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Princeton, N.J.— D&R Greenway Land Trust, project partners and other community groups invite the public to a meeting to provide input for a proposed bicycle and pedestrian trail in Trenton. The proposed trail will link up the main D&R Canal State Park path near Trenton's Battle Monument, to the fragmented section in Hamilton Township. The trail will wind through Trenton's streets and onto the canal path, linking up to the Delaware River Heritage Trail and East Coast Greenway. The meeting will be held Tuesday, October 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Trenton > Read More

Princeton, N.J.—Growing up in the Trenton area, Elizet Moralez-Perez was not especially connected to nature. “I never took the time to explore the outdoors,” she recounts. “I thought city life could only offer city things. How much I was missing out on—trails, parks and so much more.” All that changed when she served as a Delaware River Watershed Fellow at the Tulpehaking Nature Center of the Abbott Marshlands this summer. She will continue in this role through the coming fall. > Read More

Princeton, N.J.— D&R Greenway Land Trust announces the preservation of the 54-acre Kulley-Higgins-Parisi farm in Franklin Township, Somerset County. Located between Old Georgetown Road and Route 518, the farm was acquired as open space by Franklin Township. D&R Greenway facilitated the acquisition, working hand-in-hand with the owners and the Township to craft legal and financial arrangements to achieve everyone’s goals. Preserving the site was a high priority because this historic farm connects protected expanses east of the D&R Canal. “Linking > Read More

Princeton, N.J.— The Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail begins behind D&R Greenway Land Trust’s Johnson Education Center, winding up through an allee of sycamore and chestnut trees. Walk out past poems of Emily Dickenson, Rumi, Walt Whitman and others, up a hill blooming with aster, thistle and milkweed, to a place where the birds and insects sing a salute to the season. There are benches from which to contemplate Mary Oliver’s question: “Who made the world?” The ground is > Read More

Trenton, N.J.— D&R Greenway, the Cadwalader Park Alliance and the City of Trenton are pleased to announce the opening of the Cadwalader Park Natural Area in Trenton, where bees, birds and butterflies are among the visitors enjoying the healthy restoration project. “This event celebrates the culmination of seven years of work, from getting funding to designing and planting, managing meadow establishment and installing trails,” says D&R Greenway Vice-President Jay Watson. “With volunteers from the Isles YouthBuild program, TerraCycle, Mercer County > Read More

The slogan “Run Phyllis” took Phyllis Marchand through 22 years of elected office, including 14 as Princeton Township Mayor. An open space enthusiast who partnered with D&R Greenway as Mayor to preserve Greenway Meadows, Phyllis is still running to ensure that we protect as much open space as we can before it disappears. Shortly after leaving office in 2009, Phyllis was invited to join the Board of Trustees of D&R Greenway Land Trust. This spring, Marchand, who served as Vice-Chair, > Read More

D&R Greenway Land Trust mourns the loss of Chairman of the Board of Trustees Brian Breuel, who died in late May. “He was an enthusiastic, committed leader who cared deeply about the mission of preserving land,” says D&R Greenway Land Trust President and CEO Linda Mead. His wife Shirley speaks of his pride in the legacy of D&R Greenway: “While driving around the area, Brian would proudly point out properties that D&R Greenway had preserved. He loved being involved with > Read More

This September, D&R Greenway will join with Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey to premiere a new exhibition called Rare Wildlife Revealed: The James Fiorentino Traveling Art Exhibition. The realistic paintings by James Fiorentino depict some of the state’s most endangered and vulnerable species. During the premiere exhibit through October, sales of the original paintings, limited edition digital prints and a book with a forward by former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, as well as wildlife merchandise, will benefit D&R Greenway > Read More