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Save the Environment of Moorestown was founded in 1972 as a grassroots
organization with a mission to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural environment of Moorestown, New Jersey, for today and for future generations. STEM’s work over the years to address local environmental issues such as water and air pollution, solid waste disposal, & recycling also includes helping to preserve and protect Moorestown’s open spaces. Our Natural Area Care program helps to maintain these sites on an ongoing basis. We are always looking for new members. |
Register For STEM's Open Space Tour
Tour is Sunday, October 15th from 11:45am to 2:00pm
Please join Save the Environment of Moorestown (STEM) and the Moorestown Department of Parks and Recreation as we visit three of Moorestown’s premier open spaces on Sunday, October 15th. (Don’t worry, the Eagles don’t play until 4:25)
We’ll gather at 11:45 at the Parks and Recreation building across from the library where we’ll board a bus for our first stop at Esther Yanai Preserve. We’ll walk the trail loop, show casing the flora and fauna of this open space, along with the multiple trail improvements that have happened over the last couple of years. Perhaps we’ll be lucky and sight a Pileated woodpecker, which are regularly seen in this preserve.
From Esther Yanai we’ll head over to Swede Run Fields to tour the award-winning native pollinator garden and discuss the project to convert the big field across Westfield Road into a 75-acre native grassland and pollinator field. We’ll also enjoy refreshments at this site.
We’ll finish the tour at the South Valley Woods preserve. This preserve has some of the most unique flora found in any of Moorestown’s open space. We’ll walk the yellow trail, which loops around a portion of the preserve.
If you can’t take the whole tour, you are welcome to visit any of the sites between 12 and 2, where we’ll have a STEM volunteer available to guide you on your way.
If you’d like to participate in a guided walk at any of the sites, here is the day’s schedule:
11:45 am – Bus departs from Parks and Recreation parking lot across from the library.
12:00 to 12:35 pm - Tour Esther Yanai Preserve
12:40 to 1:15 pm - Refreshments and tour of Native Pollinator Garden at Swede Run Fields
1:20 to 2:00 pm – Tour South Valley Woods and return to Parks and Recreation Parking Lot.
Space on the bus will be limited, so please sign up under the 'Free Programs & Events' on the Moorestown Parks and Recreation Website to guarantee a seat. You'll need to create a Parks and Recreation account to register.
PARKS & REC WEBSITE
We’ll gather at 11:45 at the Parks and Recreation building across from the library where we’ll board a bus for our first stop at Esther Yanai Preserve. We’ll walk the trail loop, show casing the flora and fauna of this open space, along with the multiple trail improvements that have happened over the last couple of years. Perhaps we’ll be lucky and sight a Pileated woodpecker, which are regularly seen in this preserve.
From Esther Yanai we’ll head over to Swede Run Fields to tour the award-winning native pollinator garden and discuss the project to convert the big field across Westfield Road into a 75-acre native grassland and pollinator field. We’ll also enjoy refreshments at this site.
We’ll finish the tour at the South Valley Woods preserve. This preserve has some of the most unique flora found in any of Moorestown’s open space. We’ll walk the yellow trail, which loops around a portion of the preserve.
If you can’t take the whole tour, you are welcome to visit any of the sites between 12 and 2, where we’ll have a STEM volunteer available to guide you on your way.
If you’d like to participate in a guided walk at any of the sites, here is the day’s schedule:
11:45 am – Bus departs from Parks and Recreation parking lot across from the library.
12:00 to 12:35 pm - Tour Esther Yanai Preserve
12:40 to 1:15 pm - Refreshments and tour of Native Pollinator Garden at Swede Run Fields
1:20 to 2:00 pm – Tour South Valley Woods and return to Parks and Recreation Parking Lot.
Space on the bus will be limited, so please sign up under the 'Free Programs & Events' on the Moorestown Parks and Recreation Website to guarantee a seat. You'll need to create a Parks and Recreation account to register.
PARKS & REC WEBSITE
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