Reply to highlands act monitoring plan due September 10, 2017 with specifics I would like to se the word “conservation” changed to “protection” in the entire document. I t is clear that the word “conservation” is a code word used by wildlife murderers to hide their true intent of killing and murdering birds/wildlife, reptiles, etc for their own enjoyment of killing so it is frequently used by hunters to hide their true intent. I think it is time that we protect wildlife fully and totally. They have little land left to live on and their full protection is part of the environmental scheme that provides health and benefits for all of us. This sneak attack is not appreciated by the citizens of nj. Pagd 13 – using as forests for “resource management” is also another sneak word that means whatever we save is just there until some profiteer can come along and log it to death, butn it to death, chemically treat it to death. There is no protection for our forests at all when you use the words “resource management” for our forests. The whole idea of ht eopen space public taxation was to save and protect, not to salt it away until some profiteer or evil govt swamp agency comes along and logs it and make s money off it. We se that happening by the njdffgw and their secret pals, who they have allowed to take the lands we all tried to protect and are logging it for some pretension of a bird species,m meanwile killing our trees that make oxygen for us and killing the hundreds of forest bird species that have made their homes in our forests. The evil mendacity going on in our corrupt nj govt has perverted what is happening to our open space. Non profits are using our open lands to make huge sums for their ownj activities, which activities do not promote the good of all nj citizens, numbering almost 9 million now. We have fake self appointed arborists who will say anything for money. They are after money and see it in the public lands we all paid to save and protect. The intention of open space was to protect, not to allow privileged friends of njdfgw to log it for their own profitability. Toomany fake arborists will say anything for their billings and their own enrichment. Science is not pure anymore. You can find someone who will say anything you want if you pay them. We know that goes on in corrupt nj every single day. Wildlife and bird protection is extremely important to all of us. As to deer killing and murder by the psychos who enjoyh murdering wildlife for their joy at killing, there is no sense to that in congested nj at all. No sense at all. We are the most crowded state in this nation. Unfortuanely we have a state agency njdfgw creatd in the l940s which still operates as if nj is exiting in the l940’s. this agency relies on growing animals to be shot to death for license money. So they will always promote growing deer so they can be killed. I find other state agencies afraid to call this as the mess it is. This agency constantly alters habitat to grow deer populations so it can sell license to kill these animals. And this njdfgw is also lying to the nj public sonstantly to promote their vile, violent activites. The lies are plentiful. Deer are monetized victims from this vile agency – new jersey divison fish & wildlife division. Page 13 – I note use of the words “deer management” when clearly it is deer killing you are after and I find that repugnant, vile, violent and evil. This agency clearly is an advocate of guns, killing, wildlife murder and it is not planning “management” it is planning deer murder so to lie in this use of “deer management “ is a lie to the public citizens of nj. Muderous methods of killing are always what is promoted by state agencies and to misuse words to fool the public is demonstrable criminality. You intend deer killing, not compassion to these animals. You intend murderous methods and don’t want to use accuracy in your plan. If that Is not the case, please set out what compassionate methods you intend to use as part of your “deer management plans Forest restoration is a failure due to so many effects on the forest, not just one animal We have insects eating up and destroying the forest ”. EMERALD ASH BORER, GYPSY MOTH CATERPILLER, OAK WILT, GOUTY OAK GALL, VERTICILLIAM WILT, SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE, HEMLOCK WOOLY ADELGID, EASTERN PIN LOOPER, BACTERIAL LEAF SCORCH, BEECH BARK DISEASE, SCARLET OAK SAWFLY ARE JUST SOME OF THE VIRUSES AND DISEASES ATTACKING TREES.. , VOLES, M OLES, RABBITS, ACID RAIN, TOXIC CHEMICAL USE, LEAD USE, DIRTY AIR, DIRTY WATER, SOIL IMPACTED BY COMPACTION AND OVERBURNING SO THAT IT IS HARMED. STEALING OF TREES FROM OUR FORESTS IS ALSO RAMPANT. SO THAT THE IMPACTS ON OUR FORESTS ARE MAJOR, AND TO SIMPLY BLAME DEER IS VILE, VIOLENT NONSENSE. PAGE 24 – All golf courses should be mandated to only use recycled water on their grounds. This state should not allow use of virgin waters for watering golf course grounds. The u se of roundup, chrlorpyrifos, atrazine, paraquat, 1,3 dichloroproene should not be permitted anywhere in this area of the highlands.in addition there aremany others listed here that are bringing about death of life: https://utz.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/EN_UTZ_List-of-Banned- PesticidesWatchlist_v1.0_2015.pdf pg 27 goals – we need to include the protection of wildlife in these area as a desired goal. Senior scientists all over this world have warned about the sixth extinction of wildlife> THE EXTINCTION CRISIS It’s frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2]. Unlike past mass extinctions, caused by events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. In fact, 99 percent of currently threatened species are at risk from human activities, primarily those driving habitat loss, introduction of exotic species, and global warming [3]. Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species’ extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel. Species diversity ensures ecosystem resilience, giving ecological communities the scope they need to withstand stress. Thus while conservationists often justifiably focus their efforts on species-rich ecosystems like rainforests and coral reefs — which have a lot to lose — a comprehensive strategy for saving biodiversity must also include habitat types with fewer species, like grasslands, tundra, and polar seas — for which any loss could be irreversibly devastating. And while much concern over extinction focuses on globally lost species, most of biodiversity’s benefits take place at a local level, and conserving local populations is the only way to ensure genetic diversity critical for a species’ long-term survival. In the past 500 years, we know of approximately 1,000 species that have gone extinct, from the woodland bison of West Virginia and Arizona’s Merriam’s elk to the Rocky Mountain grasshopper, passenger pigeon and Puerto Rico’s Culebra parrot — but this doesn’t account for thousands of species that disappeared before scientists had a chance to describe them [4]. Nobody really knows how many species are in danger of becoming extinct. Noted conservation scientist David Wilcove estimates that there are 14,000 to 35,000 endangered species in the United States, which is 7 to 18 percent of U.S. flora and fauna. The IUCN has assessed roughly 3 percent of described species and identified 16,928 species worldwide as being threatened with extinction, or roughly 38 percent of those assessed. In its latest four-year endangered species assessment, the IUCN reports that the world won’t meet a goal of reversing the extinction trend toward species depletion by 2010 [5]. What’s clear is that many thousands of species are at risk of disappearing forever in the coming decades. Pg 32 – agriculture has in fact become a toxic chemical polluter dangerous to all life on earth. The use of toxic chemicals on farms is major. Their use of nitrates is damaging to water so that we need to institute Regulations that prevent the use of such life alterning, life damaging chemicals In nj. Farms also have adopted factory farming practices which brutalize animals, giving them short lives of extreme stress and torture and feeding them endless quantities of toxic chemicals to make them grow fast, produce more. Cows are forced to give at least six times the quantity of milk they used to give. Such brutality alters the physical condition of the cows. When we save farms, I see a desired goal of saving farms that use Organic methods of growing.