The New Jersey Audubon Society (NJAS) is a privately supported, not-for profit, statewide membership organization. Founded in 1897, and one of the oldest independent Audubon societies, NJAS has no connection with the National Audubon Society.

The New Jersey Audubon Society fosters environmental awareness and a conservation ethic among New Jersey's citizens; protects New Jersey's birds, mammals, other animals, and plants, especially endangered and threatened species; and promotes preservation of New Jersey's valuable natural habitats.

Description:
In order to achieve its purpose, New Jersey Audubon, through its Board of Directors, professional staff, members, and volunteers, endeavors to:

Develop, encourage, and support sound conservation practices, programs, and legislation.

Disseminate information on the natural environment through education programs, information services, and publications.

Advance knowledge of New Jersey's flora and fauna, and their relationships to the habitats on which they depend, through field research.

Acquire, establish, and maintain wildlife sanctuaries and educational centers.

New Jersey Audubon maintains stewardship of 34 sanctuaries and conducts its programs through ten staffed facilities.

History:
The Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, located in Bernardsville, Basking Ridge, and Harding Township, NJ, has its beginnings in the 1965 donation of 125 acres by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Scherman to the New Jersey Audubon Society. Later, in 1973 and 1975, Mr. G. Frederick Hoffman donated parcels of land. The Hoffman estate house and caretaker's house were added to the Sanctuary in 1981, at the time of Mr. Hoffman's death. This completed what is now the Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, 276 acres of woodland, field, and floodplain habitat supporting over 200 species of wildlife over the course of a year.

Contact people:

Denis Cleary, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Mike Anderson, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

11 Hardscrabble Rd. Bernardsville, NJ 07924 (See a map)

Directions:

From Route 287 North or South, take Exit 30B. From the exit ramp, bear right and go a short distance to the light by the Old Mill Inn, at the Intersection of Route 202. Proceed straight ahead through the light. . . (more)