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- The New Jersey Pinelands is a million acres of forests, farms and scenic towns.
- Native Americans inhabited the NJ Pinelands region 10,000 years ago.
- The Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer, one of the world’s largest underground water supplies lies beneath the Pinelands' sandy surface.
- Enough water lies underneath the Pinelands to cover all of New Jersey with ten feet of water.
- No point in the Pinelands is more than 1.5 miles away from a stream.
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- The Pinelands is home to more than 90 plant and animal species threatened with extinction in New Jersey.
- The United Nations has designated the Pinelands as an International Biosphere Reserve, one of only 47 in the United States.
- The Pinelands is the second most fire prone area in the United States and many trees have pine cones that won’t open and disperse seeds unless they are burned.
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- Scientists are still not sure why the Pine Plains, the largest pygmy pine forest in the country, contains full grown trees shorter than a person.
- General George Washington’s army was supplied with cannon and shot from a bog iron industry that flourished in the Pinelands for a hundred years.
- The Pinelands is home today to New Jersey ’s blueberry and cranberry industries, which rank second and third in the nation.
- More than 700,000 people live in and around the Pinelands, yet it contains vast, unbroken tracts of forest.
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