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Online Stock Market Trading In an important decision for wetlands protection in the State of New Jersey, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey delivered an opinion today affirming the Department of Environmental Protections right to use its Landscape Project maps and data to identify threatened and endangered species habitat and to use this data to designate exceptional resource value wetlands under the State rules implementing the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act.

The state Department of Environmental Protection may keep its rules governing development along New Jersey's coast, a state appeals panel ruled Friday. "The court upheld the standards and protections for our coastal areas that will help ensure that new growth doesn't adversely affect our environment, " said DEP Commissioner Bradley Campbell. Campbell said the DEP rules, put into place late last year, do not put a halt to development, but rather channel it to more appropriate areas.

Stock Investing Course The exceptional resource classification triggers an additional 100 feet of wetlands buffer in the adjacent uplands, and therefore additional protection of threatened and endangered species and their habitat.

but not the urban renewal project. However DEP spokeswoman Amy Cradic said no decision has been made on the NJ Transit site. She said that even if both sites are identical, the state must consider other factors before making any decisions. If there are no alternative locations, the DEP could approve construction on wetlands, officials said. The DEP has previously argued that the town can find another location for the urban renewal complex, although the township disputes that.

Stock Market Game The New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF), the New Jersey Audubon Society (NJAS), Environmental Defense, the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC , Pinelands Preservation Alliance (PPA) and the American Littoral Society (ALS) were represented by Carter Strickland of the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic. The environmental organizations were made party to the litigation as intervenors in support of DEPs rule change. The rule upheld by the Court today will result in greater protection for New Jerseys most important wetlands and the important species that dwell there, said Tom Gilmore, Executive Director for the New Jersey Audubon Society.

"We're a nonregulatory agency, " she said. "We have nothing to do with enforcing state laws." By the time the DEP, acting on a tip, arrived on Gillespie's property in March 2000, workers had dug much of the new pond and deposited the fill in what the DEP later determined to be a wetlands buffer area. They also had cut a section of earth from the old pond's dam to install a new overflow pipe, an act the DEP said required a permit.

Stock Investing Game Last year, the DEP amended its rules to permit the utilization of the Landscape Project to broaden the basis for classification of wetlands to include habitat characteristics. The New Jersey Builders Association challenged the use of the Landscape Project methodology on the grounds that only wetlands where threatened and endangered species were actually sighted, or where there was documented evidence of their presence, should be granted the higher level of protection.

Wetlands are supposedly protected by law from any development. What is going on here There is a chance that this project can be stopped. Approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection will be required. Please call or write to the DEP and ask it to fulfill its obligation to protect the environment. Also, the Edison Wetlands Association will accept public comments over the next week. Write to raritan1@aol.com or call (732) 1660.

Journal Prime Rate Street Wall The new rule identifies and protects all continuous suitable wetland habitat used by endangered species populations, by combining satellite-based land use data with published scientific literature about the habitat use and home range of each species, added Michele Byers, Executive Director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. The broader issue at stake here is the importance of upholding the validity of the Landscape Project maps and methodology which, as the Court recognized, will provide protections from rapid suburbanization of our landscape and loss and degradation of critically important wildlife habitats added ANJECs Executive Director Sandy Batty. This is the first challenge to the Landscape Project - which is a revolutionary tool to delineate threatened and endangered species habitat and the Court upheld the rule as a proactive environmental measure said Jim Tripp of Environmental Defense. "It is our hope that it will be implemented throughout DEP's regulatory structure to supplement the Governors agenda to control sprawl development into environmentally sensitive areas added Carleton Montgomery, Executive Director of PPA..

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