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: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02147-zEight scientists who appeared in Nature's Changemaker series are to feature in a forthcoming podcast series. Kendall Powell and Deborah Daley introduce them. more
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In the end, President Donald Trump’s giant tax and spending plan rocketed past both fiscal hawks and social moderates in the House with no changes on Thursday. The $4 trillion more
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Hands on with the new research at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition more
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Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02039-2An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus emerged in the human more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01979-zThe James Webb Space Telescope has detected molecular hydrogen in a nearby galaxy that has a very low proportion of metals. This implies that more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09209-2A method based on boron-mediated assembly is described for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted alkenes, molecules with four substituents around the central C=C bond, with more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02018-7Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09234-1During chronic but not acute inflammation, chromatin remodelling is influenced by nuclear autophagy through WSTF interaction with ATG8 in the nucleus, leading to WSTF more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01765-xMeasurements with confined photons challenge a prediction that particles that ‘quantum tunnel’ into infinitely long barriers will get stuck. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09102-yAn unconventional machine learning-based inverse design framework enables the generation of ultrabroadband and band-selective thermal meta-emitters with complex 3D architectures and diverse material compositions. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01940-0The Journal of Public Health in Africa faces a pivotal moment, and researchers say it must evolve to better serve the scientific community. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02095-8The Centaur model goes beyond single tasks and predicts a wide array of human behaviour. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02097-6Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large language models. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09216-3Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09221-6The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09204-7Escherichia coli uses curli fibres, oligomers of the functional amyloid CsgA, as a barrier to protect against the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Myxococcus more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02032-9International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09223-4A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02105-9Research gives specific advice for conversations about vaccine hesitancy. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09211-8A stereotaxic atlas of the whole mouse brain, based on a Nissl-stained cytoarchitecture dataset with isotropic 1-μm resolution, achieved through continuous micro-optical sectioning tomography, more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02119-3MethaneSAT, a satellite designed to detect sources of the most powerful greenhouse gas, has been lost 15 months into its 5-year mission. Plus, how more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09207-4Spatially segregated rRNA processing dictates nucleolar morphology and drives outward progression of pre-ribosomal RNA through nucleolar phases. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09099-4The study of the relationship between particle speed and negative kinetic energy, arising in regions in which, according to classical mechanics, particles are not more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02036-5The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09198-2A climate-trade-off risk curve derived from uncertainties in the radiative-forcing components indicates that focusing on reducing contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions is more effective more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02045-4A voyage of discovery. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09215-4A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09096-7The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network aims to create a reference catalogue of somatic mosaicism across different tissues and cells within individuals. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09142-4Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09219-0An analysis of data from the Sherlock-Lung study provides insight into the mutational processes that contribute to lung cancer in never smokers, and looks more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02028-5Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help? more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09195-5Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02049-0The periderm layers of plants form an outer protective barrier. If the periderm is broken, movement of the gases ethylene and oxygen triggers a more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02102-yForty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian. more
Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09196-4Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of more
We take a look at river, reservoir and groundwater levels after a particularly dry few months. more
We take a look at river, reservoir and groundwater levels after a particularly dry few months. more
Critics are calling it "the most anti-environmental bill of all time." more
Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb says community-based conservation organizations know best how to tackle the complex conservation challenges unique to their ecosystems. However, they’re also among the most underserved in terms of more
The blue crane, South Africa’s national bird, is now at greater risk of extinction, as a new regional assessment lists the species as “vulnerable.” “A Near-Threatened listing is no longer more
Experts say the most impactful decisions have enabled the Trump administration to gut the federal workforce and freeze funding. more
MARERENI, Kenya — The scorching afternoon sun stretches across the semiarid landscape of Marereni, in Kenya’s Kilifi county, where salt and sea shape both the land and the lives that more
KARACHI — From the sands of Manjhaar Beach on the far outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, an island is just visible 10 kilometers, about 6 miles, offshore. Mist rising from the more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them. The reports tell state and local governments and everyday more
Several proposals seeking greater protection of more than 70 shark and ray species from commercial trade were raised this week for deliberation at the 20th meeting of CITES, the global more
With net zero targets under attack from the populist right, dangerously high temperatures should refocus mindsAt times like now, with dangerously high temperatures in several European countries, the urgent need more
In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year. Each spring, they hatch from eggs in their breeding grounds in Australia’s southeast and more
The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their landsWhen the plane took off from Vancouver’s airport, bound north more
Under a new agreement, London will source enough solar power to run its light railway and tram networks entirely on renewable energy.Read more on E360 → more
Three leading female photographers – Gulshan Khan, Laura El-Tantawy and Lisl Ponger – explore the complex global entanglements of climate crisis, environmental justice and human survival Continue reading more
Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas icebergOne more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01716-6Place cells are neurons that encode spatial locations. Experiments in chickadees reveal that the cells activate even when those locations are viewed from a more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01939-7Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship. more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02076-xProtect Iran’s scientists from attacks more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02078-9Global pandemic agreement needs sustained pressure to succeed more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01895-2Lukewarm efforts to get Britain to save on the energy bill, and a mysterious string of house-fly deaths, in our weekly dip into Nature’s more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02079-8It should be free to apply to graduate school more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02077-wHuman space travel risks contaminating Mars more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09309-zAuthor Correction: Targeting the SHOC2–RAS interaction in RAS-mutant cancers more
Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09325-zArchitecture, dynamics and biogenesis of GluA3 AMPA glutamate receptors more
Our Mission
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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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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