The Pinelands Commission will soon
consider making a large number of
changes to the boundaries of the "management areas" that determine the
kinds of development permitted in
each area under the Comprehensive
Management Plan (CMP).
This is the
first...
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The Pinelands Commission will soon
consider making a large number of
changes to the boundaries of the "management areas" that determine the
kinds of development permitted in
each area under the Comprehensive
Management Plan (CMP).
This is the
first Pinelands-wide review of management area boundaries, and it may
prove to be the last for a very long
time.
So it is critical that the
Commission make changes - and only
make changes - that improve the protection of Pinelands resources.
The review arises out of a project of
the Commission s science office to
map the "ecological integrity" of the
entire Pinelands.
This Ecological
Integrity Assessment (EIA) is an
advanced, quantitative look at three
types of integrity: landscape, aquatic
and wetlands, as well as a combined
integrity that averages the three underlying integrity measures.
The EIA
scores all parts of the Pinelands for the
percent of ecological integrity (0% to
100%) based on the percent of intact
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