(click here) for the Final Right-of-way Maintenance Plan 

(click here) for the Electric-transmission Right-of-way Maintenance Plan (GIS data)  

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          The Pinelands Commission developed an ecologically based right-of-way maintenance plan in cooperation with Rutgers University and representatives of the Board of Public Utilities, Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L), Atlantic City Electric (formerly Conectiv), and the New Jersey Endangered and Nongame Species Program (ENSP)

        
          
The photograph on the left is an example of a right-of-way that is maintained to have herbaceous ground cover and the right-of-way in the photograph on the right has succeeded to scrub-shrub habitat.

          The goal of the project is to prepare right-of-way (ROW) maintenance plans that create and maintain relatively stable and sustainable, early successional habitats that reflect characteristic Pinelands habitats, require minimal management, ensure transmission reliability and safety, and minimize the need for individual Pinelands permit reviews.  Rutgers University cooperators will inventory ROW management strategies used by the utilities, characteristic Pinelands early successional reference habitats, and managed habitat types found along transmission-line rights-of-way.  The inventories will provide the basis for evaluating existing management strategies and ROW conditions by comparing functional and structural attributes of managed and reference habitats and landscapes.  Recommendations for low-growth management methods and return intervals for different Pinelands vegetation types will be based on the evaluation.  Based on the recommended approaches, a dynamic Pinelands-wide program that describes the type, application, timing, and return interval of management strategies to be applied to each individual span will be prepared.