With DEP’s help, school will reopen for limited programming as it works to reopen permanently
The New Jersey School of Conservation, located on a remote tract in Stokes State Forest where teachers and students came together to learn about environmental stewardship, will open once again, possibly as soon as next month.
The school — a respected, but not widely known, institution — closed abruptly last year after seven decades, a victim of long-running fiscal problems as well as concerns over the pandemic caused by COVID-19.
The Friends of the New Jersey School of Conservation (NJSOC), however, finalized a temporary access agreement with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection allowing the not-for-profit organization to reopen the school for limited programming in May on a portion of its 240 acres.