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Fire plan would cut 2.4 million New Jersey Pinelands trees

New Jersey Forest Service Chief Todd Wyckoff stands amid small pine trees growing near larger ones in a section of Bass River State Forest in Bass River Township, N.J. on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. A recently approved plan will cut 2.4 million trees from the forest, most of them small, narrow trees, designed to remove fuel that could make wildfires worse. But environmentalists are split over the plan, with some calling it a tragic loss of trees that would otherwise store carbon in an era of climate change. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) A few large pine trees are surrounded by smaller ones in a section of Bass River State Forest in Bass River Township, N.J. on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. A recently approved plan will cut 2.4 million trees from the forest, most of them small, narrow trees, designed to remove fuel that could make wildfires worse. But environmentalists are split over the plan, with some calling it a tragic loss of trees that would otherwise store carbon in an era of climate change. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) A plan to cut 2.4 million trees from a section of Bass River State Forest in Bass River Township N.J., is aimed mainly at small, narrow trees, but also would include tall, matures trees like those shown on either side of a dirt road in this Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 photo. The plan is designed to remove fuel that could make wildfires worse, but environmentalists are split over the plan, with some calling it a tragic loss of trees that would otherwise store carbon in an era of climate change. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) Bill Zipse, a supervising forester with the New Jersey Forest Service, holds a pine cone in a section of Bass River State Forest in Bass River Township, N.J. on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. A recently approved plan will cut 2.4 million trees from the forest, most of them small, narrow trees, designed to remove fuel that could make wildfires worse. But environmentalists are split over the plan, with some calling it a tragic loss of trees that would otherwise store carbon in an era of climate change. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) Bill Zipse, a supervising forester with the New Jersey Forest Service, touches a small pine tree in a section of Bass River State Forest in Bass River Township, N.J. on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. A recently approved plan will cut 2.4 million trees from the forest, most of them small, narrow trees, designed to remove fuel that could make wildfires worse. But environmentalists are split over the plan, with some calling it a tragic loss of trees that would otherwise store carbon in an era of climate change. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)