Contact:

FRED FEINER, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
PHONE: 908-234-1225, EXT. 104
FRED@NJCONSERVATION.ORG

Full Moon Walk Scheduled for April 30

FAR HILLS, NJ, April 16, 2007 – Discover night time secrets during New Jersey Conservation Foundation’s (NJCF) Full Moon Walk on Monday, April 30 at 6:45 p.m. The two-hour program will start at Bamboo Brook Outdoor Recreation Center, 170 Longview Road, Far Hills.

Participants should bring binoculars and flashlights, although they will be encouraged to use the moon light as their guide.

The walk will start just before sunset and continue through nightfall. Attendees will learn to use their other senses, because they won’t be able to rely on their eyes so much. The goal is to make people less afraid of the forest at night. Hikers will learn to use moonlight to navigate their way. Flashlights will be used when there is something specific to see.

Attendees will listen for birds, call for owls and look for mammals and will learn how to hike quietly and improve upon perception without relying on vision. Everyone has great fun overcoming their fear of darkness and finding creatures of the night.

Bamboo Brook is a 100-acre Morris County park known originally as Merchiston Farm, the former home of William and Martha Brookes Hutcheson, which includes fields, woodlands and a formal garden designed by Mrs. Hutcheson, one of the first women to be trained as a landscape architect in the United States.

The program is free, but pre-registration is required. For more information, please contact Lauren Ramos at 1-888-LAND-SAVE (1-888-526-3728) or Lauren@njconservation.org.

Since 1960, NJCF has preserved over 100,000 acres of land from the New Jersey Highlands to the Delaware Bayshore, permanently protecting forests, farmland and natural resources, all vital to New Jersey’s future. For more information on volunteer opportunities or saving New Jersey’s precious natural areas and natural resources, contact the New Jersey Conservation Foundation at 1-888-LAND-SAVE (1-888-526-3728) or visit our website at www.njconservation.org.