Mar 2007
Snippets
30/03/07 11:41 Filed in: Jim Beers
Article
The
"Best Science" that each new environmental law and
regulation claims as a basis today is at best
"snippetology science". A snippet is a "small piece",
a "fragment", or a "scrap" according to Webster.
Adding the suffix "ology" means "the study of" thus
the study of fragments. These "fragments" or
"snippets" are used as legal justifications and as
propaganda in the media to advance the expansion of
government authority and to evangelize the public
with myths and bogeymen for the purposes of radical
and hidden agendas of various factions both within
and outside this country.
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New Jersey maintains rapid rate of urban development and subsequent loss of open space
22/03/07 12:36 Filed in: Keep It Green
Campaign
For Immediate Release
New Brunswick/Glassboro, NJ
New Jersey is still among the most rapidly urbanizing states in the nation. That trend is continuing according to researchers at the Rutgers University Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis and Rowan University Department of Geography. The research team consisting Dr. Richard Lathrop and John Bognar (Rutgers) and Dr. John Hasse (Rowan) are evaluating newly-released data to assess urban development and loss of open space in New Jersey occurring during recent decades. The research, funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundations, utilizes a detailed digital map of land use in NJ created from high resolution aerial photographs taken in 2002 (please example below). The digital map, developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, took 5 years to compile and is the third such map, providing an update to similar maps created for the years 1986 and 1995. The study compares land use changes and trends over these three dates.
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New Brunswick/Glassboro, NJ
New Jersey is still among the most rapidly urbanizing states in the nation. That trend is continuing according to researchers at the Rutgers University Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis and Rowan University Department of Geography. The research team consisting Dr. Richard Lathrop and John Bognar (Rutgers) and Dr. John Hasse (Rowan) are evaluating newly-released data to assess urban development and loss of open space in New Jersey occurring during recent decades. The research, funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundations, utilizes a detailed digital map of land use in NJ created from high resolution aerial photographs taken in 2002 (please example below). The digital map, developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, took 5 years to compile and is the third such map, providing an update to similar maps created for the years 1986 and 1995. The study compares land use changes and trends over these three dates.
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Daily Record Editorial
14/03/07 18:15 Filed in: NJ Bear
Issue
Is
that the trash police?
The state's foolishness over dealing with bears is beginning to rival what you would see in a cartoon. We've already commented on the silliness of the state proposing to spend $850,000 to educate residents in northwest New Jersey about bears. Now we learn that an apparent component of that idea is the dispatching of state Department of Environmental Protection workers to inspect trash cans. The trash-sweep is scheduled to cover Morris and four other counties: Sussex, Warren, Bergen and Passaic. Picture this: A uniformed state worker shows up at your house and asks, "May I please see your garbage can?"
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The state's foolishness over dealing with bears is beginning to rival what you would see in a cartoon. We've already commented on the silliness of the state proposing to spend $850,000 to educate residents in northwest New Jersey about bears. Now we learn that an apparent component of that idea is the dispatching of state Department of Environmental Protection workers to inspect trash cans. The trash-sweep is scheduled to cover Morris and four other counties: Sussex, Warren, Bergen and Passaic. Picture this: A uniformed state worker shows up at your house and asks, "May I please see your garbage can?"
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Curb building, not people, to reduce bear encounters
14/03/07 18:13 Filed in: NJ Bear
Issue
(easton,
pa.)
DEP in denial
Belatedly, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is tackling the "human" aspect of the bear problem in the northwest part of the state, including Warren County. In coming months the DEP will go hunting for the enablers of bear confrontations -- people who feed the birds, don't secure their trash in bear-proof containers, or leave pet or livestock food where bears can sniff it out. State workers will hand out educational materials, warnings and, if necessary, fines.
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DEP in denial
Belatedly, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is tackling the "human" aspect of the bear problem in the northwest part of the state, including Warren County. In coming months the DEP will go hunting for the enablers of bear confrontations -- people who feed the birds, don't secure their trash in bear-proof containers, or leave pet or livestock food where bears can sniff it out. State workers will hand out educational materials, warnings and, if necessary, fines.
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State to do survey about black bears
12/03/07 18:31 Filed in: NJ Bear
Issue
By
MICHAEL RISPOLI
GANNETT STATE BUREAU
TRENTON - If Yogi or Boo-Boo have been stealing pic-a-nac baskets in northwest New Jersey, the state Department of Environmental Protection wants to know.
Later this month, in a move that would make Jellystone Park's Ranger Smith proud, the DEP plans a sweep across five counties - Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren - to find out if residents and businesses have been intentionally or unintentionally feeding black bears. Read More...
GANNETT STATE BUREAU
TRENTON - If Yogi or Boo-Boo have been stealing pic-a-nac baskets in northwest New Jersey, the state Department of Environmental Protection wants to know.
Later this month, in a move that would make Jellystone Park's Ranger Smith proud, the DEP plans a sweep across five counties - Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren - to find out if residents and businesses have been intentionally or unintentionally feeding black bears. Read More...
