Daily News | N.J.’s parks are underfunded and ‘degraded,’ while off-road vehicles menace sensitive areas, report finds
for the summer because of illegal activity, such as off-roading, rather than posting staff on-site to enforce rules. It did the same last summer, members of the coalition noted Monday during a virtual press briefing.
“This is not an isolated incident,” DeVito said. “This land is just being torn up with off-road vehicle here in a wetlands. This is just rampant all over the Pine Barrens. Habitat is being destroyed by people going in circles, driving up and down hills until they erode into just piles of sand. And I can show you literally hundreds of these scattered throughout the Pine Barrens where the land is being destroyed each and every day.
As Howe was on camera, a woman wandered into the frame and asked about the closure. She said she just wanted to go fishing and didn’t know why the state couldn’t enforce the law without closing down areas.Protection of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens fall under a complex arrangement spelled out by creation of the 1.1 million acre Pinelands National Reserve. The Pinelands is comprised of forests, wetlands, farms and towns. About half, or 480,500 acres, has been permanently protected so far.
The DEP, which has enforcement power, has not formally adopted the map and has a limited budget to patrol such a vast area.
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