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The purpose of the NJ Association of Conservation Districts is to conduct educational, scientific and charitable work concerning the conservation, maintenance, improvement, development and use of land, soil, water, trees, vegetation, fish and wildlife, open space and other renewable natural resources.​

Scholarships

​The NJACD Memorial Conservation Scholarship Fund establishes a continuing memorial to those recognized and honored through monetary contribution for their dedicated service to the conservation of our natural resources. This scholarship is granted to encourage and support qualified students to pursue a career in a field related to the conservation and management of natural resources.

Contributions to the Scholarship Fund have been invested to produce a continuing source of income to support scholarships to qualifying students in the field of conservation. Scholarships are funded from the interest earned on the New Jersey Association of Conservation Districts Memorial Conservation Scholarship Fund.

Eligibility

  • Must be a New Jersey resident.
  • Must be a full time student in good standing at an accredited college (not necessarily in NJ).
  • Must have successfully completed, or will complete by the scholarship award date, at least four full semesters of study.
  • Must be an undergraduate enrolled in a major curriculum of agriculture or natural resource conservation, including agronomy, soil science, plant science, forestry, geography, journalism, agricultural education, environmental science, wildlife or fisheries management, environmental engineering, and other areas related to conservation.

Evaluation Criteria

  • Academic commitment to a field of conservation
  • Demonstrated scholastic ability
  • Involvement in extra curricular activities or volunteer projects related to conservation
  • Financial need

How To Apply

Applications are accepted between January 1st and May 31st. Scholarships will be awarded in August. Download, print and mail your application to:
​BERGEN COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT
ATTN: INES ZIMMERMAN
700 KINDERKAMACK RD, SUITE 103
​ORADEL NJ 07649
Click here to download the NJACD Memorial Conservation Scholarship Application...

2025 Scholarship Recipient

Cora Attias-Inzano
​The New Jersey Association of Conservation Districts is pleased to award the $1,000 2025 Memorial Conservation Scholarship to Cora Attias-Inzano. We hope this will help cover basic needs and can foster a commitment to such important forest conservation work. Congratulations!
My name is Cora Attias-Inzano, and I am from Hillsborough, New Jersey. I am a senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying Forest Ecology and Conservation. Through my experience as the Land Ecology Intern at the Watershed Institute in Pennington, New Jersey, I began my work in the field dedicated to saving American beech trees. These trees are currently threatened by the rapid spread of Beech Leaf Disease, a new and extremely deadly disease.

With my work I hope to study how rapidly the disease spreads and test management plans or chemical treatments that might save American beeches. The photograph I have attached is the first American beech that I noticed was infected and drove my work to save others like it.

This summer I am working at Harvard University’s Harvard Forest, as a Megaplot Field Technician. I chose this position because I wanted to continue to work with forests, but more importantly I wanted to learn as much as I could from Harvard Forest’s beech management plans and their climate smart forestry program.

I chose UMass because of its incredible resources and opportunities in the field. I also have a twin sister enrolled in UMass. With the cost of two siblings in school at the same time, scholarships and work study are very important.
Click here to view past NJ Conservation Scholarship recipients...