Mission of the Demarest Nature Center

Our Purposes and Goals

According to the 1972 articles of Incorporation, the purposes of the organization are:

1. To acquire or lease undeveloped lands and establish thereon educational building(s).
2. To develop natural history and conservation education programs in cooperation with schools, colleges, hospitals, youth groups and other organizations which will develop an understanding and appreciation of our natural resources.
3. To cooperate with national, state, county, municipal and private natural resource agencies in providing an outdoor laboratory in which to demonstrate natural resource problems and management techniques.
4. To provide opportunities to individuals and families in the pursuit of hobbies or more serious interests in our natural resources.
5. To provide trails and facilities so that individuals and family groups may visit the center for the recreation and enjoyment of being in the outdoors.

*** Your membership dollars allow us to continue to give back to the community and preserve and protect the Demarest Nature Center's 55 acres of meadows, forests and wetlands. ***