Members of the Native American Advancement Corporation are on a mission to teach others how to be more environmentally friendly. The organization has acquired a 63-acre property in Salem County with the aim of transforming the land and a church there into an educational center and environmental preserve that will be open to the public.

Tyrese Gould Jacinto, president and CEO of the corporation, has a personal connection to the property in the Burden Hill forest area of Quinton Township. It was once home to an ancient Native American tribe known as the Cohanzick people. They’re the ancestors of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape nation, a state-recognized tribe of which Jacinto is a member.