Monthly Archives: October 2022

Contact Gov. Murphy And Demand That He Veto DEP’s Logging Plan DEP Firemen Must Not Be Allowed To Determine The Fate Of NJ’s Public Forests The photo above is of a “thinned” Pinelands forest deemed a “conservation” example in a … Continue reading →

DEP Redacts And Denies Documents – Including Commissioner’s Letter DEP Claims Secret Government Meetings Exempt From OPRA Assistant Commissioner Cecil Directly Involved, Despite Gross Conflicts Of Interest On August 9, immediately after learning of the DEP’s proposed logging plan, I … Continue reading →

I let it go last week when NJ Spotlight falsely reported that DEP had proposed new flood hazard rules. Here is DEP’s webpage for formal rule proposals, and there is no flood hazard rule proposed (or stormwater management, NJPDES, WQMP, … Continue reading →

“Forest Thinning” Is Wrong Chainsaw Medicine, Based On Flawed Science  This thinning was intended as a wildfire protection measure, yet we learned at the Pinelands Climate Committee last year that thinning has not proven to be a useful wildfire control … Continue reading →

Debate Turns Ugly – The Masks And The Gloves Are Off! In the end, the injury to the carbon sequestering ability of this forest was my primary objection to this project. I don’t believe that the work that the Forest … Continue reading →