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We
need your Support!
Join
Great Swamp Watershed Association Today!
Your
support is critical to our success!
GSWA
Membership
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Type
of Membership |
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$1,000
or Greater
$250
$100
$50
$35
$25 |
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Steward
Benefactor
Patron
Supporting
Member
Senior Citizen |
Please
make your check payable to: Great Swamp Watershed
Association, P.O. Box 300, New Vernon, NJ 07976.
Your
membership buys you our quarterly newsletter filled with
Great Swamp watershed issues, local issues, and more.
You'll be invited to the annual meeting (rub elbows with
environmental greats) and special events. Get your
feet wet -- join today!
To submit your membership
on-line, click
here. Or if you prefer to mail us a check,
click here for
a printable version of the membership form.
Donations
are tax deductible as allowed by law and are used to
work for the preservation of wetlands and open space in
the Great Swamp watershed.
To make a donation on-line, click here.
Why
Great Swamp Watershed Association warrants your support
Great Swamp
Watershed Association (GSWA) was established in 1981 to support environmental awareness of, and encourage good management policies and practices in, the 12,000 acres of exceptional public lands within the Great Swamp watershed. (A watershed is a contiguous area of land within which all rainfall and stormwater runoff are collected in local streams and rivers and flow to a common location. In Great Swamp watershed, an area of 55 square miles, five streams — Black Brook, Great Brook, Loantaka Brook, the upper Passaic River and Primrose Brook — all converge in the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and exit through Millington Gorge as the Passaic River, source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents.)
The public lands of the watershed include:
- the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness Area;
- the Morristown National Historical Park;
- over 2,000 acres of public parks managed by Morris and Somerset counties; and
- several hundred acres of additional conserved lands.
Clean water is the life-blood of Great Swamp. From its inception, GSWA has encouraged well-coordinated, watershed-wide approaches to water-quality enhancement, open-space preservation and educational outreach. Today, with about 2,500 members, we work closely with a wide variety of federal, state, county, municipal and other agencies and organizations to help preserve, enhance and expand the public lands within the Great Swamp watershed.
GSWA is a private, voluntary organization, tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. As such, we rely on contributions from individual members, corporations, private foundations and government agencies to support its programs and projects. Our annual budget is about $400,000. For a copy of our current annual report, click here.
There are many ways
you can help.
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