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Article: Outgoing New Jersey Official Urges State Purchase of Land to Protect It.
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- September 23, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 22 -- Despite 20 years of hard-fought Pinelands preservation efforts and the strictest zoning plan in America, the 1 million-acre region of forests, farms and small towns won't be permanently protected until much more land is purchased for public use, warns outgoing Pinelands Commission executive director Terrence D. Moore.
"Can you always depend on the regulatory process to protect the Pinelands of New Jersey? That's a tremendous leap of faith in the political establishment over the next 100 years," Moore said. "The success here is we haven't protected the Pinelands, we have held this land for a period of time. ...