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Web site: http://newjersey.sierraclub.org/Essex/ We are also accessible from the NJ
Chapter web site.
OFFICERS:
- Essex Group Meetings:
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The Essex Group usually has regular meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at the
Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland, NJ. 621-B Eagle Rock Ave, Roseland, NJ
(973-228-8776)
Please confirm date and time before attending as meeting times can vary.
- Directions to the Environmental Center:
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Rt. 280 E or W to Exit 4A-
This will put you South on Eisenhower Parkway. Make a Right at the first light onto
Eagle Rock Ave. The Center is 1/2 mile on the left. There is a large parking lot on the right
across the street from the Center.
621-B Eagle Rock Ave, Roseland, NJ (973-228-8776)
Protect the Historic McClellan Old-Growth Forest and Arboretum!
The next Seton Hall Prep Old Growth Forest dates are:
Thursday Oct 29 8pm West Orange Town Hall 66 Main Street
Thurs Nov 5, same location.
West Orange NJ Historic Old-Growth Forest along with
1000 trees to be clear-cut for ballfields and parking
lots.
Protect the Historic McClellan Old-Growth Forest and
Arboretum in West Orange. Its on Prospect Ave.
Next Zoning Board Meeting: May 14th 8pm and May 28th 8pm. 66 Main Street.
West Orange, NJ 07052.
Instead of the cool breezes that flow naturally thru the majestic trees,
there will be idling diesel buses and up to 700 cars.
Trees that are taller than 99% of the trees in New Jersey will be replaced
with two hundred feet of 24 foot high fencing for baseball fields and 40
foot high metal bleachers.
In lieu of a flyway for the endangered Indiana Bat, Golden Eagles, Red Tail
Hawks, and Great Horned owls, they propose 50 foot tall netting to catch
baseballs.
Where now 50 foot tall mature trees are absorbing and holding storm water,
they plan to cut and replace with detention ditches and replant with 8 foot
pine trees.
Study the Landscape Improvements Master Plan.
Read Robert F. Kennedy's
letter (.pdf) to Seton Hall Headmaster, Msr. Michael Kelly.
Read the Saturday, June 23, 2007
Star-Ledger article .
"The ancient forest sits atop the first ridge of the Wat chung Mountains, where updrafts
create constant breezes that shush through the summer canopies of the towering trees......"
Read the November 2002
Old Growth Forest Survey report which discusses
the site in detail.
Subscribe to the Essex News List for updates on Essex Group
Events.
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