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Link to a mailer prepared for PG’s Open Space Advisory Committee by Morris Land Conservancy. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Somerset County’s Planning Board compiled a very useful guide to available conservation resources, republished here with permission. If you’re considering preserving your land, these links and agencies represent an excellent place to start.
 Somerset County Preservation Guide

Whether you walk, jog, or simply find an agreeable spot to sit apart and clear your mind, you owe it to yourself to enjoy the enduring marvel that is Natirar and your Open Space tax dollars at work.

By simply placing a conservation easement on your land, you can generate a substantial multi-year tax benefit while retaining full ownership and private enjoyment of your entire acreage.

The worldwide web contains many helpful resources to assist your further investigation of public and private land preservation efforts in the Garden State. As a public service, we’ve highlighted a few of them here.

Every time the sun rises over New Jersey, another fifty acres of open land falls to development. Soaring property taxes are one consequence.

An Environmental Resource Inventory will enhance and preserve our community and potentially ensure that areas of historic, cultural, scenic, and recreational potential are protected.

Quarterly news from the Borough Environmental Commission.

An inventory of trees on public property and along rights-of-way in the Twin Borough reveals a surprising mix of species and some alarming news about health of this important civic asset.

A key objective of our 1998 Open Space Master Plan was securing undeveloped “greenways” at strategic entry-points to the community.

Cub Scout Pack 236 of Long Valley tops of the current list on the Environmental Honor Roll. In an effort to comply with New Jersey’s Storm water regulations, the scouts marked over 60 drains in the Tiger Hill neighborhood with a blue disk stating “No Dumping, Drains to Stream.” The […]

Have you ever watched rainwater sheet across your driveway and down your street’s storm drain? NJ public policymakers are watching that runoff too.

A Borough-wide Environmental Resource Inventory will identify geological factors, soil types, groundwater recharge areas, use of surface water, stream bank vegetation, wetland delineation, critical slope areas, wildlife habitat and existing species and general vegetation.

The Borough’s Open Space Advisory Committee announced January 20 that a NJDEP program awarded open space funding totaling $400,000 to the Borough.

An Ordinance amending Ordinance NO. 754 entitled, “An Ordinance of the Borough of Peapack and Gladstone, County of Somerset and State of New Jersey Establishing a Trust Fund for 1) The Acquisition of Land for Open Space and Recreation, 2) The Preservation of Farmland and Historic Sites and 3) The Creation of an Open Space Advisory Committee”

Region-wide, municipalities are buying up real estate to escape the tax consequences of swelling demand for school- and other services. Taking building lots off-market through strategic Open Space spending turns out to be “tax smart” municipal thinking.

An Ordinance of the Borough of Peapack and Gladstone, County of Somerset and State of New Jersey establishing a Trust Fund for 1) the acquisition of land for Open Space and Recreation and 2) The preservation of Farmland and Historic Sites and 3) The creation of an Open Space Advisory Committee.