Background information on our Conservation Alerts, and positions on important issues.

• Witness to Whitman - SPECTATORS NOT CITIZENS --Feb 2001
• HOMAGE TO LEFTOVERS The Draft Final State Development & Redevelopment Plan --Feb 2001
• GALE WARNINGS: Governor Whitman Nominated for U.S. E.P.A. Administrator --January 2001
• SLEEPWALKING THROUGH THE BOGS: Commissioner Shinn, The NJDEP, and the A.R. DeMarco Enterprises, Inc., Wetlands Violation Case -- December 2000
• Comments on the Water Quality and Watershed Management Proposed Repeal and New Rules: N.J.A.C. 7:15 DEP DOCKET NUMBER: 20-0006/62 -- July 2000
• The Cranberry General Permit: What Does Need Have to do with it?, May , 2000
• Does Governor Whitman Deserve the American Planning Association Award?, April, 2000
• Beach Replenishment - the Last thing a good Society should work on, March , 2000
• Motor bikes in State Parks? No Way, March 2000
• The Limits of Buying Land in Sprawl Control - Opinion Piece by John Echeverria, Jan. 2000
• Last Salvo on Coastal Rules: An Answer to Governor Whitman's Accusations, Feb 2000
• State Plan: NJ Citizens Deserve Better - An Answer to NJ Future,Jan. 2000
• Revelations and USFWS Report Expose Secret Bog Expansions. Conservationist Call Upon Governor Whitman to Review, Halt Cranberry General Permit to Convert Wetlands, October 1999
• Prelude to Coastal Failure and How to Correct It, August 1999
• Brace Yourself: Here Comes the Development Onslaught: 50,000 More Dwelling Units Possible For Cape May by 2020 -- July 1999
• Protest the General Permit for the Cranberry Industry and the $ Political Contributions -- July 1999
• Goodbye Rural, Hello Bethle-Burbia -- Comments of New Jersey Audubon Society on Bethlehem Township’s Greenway and Open Space Plan,June 21, 1999
• Why Not New Jersey? An Essay on Fire at Eden's Gate, Tom Mccall and The Oregon Story, by Brent Walth, May 1999.
• Testimony on the Implementing Legislation for the Garden State Preservation Trust: A-1,000,000--Before the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, May 1999.
• Endangered Species are Worth More than a Postage Stamp; The Endangered Species Coalition urges you to support Congressman George Miller's (D-CA) Endangered Species Recovery Act of 1999, April 1999.
• Comments On the Ineffective, Terminally Indecisive, Interim Plan, March 31, 1999.
• $ The $ Parties $ And $ The Plan: $ Where They Are, $ Why They're $ Stuck $, February 1999.
• Land and Water Conservation Funding & State Nongame Funding, February 1999.
• Coastal Comments, January 1999
• Opposition to proposed General Permit for the Cranberry Industry -- November 1998.
• The State Plan and the Proposed 9-miles Trenton-Hopewell Township Sewer Line: Standing the State Plan on Its Head -- September 1998
• How is our State Plan Doing? -- July 1998
• Outline of "Build-Out Legislation", also known as "Citizen's Development Right to Know Act". -- April 1998
• Testimony of NJAS to the NJ State Planning Commission -- February 1998