The Jackson Pathfinders in cooperation with the Jackson Environmental Commission have been awarded an Open Space Stewardship Funding grant from Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC) in the amount of $1300 for an environmental awareness project at the Purple Heart trail.
The project includes constructing an informational kiosk at a midway point along the Purple Heart trail and a self-guided digital nature walk (interpretive trail) having numerous informational signs along the way to educate the public on local natural resources. In addition to the informational signs themselves, there will be QR codes that you can scan using your mobile device to immediately obtain more details online for the given subject. Links are expected to be hosted on the Pathfinders website.
The project is expected to be completed by Summer 2017. As always we welcome any volunteers to assist with the project. As an example, Ocean County Vocational Technical School in Brick is graciously constructing the kiosk off-site for us.