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Wetlands provide high quality open space for recreation and tourism
Many of these values were not widely appreciated until the 1970s and 1980s. By then, more than half of the nation's wetlands were destroyed. The New Jersey freshwater wetlands program protects freshwater wetlands, and upland areas within 150 feet of wetlands (sometimes called "buffers"), from development which will impair the wetlands' ability to provide the values listed above.
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