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screamingay · 4 years ago

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i love my nature conservation group i really do but their name starts with citizens united and even though they're older than That citizens united it's like. obviously people are gonna think of That one first so we have to use the longer abbreviation all the time just to avoid that connection being made 😩

#im reading some rlly important history abt the place we're walking at today and one of the news stories used citizens united #and it's like nooo please just say CU or CU maurice river if u have to #we are the OPPOSITE of them #anyway this is actually pretty cool it's a section of land in between 2 rivers in the pine barrens and it's been fought over since the 80s #originally they wanted to dump radioactive shit there and MY GROUP!! CU!!! they were the first ones to step in and protect it #bc it was literally home to the last bald eagle in the fucking state and full of other rare and endangered species #we got it designated as a federal wild & scenic land which helped but there was still a fucking parade of corporations over the years who #tried to get at it for all kinds of shit #turf farm and soccer fields. sand mining. coal burning power plant. most recently a golf course and senior housing #and at the end of 2019 phil murphy FINALLY sold it to the njdep green acres program which hopefully will protect it from development forever #this was like. over 3 decades of dispute that involved almost every environmental protection group we have #look up holly farm millville if u wanna learn more abt it bc it's insane how long this fight has been going on #ive never actually gotten to visit it so im rlly excited #i know itll take sone work too bc it hasnt been truly protected before and that means there are old buildings from failed projects there #and people who ride quads around the wetlands which is SO detrimental to the environment and it completely fucks up the views #so it'll take work to restore but it's like. 1400 acres of vital breeding and hunting grounds for native wildlife thats legally protected #so yeah! very exciting

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