Originally we had hoped to do the work locally with the help of wood donations by Ken's Tree Care and a local mill.
However, In 2021, the Closter Nature Center made the decision to purchase roughly 80 black locust planks for the project from Lifetime Locust, a mill in Broadalbin, New York. Delivered on December 29th, planks were installed on the Red, Green and Blue Trails in mid-January 2022 thanks to crews provided by Todd Bradbury, owner of Bradbury Landscape in Closter, and William Dahle, superintendent of the borough’s Department of Public Works. Plank replacement along the Orange Trail as it passes through the wetlands area is also being planned. The overall cost of this partial restoration project has been just under $10,000, paid for by generous donations of our patrons, members and the Closter Nature Center.
