtaken certain areas, and are a potential hazard due to their tendency to fall over when mature. This is important for promoting more native species to grow.
You will meet at the Nature Center Building (4 Sawmill Road, Medford, NJ 08055). It is the red colored building surrounded by the picnic/play areas. Some GPS directions do not precisely have their entrance pinpointed so please look for the Nature Center signs.
*you may bring your own materials (ex. gloves)
