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Lawmakers approved a bill last Wednesday to hand management of the School of Conservation to a nonprofit run by the school’s longtime supporters.
Montclair State University has pulled its proposal to manage the New Jersey School of Conservation at Stokes State Forest.
Montclair State University has pulled its proposal to manage the New Jersey School of Conservation at Stokes State Forest.
The school shut down during the pandemic and a nonprofit stepped in to temporarily reopen it.
With DEP’s help, school will reopen for limited programming as it works to reopen permanently The New Jersey School of Conservation, located on a remote tract in Stokes State Forest where teachers and students came together to learn about environmental stewardship, will open once again, possibly as soon as next month. The school — a respected, but not widely known, institution — closed abruptly last year after seven decades, a victim of long-running fiscal problems as well as concerns over the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The Friends of the New Jersey School of Conservation (NJSOC), how...