Week-long day camp programs for children ages 4 to 15.
Plus, overnight camps for middle school students.
Our camp programs encourage and inspire kids to keep learning, even though
it's summer! Kids have fun hiking through the fields and forests as they
look for interesting plants and animals and splashing in the Passaic River as
they search for salamanders and other river-dwelling creatures.
Click Here to download the
Camp Brochure in PDF format (legal size paper).
For more information about these camp programs, call (908) 766-5787, or email Mike Anderson.
If you wish to join NEW JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY, you may register for camps
using the members’ cost.
| 2008 Summer Day Camp Programs |
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Mourning Cloaks (one of the few
butterflies that over winter as adults)
For children age four or entering Kindergarten.
June 23 to 27. 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
This camp builds on imagination fostered by award winning
nature stories. Activities and crafts create a connection to
the environment.
(Same as Pewee’s, but different stories) Limit 14.
Cost: $120 members $170 nonmembers |
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Pewees (a small dark flycatcher that nests at the
sanctuary and winters in South America)
For children age four or entering Kindergarten.
June 23 to 27. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
This camp builds on imagination fostered by award winning nature
stories. Activities and crafts create a connection to the
environment. (Same as Mourning Cloaks, but different stories)
Limit 14
Cost: $120 members $170 nonmembers |
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Monarchs (migrate to Mexico, host plant is milkweed)
For children entering grades one and two.
July 7 to 11. 9:00 a.m. to Noon
This session follows the story telling format of the
Pewees/Mourning Cloaks and focuses more on individual discovery.
Limit 14, (same as Hummingbirds, different stories)
Cost: $120 members $170 nonmembers |
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Hummingbirds (Ruby-throated: the only species of
hummingbird that nests in the east)
For children entering grades one and two.
July 7 to 11. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
This session follows the story telling format of the Peewees and
focuses more on individual discovery. (This is the afternoon
session of the Monarchs) Limit 14
Cost: $120 members $170 nonmembers |
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Ovenbirds (builds a beehive-oven shaped nest out of grass
on the forest floor)
For children entering grades three and four.
July 28 to August 1. 9:00 to 4:00
Daily rambles to explore the field, forest and river to
cultivate the sense of wonder through group discovery. Featuring
activities to make learning fun. Limit 14
Cost: $170 members $200 nonmembers |
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Kingfishers (plunges into the water to catch fish. builds
a nest in a tunnel underground)
For young naturalists entering grades five and six.
July 21 to 25. 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
Kingfishers will explore and discover with a little more
emphasis on classification and identification. Morning hikes
will be in the forest. Afternoon hikes along the Passaic River.
Limit 12
Cost: $170 members $200 nonmembers |
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Sanctuary Stewards
For middle school students with more than a casual interest in
Natural History.
July 14 to 18. 9:00a.m. to 4:p.m.
Daily hikes will monitor the reptile and amphibian populations
here on the sanctuary and
survey the deer exclosure flora and fauna. Heavy emphasis will
be on field identification, field ecology and quantifying the
presence, absence and distribution of plants and animals here at
the sanctuary. (There will be an optional evening session for
nocturnal species.) Limit 12
Cost: $160 members $190 nonmembers |
| 2008 Summer Overnight Camp
Programs |
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ISLAND EXPLORERS: I and II
For young people entering grades 6, 7 and 8.
Session I: Monday, June 23, 2:00 P.M. to Friday June 27.
Session II: Sunday, June 29, 2:00 P.M. to Thursday July 3.
Explore the natural history of a barrier island on the Jersey shore. This week
long residential camp will take place at Sedge Island Natural Resource Education
Center, located within NJ's first Marine Conservation Zone, in Barnegat Bay.
Marine ecology, coastal birding, kayaking, meals, lodging, and memories to last
a lifetime provided. Limit 12 participants.
Click Here for pictures
from previous years.
Cost: $625 members $655 nonmembers |
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RIDGE WALKERS
For young people entering grades 6, 7 and 8.
Sunday July 13 to Friday July 18
We’ll stay in cabins at the Appalachian Mountain Clubs Mohican
Outdoor Center which is located in the Delaware River National
Recreation Area, on top of Kittatinny Ridge on the Appalachian
Trail. Itinerary includes: dawn bird walks picking blueberries
for breakfast and daily trips to destinations in the Ridge and
Valley Province, stream hikes, wetlands, ridge top lakes,
Delaware River floodplain, waterfalls and canoeing and kayaking
on Catfish Pond. The program also includes programs by NJ Fish
and Wildlife, NJ Forest Fire Service, the National Park
Service. Meals, lodging, van transportation and memories to
last a lifetime.
Cost $625 members $ $655 nonmembers |
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