“You do not cut down the forest to protect the forest,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. Howard Chew, the owner of Mick’s Canoe and Kayak Rentals in Jenkins, population 36, said not cutting the trees around the Bass River Fire Tower to improve visibility was putting himself and his family at risk, plus the thousands of vacationers who come to the Pinelands each summer.
On Friday, March 8, the Pinelands Commission held a second public hearing on the New Jersey Forest Fire Service’s application to cut 16.4 acres of white pines and loblolly pines in Bass River State…
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