NJ Public Forest Future Pending. We should not even be here NJFTF

Remembering Governor Thomas Kean's Legacy Governor's Conference on NJ-Outdoors.

NJ's Core Highlands Remaining Forest, will they to go the way of Bolsonaro's Amazon?

May 27, 1986 "Governor Kean creates the Governor’s Council on New Jersey Outdoors in executive order number 138. The council is charged with planning for the current and future needs of outdoor space to meet the requirements of the current and future population of the state." (of which i attended: Pyramid Mountain came out of it's bowels, not maturing trees on Public Lands)

Her is an example of what a real Governor who loved his State of New Jersey be doing: Murphy in contrast is silent on what was allowed to happen Sparta Mountain; (Under Christie Administration; and on-going without a forest plan, under Murphy)( One a climate change denier, the other a believer, but with no example, but from the denier, and the forces that allowed Sparta Mountain)..

We appear to have gone in another business, rather than ecological direction a perversion of the trust for Public Forest; Sparta Mountain continues, despite it's non-transparent intrusion into the core of the NJ Highlands and Public Forest; despite the fact No Forest Plan actually exists. Sparta Mountain is beyond any compromise, and stands as a offensive to the People of this State, and why the present Governor can not put an end to this violation of the public trust.

The NJ Forestry Association a group of landscaper businessmen, is attempting to replace the NJ Forest Service under NJDEP. Their statement on June 30 Webinar, "we should not put all our eggs in the same basket" is revealing in speaking of "public land" management.

Their realm is private alone, whereas NJ Forest Service is Public and private in encouraging private land owners to be conscience and considerate of ecological and healthily forest ecospheres on property they own or wish to manage. Are we not all in fact "in the same basket" especially with the climate crisis facing us on a planetary level?

NJ Forestry Association Exposed. Bad Faith

NJFA (New Jersey Forestry Association) webinar of May 17th 2022, was quite revealing in their hopes of a political solution, outside the Forest Task Force, showing a spirit of bad faith, in avoiding the issue at hand, climate change, and the role of Public Forest, and maturing trees, as NJ has, and their ability to sequester carbon. This allowance of the right to life of NJ recurring, maturing forest is a cost effective; no cost in attempting to diminish the climate change predicament.

In a State like NJ with traffic snarls from sprawl, and the coming Affordable Housing, living one place, working another, shopping; pollution emissions from motor vehicle increasing and mounting, the loss of trees and injury to remaining forest complex ecosystems will only decrease human and planetary health.

Tree Loss impacts and cumulative effects from forest demise

Every day, a 40 foot tree takes in 50 gallons of dissolved nutrients from the soil, raises this mixture to it’s upmost leaves,converts into 10 pounds of carbohydrates and releases about 60 cubic feet of pure oxygen into the air.Trees absorb noise as in traffic noise. Soil Loss: “one percent of organic matter in the top six inches of soil holds approximately 27,000 gallons of water per acre! Removal of this minimal amount of organic matter can have significant water flow implications, especially in a flood prone area.

The one basket we "are" all in, NJ and Planet Earth.

So Finally a common geopolitical dynamic; Climate change that can unite US; Life or Death, Science or Political garbage. shall we chose the political inappropriate paradigm of business over science, garbage? There can be no compromise with the interest of the NJ Forestry Association, their proposal may be, should be a death sentence to the obsolete forestry of the past, and certainly inappropriate for NJ's Forest remaining. Do not enough trees, remaining forest, and woodlands already fall to over-development State, Nation and worldwide?

No Compromise with Forestry Association!

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time...Abe Lincoln..( all in one basket is where we want to be).

Science in the background of climate change, and all things according to their background. Shall the will of the Public Trust in government prevail, or be subverted by a Task Force that should never have been formed, a more appropriate scenario would of been; Governor Murphy's Council on New Jersey Outdoors.

Write call your State representatives stop the Sparta Mountain logging intrusions and no compromise with the NJ Forest Association in attempts to make logging legal in NJ remaining public forests.