Fifty new workshop facilitators were trained in Project WILD, Aquatic WILD, Project Learning Tree and Project WET in August, 1998, at the Hackensack Meadowlands Environment Center. The 3-day training was funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and certified the recruits to conduct teacher workshops in the environmental education projects.

The participants included: Shannon Allen (Lakewood), Laura Allison (Atco), Emily Amon (Frenchtown), Susan Bartol (Lyndhurst), Karen Belanger (Toms River), Chuck Blatherwick (Blue Anchor), Cathy Blumig (Somerset), Diane Brosious (Atco), Megan Callus (Cranford), Dana Carlucci (Langhorne), Natalie Ciervo (Rahway), Kim Curry (East Orange), Sandra Davis (New Brunswick), Fran Di Carlantonio (Thorofare), Bonnie Eiben (Woodbridge), Jim Faczak (Matawan), Krista Fritz (Westville Grove), Theresa Gordon (Elmwood Park), Bill Haines (Park Ridge), Brenda Harrower (Succasunna), Pat Heaney (Howell), Melissa Hemsey (Little Falls), Dee Hohenstein (Toms River), Beth Kelly (West Orange), Michael Kenny (Waldwick), Ann Kinney (Hoboken), Marianne Lapp (Edgewater Park), Lynn Lockwood (Brick), Amy Mallett (Port Monmouth), Chris Martine (East Brunswick), Margaret Morales (Matawan), Carol Papp (Eatontown), Carmen Pirotte (Jersey City), Gina Provenzano (Raritan), Elaine Puzo-Castoro (Hackettstown), Marnie Richtmyer (Brick), Sally Rowland (Cape May Court House), Jennifer Sawhill (Smithville), Erin Servillo (Helmetta), Jennifer Smith (Clinton), Susheela Varma (Berkeley Heights), Natalie Verdi (Glen Gardner), Roberta Wallace (Smithville), Yvette Weaver (Upper Montclair), Nancy Wielert (Collingswood), Sandi Weingroff (Toms River), and Richard Wilson (Branchville).