EFCG is committed to the preservation of our environment.

Paul Zofnass and his sister, Joan, have created, in New York City's Central Park, a roughly two-mile nature walk around the reservoir, where roughly 100 plants, shrubs and tree species are identified for the visitor. It is accompanied by a brochure available at the entry on Fifth Avenue, describing the 25 "points of interest" on the walk and explaining the elements of ecological significance at each stop.


 
The Zofnass family has also created a roughly 250-acre Preserve in Pound Ridge, NY, an hour north of New York City, through which they have designed and built a ten-mile long "wilderness" hiking trail (The Westchester Wilderness Walk"), from no point on which can any reflection of "civilization" be seen. The Preserve was created through a combination of land gifts and conservation easements donated and organized by the Zofnass family and their neighbors, and is now open to the public.


 

In addition, Paul Zofnass is actively involved in the Environmental studies and activities of Harvard University. He is an advisor to Harvard University on the Environment (UCE); on the Environmental Council for the Harvard School of Public Health; the Harvard University Board of Overseers Committee on University Resources (COUR); formerly on the Visiting Committee for Harvard's Arnold Arboretum; an advisor to Harvard's School of Design-Center for Environment and Technology. He has also created a Scholarship in Environmental Studies in memory of his father, Jesse E. Zofnass, Class of '25. Paul Zofnass is also on the Board of Directors of the Westchester Land Trust, and was just awarded the 2005 Westchester Garden Club Conservation Award. His wife, Renee Ring, serves on the Boards of the Queens Botanical Garden and the Pound Ridge Land Trust. Paul has also committed to finance and help design a permanent New England Forest Exhibition for the Harvard Museum of Natural History.