. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ACGA MEETING. . (continued from page 4) relationship between agriculture and environmental concerns. EARLE HILL, cranberry grower and longtime Washington Township mayor (CRANBERRIES, June 1981), shared grower concerns over the Pinelands Management Plan with Secretary Brown. Always colorful. Hill's observations reflected the exasperation of coping for years with a limited budget in an effort to meet basic municipal needs. This is not an easy chore, said Hill, when 100 percent of Washington Township is in the Pine- lands Preservation
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ACGA MEETING. . (continued from page 4) relationship between agriculture and environmental concerns. EARLE HILL, cranberry grower and longtime Washington Township mayor (CRANBERRIES, June 1981), shared grower concerns over the Pinelands Management Plan with Secretary Brown. Always colorful. Hill's observations reflected the exasperation of coping for years with a limited budget in an effort to meet basic municipal needs. This is not an easy chore, said Hill, when 100 percent of Washington Township is in the Pine- lands Preservation Area and Wharton State Forest land and annually generates only 10 cents per acre in state tax payment. Other Pinelands municipahties find themselves in a similar situation. For example, 90 percent of Woodland Towmship is in the Preservation Area. More recent state acquisitions will pay annual taxes on a diminishing scale over a 13 year period and then cease. Hill scored the plan, saying: "This 13 year business is a lot of bunk! People who own a home will h&ve to make up the (tax) ; 'The Pinelands Commission is the most powerful thing ever created in New Jersey," Hill asserted. "Commission members made their own regulations, disregarding the wishes of the people they represent, and their actions result in confiscation through ; Hill urged individuals to write senators and congressmen, asking them to ease Pinelands regulations. "We don't want speculators or developers in Washington Township," he concluded. "However, we do want the right to allow famUy members of lifelong residents to build single family dwellings in the ; WILLIAM H. PARKHURST JR., member of the Pesticide Advisory Council, told growers that the impact of proposed pesticide revisions will be on applicators. He said: "The only thing growers are being asked to do is to notify beekeepers within half a mile of the area to be sp
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