BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) Up to 2.4 million trees would be cut down as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure.
New Jersey environmental officials say it will mostly affect small, scrawny trees, not the towering giants for which the Pinelands National Refuge is known and loved.
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