New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection is using $19 million to restore 10,000 acres of Atlantic white cedar in areas where they are dead or dying.
A miles-long, sandy stretch of road dominated by thousands of acres of pitch pine trees suddenly yields the most primeval of scenes in New Jersey’s Pinelands — a healthy Atlantic white cedar swamp so thick and cool that the temperature can drop 15 degrees just a few feet within.
“It’s like a church when you stare into a cedar forest,” says John Cecil, assistant commissioner of State Parks, Forests & Historic Sites at New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection. “It’s calm, it’s cool, and just a little bit of light comes through.” As recently as the 1990s, the state had 30,000 acres. When first settled, it had 125,000 acres of cedar then in high demand for its rot resistance and used to make cedar shingles for colonial Philadelphia.on state-owned land over the next decade with $19 million from settlements with manufacturers and distributors of gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether that contaminated ground and surface water throughout the state. It is thought to be the largest restoration of the species in U.S.
Atop a wooden bridge overlooking a tea-colored stream, DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette and other department experts said the state’s cedar trees were once widely harvested for lumber throughout the state. But the Pinelands Protection Act in 1979 helped preserve 1.1 million acres where big swaths of Atlantic white cedar still lived. Still, in those areas where cedars had been harvested, maples, gum, and other species took over.
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