The New Jersey Highlands Coalition represents a diverse network of organizations — small and large, local, regional, statewide and national — and individuals. Our mission is to represent their common goal to protect, enhance and restore the New Jersey Highlands and to preserve the quality and quantity of drinking water both for the 850,000 people in the Highlands as well as the more than four million people in surrounding areas who depend on Highlands water.

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Results of the Highlands Water Challenge
Earth Day Event, Lewis Morris County Park, Saturday, April 28, 2012

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Video recording of the firing of
Highlands Council Executive Director Eileen Swan

Statement by Julia Somers read during public comments at
New Jersey Highlands Council discussion on resolution
to fire Council Executive Director Eileen Swan

GOVERNOR CHRISTIE BULLIIES HIGHLANDS COUNCIL INTO FIRING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NJ Highlands Coalition and NJ Conservation Foundation jointly filed comments on the Picatinny Arsenal draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FNSI) on the proposal to construct and operate an underground explosives test chamber (SAFER)

NJ Highlands Coalition/NJ Conservation Foundation joint press release on deficiencies of Picatinny Arsenal draft Environmental Assessment

Governors Byrne, Kean, Florio and Whitman's joint Star Ledger OpEd on the importance of Highlands and Pinelands regional planning in protecting the State's water supplies

August 2011 NJ Superior Court Appellate Division affirming Highlands policies and programs on 5 appeals

Map of the 244 municipalities in 16 counties that consume Highlands water and the extent that they depend on Highlands water supplies

2011 Small Grants Awardees

Governor, You are Misinformed!
Watch the video!

Rowan University/Rutgers report, "Changing Landscapes in the Garden State: Urban Growth and Open Space Loss in NJ 1986 thru 2007"

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New Jersey Highlands Coalition
508 Main Street
Boonton, NJ 07005
973.588.7190