Restoring the Pinelands’ Atlantic white cedars
MICHELE S. BYERS / NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - To early European settlers, the native evergreen trees known as Atlantic white cedars [go to article]
Gov. Phil Murphy makes additional nominations to Pinelands Commission
DAVID LEVINSKY / BURLINGTON COUNTY TIMES - Gov. Phil Murphy is proposing more changes at the New Jersey Pinelands Commission [go to article]
Activists still battling Pinelands pipeline even as work begins
JEAN MIKLE / APP.COM - Activists from the New Jersey Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch, Clean Water Action, Environment New Jersey and concerned residents gathered [go to article]
Floodgates in Great Egg Harbor would hurt Pinelands River, National Park Service warns
AVALON ZOPPO / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - Massive flood gates being considered for the mouth of the Great Egg Harbor Inlet likely would impact the ecosystem [go to article]
Editorial: Pinelands Commission finds reasonable resolutions to hot issues
PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - Given its responsibility to “preserve, protect and enhance the natural and cultural resources” of the 1.1 million-acre Pinelands National Reserve [go to article]
Burlington County Freeholders still wrestling with pipeline issues
DAVID LEVINSKY / BURLINGTON COUNTY TIMES - The pipeline has become one of the trickiest issues inherited by the new Democratic-controlled freeholder board [go to article]
Threat of lawsuit halts vote to derail controversial Pinelands pipeline
STEVE STRUNSKY / NJ.COM - A vote by a state panel that would have derailed a natural gas pipeline proposed for the New Jersey Pinelands was tabled on Friday, after lawyers [go to article]
Lawmakers were warned a huge fire could hit Pinelands, then one did
DAVID MATTHAU / NJ 101.5 - Last month, New Jersey lawmakers were warned in a special legislative hearing the Pinelands is a fire-danger ticking time bomb [go to article]
11,600-acre Pinelands wildfire caused by humans, investigators say
AVALON ZOPPO / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - A forest fire that burned more than 11,600 acres of the Pinelands was caused by humans in a remote section of the forest [go to article]
NJ forest fire: Fires are as much a part of the Pinelands as the...
RUSS ZIMMER and KALA KACHMAR / APP.COM - Fires are a necessary part of renewal in New Jersey's Pinelands, although controlled burns are preferable to the blaze [go to article]