We've saved 30,000 acres. What happens in 2026?

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re celebrating the preservation of our 30,000th acre and reflecting on how closely our human fates are entwined with the natural world around us. For 44 years, The Land Conservancy of New Jersey has been building wildlife corridors in the Delaware River watershed, restoring habitat in and around the West Brook, uplifting indigenous land stewards at Split Rock Mountain, and building community at South Branch Preserve. These individual wins add up to something truly remarkable. We’re grateful to be part of a supportive movement that understands taking care of the environment is essential for all of our survival.

Our members play a crucial role in these accomplishments. You too can have a meaningful impact on the sustainability of New Jersey’s precious land and water by making a year-end donation today.

Your gift will help ensure that we are able to complete important work that’s currently in progress. Read on to discover how these projects fit into the comprehensive conservation efforts happening in our state.

Building Bobcat Alley

The Land Conservancy is stitching together a wildlife corridor and greenway in western Warren County to connect vast public lands in the Highlands with the Kittatinny Ridge so that large mammals like bobcats can continue to roam and flourish in substantial, undisturbed passageways. Over the past 15 years, we have preserved more than 1,400 acres in this area, known as Bobcat Alley.

We are now working to preserve 104 acres in Hardwick, adjacent to Spring Valley Preserve. Your donation will help keep this landscape-wide project moving forward to protect an important piece of the Delaware River watershed and its critical wildlife habitat.

Connecting Wildcat Ridge to the West Morris Greenway

TLCNJ lobbied for the state to establish Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area in 1999 and has since acquired and transferred 9 parcels totaling 1048 acres to expand this remarkable area. Its large, unfragmented forests allow large populations of endangered hawks, owls, and increasingly rare songbirds to thrive. They are also important to the millions of people whose drinking water comes from the clean lakes and streams of the Highlands.

We are now working to preserve a 123-acre property that is the missing link between Wildcat Ridge and the West Morris Greenway–a planned 25-mile rail trail that will connect Rockaway to Washington Township. 

You can help us complete these important projects

and more by becoming a member today.

Learn about donation options via your RMD, DAF, and more by clicking here. And remember that tax benefits on gifts are changing in 2026. Maximize your deductions by donating before December 31.

We are deeply grateful for your contributions to keeping our great state healthy and beautiful!