NY Pine Barrens threatened.

[imkms]

Not happening here, but could be one day.

LI Residents Pack Hearing Over Proposal To Build Luxury Golf Community Inside Protected Pine Barrens Land

It's nearly decision time in a five-year battle over a proposed resort atop the sensitive Pine Barrens.

newyork.cbslocal.com

 

[Boyd]

I don't know much about Long Island, but made some maps of it a few years ago. The NAIP imagery (which is intended to show tree canopy and agriculture) clearly shows how over-developed it is. The Long Island Pines are just little parks surrounded by urban sprawl and gridlocked traffic.

https://online.boydsmaps.com/#13/40.7703/-73.1503/longIsland2017

Now, of course it's important for them to preserve what is left, but it's a vastly different situation from what we have in the New Jersey Pines. This is what the Pines might have become if the Jetport and New City had been built.

 

[RednekF350]

Another large tract much further to the east Boyd. Long Island State Pine Barrens Presererve.
Where's Long Island Piney when you need him ??

boydsmaps.com

 

[Boyd]

Yes, that's larger but it's bounded and intersected by highways, airports to the North and South and islands of development scattered throughout. It's fine for what it is, don't get me wrong. But I would not be very happy there. Kind of claustrophobic - such a narrow strip of land surrounded by water.

https://online.boydsmaps.com/#12/40.8842/-72.7334/hereHybrid

Where's Long Island Piney when you need him ??

Do we need him?