The New Jersey School of Conservation in Stokes State Forest has educated more than 400,000 teachers and students since 1949.The New Jersey School of Conservation in Stokes State Forest has educated more than 400,000 teachers and students since 1949.in New Jersey, about a half-dozen children are setting up insect traps, using vanilla cookies and tuna to see what six-legged creatures they snag.
announced they were closing it rather abruptly and without really any warning. It took everyone by surprise.During the pandemic, the school’s management shuttered the campus due to budget constraints until a nonprofit group temporarily reopened it. Now state officials are deciding the school’s fate — and who will run it.
Montclair State University handed the keys back to the state Department of Environmental Protection . “This is our attempt to keep offering programs that we would historically have offered, but in a kind of cliff notes approach,” Pflugh said, adding that she hopes the group gets permanent management. “Sort of the mantra of the school conservation has always been discovery through field study, we are a big proponent of experiential learning.”