The Nature Conservancy hosts nature talks Thursday, October 27 at The Kay Environmental Center in Chester

“Elizabeth Donnell Kay, A Retrospective” at Noon
“New Jersey’s Migratory Birds” at 7 p.m.

CHESTER, NJ—October 13, 2005—The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey will host two informative nature talks on Thursday, October 27 at The Kay Environmental Center, its headquarters in Chester. A.J. Avellino will host a talk on Elizabeth Donnell Kay at noon while Bob Allen, director of conservation science for the Conservancy’s New Jersey Chapter, will speak on our state’s bird migration, including southern New Jersey’s role as one of the Earth’s most important migratory stopover sites.

Mrs. Kay, a long-time resident of Chester, New Jersey, was the former owner of the property now known as the Elizabeth D. Kay Environmental Center. Learn about her experimental gardens, botanical research and writings, and her successful international dried herb company. Find out many interesting details of her projects as she followed her vision for local conservation and education. Bring a bag lunch, if you wish.

Learn about the fall migration in New Jersey, and discover why birds migrate, how they navigate, when they migrate, where they go, how many species migrate, what time of day they migrate, how high they fly, and about different kinds of migration. Find out how people can help the migrating birds and why New Jersey is so important to them.

This program is being hosted by The Nature Conservancy, and is free and open to the public. For registration and information, contact Merl Pelletier at 908-879-7262, ext. 37.

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The Nature Conservancy is a leading international, nonprofit organization that preserves plants, animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 14 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 117 million acres in 28 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Active in the Garden State since 1955, the Conservancy established the New Jersey Chapter in 1988. Within the state, the Conservancy has protected over 50,000 acres and has completed over 300 conservation transactions with the help of 28,000 individual members, as well as corporate sponsors and foundations. Visit us on the Web at nature.org/New Jersey.