the gray cup
golf invitational
The Annual Gray Cup Invitational Golf Classic named in honor of Gray Rogers, who served for 10 years on our board of trustees, including three years as chairman. Under his leadership, we grew from a regional land trust to a state leader in open space preservation, culminating in the name change from Morris Land Conservancy to The Land Conservancy of New Jersey in 2008. Gray was a founder of the investment management firm W.P. Stewart & Co., and he has always had a passion for the outdoors and the natural world. Gray and his wife Mollie, a retired teacher, established our Rogers Family Scholarship in 2005 to provide scholarships to college students from New Jersey pursuing careers in an environmental field. Since then, 21 of these scholarships have been awarded, for a total of $160,000.
We are grateful to everyone who joined us in 2025 for a day of golfing on a world-class course to raise money to support our work. 80 intrepid golfers braved a cool, misty day out on the links, and 120 friends gathered afterwards for dinner, drinks, and a wonderful evening of conservation and community.
Most importantly, this event raised $170,000 to support our conservation work, including $117,000 to help purchase 123 acres in Rockaway Township that will connect Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area to the West Morris Greenway–a planned 25-mile rail trail that will connect Rockaway Township in the north to Washington Township in the south. TLCNJ helped establish Wildcat Ridge Hawkwatch in 2005 to preserve populations of endangered hawks, owls, and increasingly rare songbirds, and 20 years later we're still hard at work here.
