Our Mission

Mordecai Land Trust is a non-profit public charity established in 2001, whose mission is to protect, preserve, maintain and restore Mordecai Island’s shoreline, habitats and species, and to create public awareness of the island through education and scientific research.

Our Mission

Mordecai Land Trust is a non-profit public charity established in 2001, whose mission is to protect, preserve, maintain and restore Mordecai Island’s shoreline, habitats and species, and to create public awareness of the island through education and scientific research.

Mordecai Overview

Species

species

Critical Habitats

Critical Habitats<br />

On-site Projects

on site projects

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Celebrate Love with Us!

Would you like to show Mordecai Island some love? We are conducting an annual membership drive to ask you to consider continuing or starting your relationship with Mordecai Land Trust (MLT) by becoming a member. If you have...

The Beauty and Value of Mordecai Island

A group from Mordecai Land Trust, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Army Corps were out in boats offshore of the island recently, looking at the extent of the erosion on the northwestern side where the Corps’ breakwater will be constructed....

Why Mordecai Island?That we humans, who seem to have a penchant for changing and “improving” everything we see in nature, can stop this process is probably a pipe dream. As Stewart Farrell has said, the fate of these islands is to wash away. But since we clearly have accelerated the progress of erosion, perhaps we can take some steps to retard — and in the process save for a few more generations — what is indeed inevitable. It is on this premise that the Mordecai Land Trust was formed.

The IRS  has determined that the Mordecai Land Trust is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (“Code”) and not a private foundation pursuant to sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Code. Mordecai Land Trust was established in 2001.

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