“State Highlands Bill Threatens Northern New
Jersey Property Owners”
The 100-page Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act (S.1,
A. 2635) would establish a regional planning commission, the
Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council, to prepare a
master regional land use plan, to be followed by “stringent”
development regulations by the Department of Environmental Protection.
“Testimony of Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D. before
the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, The Highlands Conservation
Act, 366 Senate Dirksen Office Building,
March 24, 2004”
If the Highlands Conservation Act (H.R. 1964)
is enacted, it will be
harmful for the people in the highlands and their environment.
January 2006:
Heritage
Areas, Eminent Domain Looms; Gov. Corzine Arrives
Additional Helpful
Organizations
Institute for Justice
(a non-profit legal foundation
that defends freedom, is representing property owners in New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and other areas where cities
are using eminent domain to take property from small businesses
and homeowners to transfer it to their private businesses, such
as hotels and upscale stores.)
address
Additional Resources
The Patriot of New Jersey
Editors: Ed Smith
& Bruce Siminoff
Covers many property rights issues.
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“Biosphere Reserves in Action: Case Studies
of the American Experience:
Published by the United States Man and the Biosphere Program
(U.S. MAB, June 1995.”
Includes studies of 12 major UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the
U.S.
The Biosphere Reserves in New Jersey:
9. New
Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve
map
link
to main page
See our
Biosphere Reserves
Index Page
for links to all 12 studies
Websites
New Jersey State Legislature
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State News
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 “Testimony
By Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation of
America, Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and
Public Lands of the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House
of Representatives Regarding H. R. 1286, Washington-Rochambeau
Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail Designation Act,
October 30, 2007”
The proposed 600-mile Washington-Rochambeau Historic Trail
through nine states from Rhode Island to Virginia poses a threat
to private property rights because of the National Park Service’s
pattern of secrecy, lack of true public participation, piecemeal
development, use of municipalities and non-profit agencies as
false fronts, and use of eminent domain (directly, indirectly
through local municipalities, and later to widen trails). Amendments
to H.R. 1286 are proposed to eliminate these deficiencies.
More on this
topic: Trails—National
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- “National
Wildlife Refuge Draft Bill Threatens Trenton, NJ, Area”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, February 2, 2004)
Rep. Christopher H. Smith has a draft bill to create a National
Wildlife Refuge for the Hamilton-Trenton Marsh and Crosswicks
Creek. Sportsmen, boaters, and property owners are angry, because
a lock-out except for biologists, birders, canoers, and hikers
would displace the established uses of the area.
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- “New
Land Designation Threatens Northern New Jersey Communities”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, December 8, 2003)
The New Jersey delegation maneuvered the “Highlands
Stewardship Act,” with $110 million for land acquisition,
into the “Healthy Forest Restoration Act,”
the bill that Western states ardently sought to reduce the risk
of catastrophic forest fires, but the addition was stripped in
conference.
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- “Bill
would create Highlands Stewardship Area - $25 million fund would
tie up land in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, August 27, 2003)
Wealthy New York interests, non-profits, recreationists, and
preservationists have been working for over ten years on a grandiose
greenway from the Delaware River across northern New Jersey,
southern New York just north of the metropolitan region, and
western Connecticut. A new bill in Congress will direct money
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to buy up land.
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- Full proposal for New York Metropolitan Region Biosphere
Reserve:
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