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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) provide their first update since February on their plan to restore of LSP.

Firefighters have a good handle on two major wildfires that have burned through a combined 1,000 acres in Burlington and Ocean counties during the past two days. Smoky conditions, however, are expected to remain in Ocean County. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Tuesday afternoon the fire in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in Pemberton Township, which burned 407 acres, is 50% contained. It was first reported around 10:20 p.m. Monday night. Get our free mobile app Assistant Division Fore...

Credit: (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) New Jersey Pinelands The Department of Environmental Protection plans to hold public hearings to try to settle a long-running confrontation over the illegal use of off-road vehicles on state property in the Pinelands, the DEP’s new Commissioner, Shawn LaTourette, said. LaTourette hopes the hearings will find a way of balancing the interests of drivers of pickup trucks and all-terrain vehicles with those of hikers, birders or anglers. The hearings represent the l...

N.J. Forest Fire Mostly Contained; Firefighter Still Critical By Wayne Parry | March 17, 2021 LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A forest fire near the Jersey Shore that shut down the Garden State Parkway, sent neighbors fleeing and led to a firefighter’s hospitalization in critical condition was “a very, very near catastrophe,” authorities said Monday. The fire that began Sunday afternoon in Lakewood and jumped the Parkway into Brick Township, eventually burned 1...

Very near catastrophic: Forest fire that burned 170 acres in New Jersey, critically injured firefighter is 100% contained Nicolas Fernandes, Thomas P. Costello and Ken Serrano, Asbury Park Press Brush Fire in Lakewood closes Garden State Parkway Replay Video UP NEXT LAKEWOOD, N.J. — The forest fire that burned 170 acres, damaged homes and critically injured a firefighter in New Jersey is 100% contained, according to officials. The fire started in Lakewood on Sunday aftern...

A damaging Ocean County blaze is the state's first major fire of the year — the stage is set for more

While the interest in wildlife-oriented recreational opportunities has grown, development is encroaching on wildlife every year. In New Jersey, the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation found that 794,000 people hunted, fished and more than 2.4 million people participated in other recreational activities. Get our free mobile app The survey said that while demand continues to be strong, the overall amount of land available for the pursuit of wildlife-oriente...

TRENTON - To help increase striped bass numbers, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection will require anglers to use circle hooks when catch-and-release fishing for striped bass with natural bait, effective Jan. 1, 2021. The requirement stems from changes the Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board made in 2019 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan, to address overfishing. The board, part of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, reduced New Jersey’s striped bass ba...