新泽西州批准逾8800万美元土地保护与公园资金：4425万美元改造州立公园，2632万美元收购洪泛区房产
新泽西州州长 Mikie Sherrill 政府10月23日宣布，花园州保护信托（GSPT）已批准逾8,800万美元资金包，用于全州土地保护、州立公园资本改造与 Blue Acres 洪泛区自愿收购，资金来自宪法专拨的公司营业税收入；信托于10月21日会议批准州环境保护厅（DEP）推荐的方案，现送州议会正式拨款。州环境保护厅10月26日更新公布了分项与非营利项目细节。
分项为：开发与资本项目4,425万美元，用于42座州立公园、11片州有森林、50多处历史遗址与122个州野生动物管理区的露营设施、栖息地修复、船钓通道、历史建筑加固与道路桥梁维修，DEP 管理的公共土地逾80万英亩、每年访客逾1,800万人次；Blue Acres 收购2,632.5万美元，该计划自1995年起以自愿卖出方式收购反复被淹的房产、恢复土地的天然蓄洪功能，迄今已完成逾1,250宗住宅收购、保护约440英亩洪泛土地；州有土地收购1,182.5万美元，保护关键水源周边土地并连接野生动物走廊；Green Acres 非营利开发项目766.3万美元，5家非营利机构获无配套补助。
环境保护厅副厅长 Joe Seebode 说：「独立的花园州保护信托批准这笔资金，兑现了 Sherrill 州长保护关键水源、提升自然资源、支持人人可享的休闲机会、让新泽西更能抵御风暴与洪水的使命。」非营利项目包括：美国战场信托获22.7万美元修复普林斯顿战场州立公园的历史围栏；新泽西自然保护学校之友获300万美元修缮其位于斯托克斯州有森林内、占地240英亩的校区；大自然保护协会获299.4万美元修复位于保林斯基尔河野生动物管理区的 Hyper Humus 湿地；华盛顿渡口公园协会获68.93万美元恢复该州立公园的森林与草甸；Whitesbog 保护信托获38.86万美元修缮历史村落花园景观。Green Acres 计划自1961年以来已保护逾72.5万英亩开放空间。
New Jersey Approves Over $88 Million for Land Preservation and Parks: $44.25 Million for State Park Capital Projects, $26.3 Million for Blue Acres Buyouts
The administration of New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced on October 23 that the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) has approved a funding package of more than $88 million for land preservation, state park capital improvements and Blue Acres flood buyouts across the state, financed by the constitutional dedication of Corporation Business Tax revenue. The trust approved the Department of Environmental Protection's recommended package at its October 21 meeting, and the package now advances to the Legislature for formal appropriation; the DEP published the detailed breakdown and nonprofit project list in an updated release on October 26.
The breakdown: $44.25 million for development and capital projects across the DEP's network of more than 800,000 acres of public lands, including 42 state parks, 11 state forests, more than 50 historic sites and 122 wildlife management areas visited by over 18 million people a year, funding camping facilities, habitat restoration, boating and fishing access, historic building stabilization and road and bridge repairs; $26.325 million for Blue Acres acquisitions, the voluntary buyout program that since 1995 has completed more than 1,250 residential buyouts across 50 municipalities, preserving approximately 440 acres of flood-prone land; $11.825 million for Green Acres state land acquisition protecting land around critical water supplies and connecting wildlife habitat; and $7.663 million for Green Acres nonprofit development projects, with five nonprofits receiving non-matching grants.
'The approval of these funds by the independent Garden State Preservation Trust delivers on Governor Sherrill's mission to protect critical water supplies, enhance natural resources, support recreational opportunities for everyone, and make New Jersey more resilient to the effects of storms and flooding,' said DEP Deputy Commissioner Joe Seebode. Nonprofit projects include $227,000 for the American Battlefield Trust to restore historic fencelines at Princeton Battlefield State Park, $3 million for the Friends of NJ School of Conservation to restore its 240-acre campus within Stokes State Forest, $2.994 million for The Nature Conservancy's Hyper Humus marsh restoration in the Paulinskill River Wildlife Management Area, $689,265 for the Washington Crossing Park Association's forest and meadow restoration, and $388,635 for the Whitesbog Preservation Trust's historic garden rehabilitation. Since 1961, the Green Acres Program has protected more than 725,000 acres of open space.
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图片来源：新泽西州普林斯顿战场州立公园（资料图，本轮Green Acres非营利补助含该园历史围栏修复项目）。Famartin 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Princeton Battlefield State Park in New Jersey (file photo; this Green Acres round includes fencing restoration at the park). Photo by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
