Community Walk March 1, 2025 at 10AM

Unleash the Adventure this summer 2025- CAMP SOAR

We are thrilled to announce Camp SOAR is coming to the Demarest Nature Center!

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* Grades 1-3: August 4 – 8, 2025
  Theme: Nature Art 
 
* Grades 4-7: August 11 – 15, 2025
Theme: Feathered Friends 
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Community Trail Walk & Volunteer Day (Cleanup)

March 1, 2025
10:00 AM

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Birdhouse Building & Community Trail Walk

April 5, 2025
10:00 AM

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The Demarest Nature Center Association

 “We don’t stop hiking because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop hiking.

~Finis Mitchell

Keep an eye out for this magnificent tree
that is often overlooked but full of beauty and utility

~ Jeff Shaari

 “We don’t stop hiking because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop hiking.

~Finis Mitchell

Welcome To The Demarest Nature Center

The Demarest Nature Center is located in Demarest, NJ, USA, and is open to all persons, residents and non-residents alike, every day of the year. In addition to preserving and protecting important open space here in the midst of a large metropolitan area, the center seeks to educate young and old alike as to the beauty of nature and the importance of protecting our environment.

We, the trustees of the Demarest Nature Center Association, encourage you to use this site to find out more about the Demarest Nature Center and its programs. Click on the topic of your choice and find out more. The links will tell you about the Center, introduce you to our events and endeavors, and also take you to other nearby nature centers, as well as environmental organizations, National Parks, and suggestions for things to do. The site is constantly growing and being updated, so we hope you will come back again and again.

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Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08502-wChildren who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08504-8HYPOMAP integrates single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomic data to create a comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus. more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08380-2By etching cavities into a thin lubricant spacer and encapsulating it with functional flakes, electric and mechanical switching of single-crystal, van der Waals stacking more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00335-5Electronic health records and tumour-genome profiling offer promising real-world data with which to model cancer outcomes. Models built by using artificial intelligence (AI) to more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00292-zSearch engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do. more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00373-zStudying crowd dynamics could inform strategies that help to prevent dense gatherings from becoming dangerous. more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00382-yMillennia-old genomes suggest Indo–European tongues originated from the Caucasus mountain region. more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08353-5A programmable quantum simulator based on Rydberg atom arrays is used to study the collective dynamics of a quantum phase transition and observe the more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5Ancient DNA reveals how the explosive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists began with a small community north of the Black Sea speaking ancestral Indo-European, more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08500-yViral sequencing reveals subclinical infections in animals challenged with simian immunodeficiency virus even in the presence of potent neutralizing antibodies, with implications for clinical more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08437-2Combining Indigenous insights with neuroscience methods through Two-Eyed Seeing can broaden the understanding of brain function and mental wellbeing by merging reductionist and holistic more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00384-wScientists studying the controversial 'running of the bulls' discover unique crowd movements they hope could prevent overcrowding deaths more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08385-xA millihertz frequency X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation has been observed near the innermost orbit of an actively accreting supermassive black hole and its frequency has more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08387-9A multilayer-stacked two-dimensional polyaniline crystal shows high electrical conductivity and unique out-of-plane metallic transport behaviour, indicating potential for strong electronic coupling beyond in-plane interactions more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00311-zDo mathematical skills that children acquire in the classroom transfer to real-world settings — and vice versa? Evidence from five large groups of children more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00294-xA fossil found in South Africa 100 years ago provides insights into the emergence of a crucial — and unusual — life stage. more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08514-6Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00308-8In a phase I clinical trial, nine adults with kidney cancer were treated with a personalized cancer vaccine that targets neoantigens (mutant proteins expressed more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08444-3Measurements of the superfluid stiffness in twisted trilayer graphene reveal unconventional nodal-gap superconductivity, where the superconducting transition is controlled by phase fluctuations rather than more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08398-6PELO–HBS1L and SKI complexes in the human mRNA quality control pathway exhibit a synthetic lethal interaction and may represent novel targets for the development more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00381-zResearch also shows that skills don’t transfer in the other direction either — plus, a new study of crowd movements could help prevent tragedy. more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08507-5A phase I trial of a neoantigen-targeting personalized cancer vaccine led to durable and polyfunctional T cell responses and antitumour recognition, and was associated more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00057-8A superconducting state can be induced in a twisted carbon-based material, but it can’t be described with conventional theory. A technique using high-frequency circuits more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08506-6Experiments in infected mice and tissue-mimicking chemostats show that resilience of Salmonella against antimicrobial compounds is largely a result of starvation-induced general resilience rather more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08429-2A state-level analysis of the impact of enhanced weathering deployment on carbon sequestration on agricultural land suggests that enhanced weathering could help the USA more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08547-xThis study uncovers a highly conserved jumbo phage protein, Imp1, that possesses multiple interfaces to license protein import into a proteinaceous nucleus-like compartment, using more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08511-9Two distinct patterns in the protective effect of natural infection against reinfection in the Omicron variant versus pre-Omicron eras show that SARS-CoV-2 immune protection more

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08501-xOchre, a strain of Escherichia coli engineered to have a single stop codon, enables reassignment of four codons for non-degenerate functions, such as incorporation more

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Our Mission

Demarest Nature Center - Duffy Bridge

According to the 1972 articles of Incorporation, the purposes of the organization are:

  • To acquire or lease undeveloped lands and establish thereon educational building(s).
  • To develop natural history and conservation education programs in cooperation with schools, colleges, hospitals, youth groups and other organizations which will develop an understanding and appreciation of natural resources.
  • To cooperate with national, state, county, municipal and private natural resource agencies in providing an outdoor laboratory in which to demonstrate natural resource problems and management techniques.

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What We Sponsor

The DNC sponsors numerous programs to bring residents of Demarest and the surrounding areas into closer contact with wildlife and the natural world. Programs have varied, including lectures on native plants, family hikes, maple syrup making, bird watching & counts, birdhouse building, mushroom foraging walk, community trail walk and children’s scavenger hunts.  Local outdoor activities have been held at the Nature Center, Wakelee Field, various school grounds, and at the Duck Pond.

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Demarest Nature Center
Box 41
Demarest, NJ 07627

Location

90 Park St, Demarest, NJ 07627

Trail Map

You can download a Trail Map here.

Become a Member

Since its incorporation in 1977 the Demarest Nature Center Association has cared for a 55-acre parcel of land bordered by Columbus Road on the west and County Road on the east. The Demarest Nature Center is open to all every day of the year. In addition to protecting woods, vernal ponds, meadows, and a section of the Tenakill Brook, as well as establishing and maintaining walking trails, the center provides educational events for everyone about the beauty of nature and the importance of preserving our amazing forest habitat. Your membership dollars go towards sponsorship of environmental education programs for kindergarten through the fourth grade in the Demarest schools, and a yearly scholarship given to a local high school senior who plans to pursue environment-related studies in college. Your membership also helps support our birdhouse/bird feeder building program, our annual photo contest, maple syrup making, environmental scholarships, monthly community trail walks and the Craft Show at Oktoberfest/Fall Festival Event.

The Demarest Nature Center Association is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, run solely by volunteers and receives no funding from the Borough of Demarest.

Residents of Demarest receive all DNC mailings as postal patrons. Non-resident members receive DNC mailings by 1st class mail.

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