Signatures

• Kathleen Jones

  Protect the advancement of any developments. The natural environment needs to stay intact for ever!!!

• Paul Williams

• Sydney Pluta

• logan penna

  We are currently living in a human-caused environmental apocalypse which is causing a trophic cascade resulting in massive extinctions as direct consequence of human over-consumption, pollution, biodiversity loss and general extractive, oppressive and exploitative practices driven solely by greedy, wealth and power-addicted corporate desires to increase profit at all costs which is not in line with human needs, sustainability or environmental concerns, given that we live within a closed system with finite resources, and infinite growth is simply not a feasible, logical or viable course of action. We need to STOP destroying nature immediately otherwise we will all die because the planet will no longer be able to support us and there is no amount of technology to make any other planets livable habitats, not to mention that is a reckless and irresponsible way to avoid facing centuries of wanton disregard for balance in ecosystems and the consequences resulting thereof.

• Don Woods

  Action is needed now to stop Pinelands Development.

• Dean Poinsett

  Will you retards running this state drop the greed for one minute, and do what's right for once.

• Anthony Ivankovic

  The Pinelands need to be preserved.

• Frederick Smith

  We need more Pinelands Forest Area! Way too much illegal immigration in New Jersey destroying our roads and communities -- they don't pay taxes but WE do!

• Danielle Ginchereau

  I love Black Run Preserve. My partner and I walk the trails often with our dog, who loves it too. We’ve been there in every season, and I couldn’t possibly decide which is my favorite because every hike through it feels calming and magical.

• Sophia Cardin

• LESLIE COHEN

  We need tp protect clean water , air, quiet spaces and forests not build more houses .

• Joanne Perry

  It is important to preserve the Pinelands for the health of our state and all its inhabitants.

• Steve Kokol

  Environment

• Cindy Mellitz

  Preservation. Love hiking with my dog here.

• Bob Snyder

• Emily MacGrath

• Morgan Gerace

• Shannon Winkler

  I grew up in Marlton walking these woods and still go back for that reason. We also are looking for a home in the area because we love the quiet and being in nature. It diversifies the town of Marlton and it’s a beautiful peaceful place that’s hard to find in an area that has become so developed as it is. To destroy this area is destroying part of the heart of Evesham.

• Laura MacMullen

  This is an incredible space that brings me and my family peace and solitude in nature

• Gayle DiTullio

  Any elected official not fighting to preserve open space in Nj is not fighting for the people and should be voted out

• Jesse Cave

  Stop over development of the Pinelands!

• Roy Seneca

• David Love

  I love Earth!

• Charles Caruso

• Ian Reutlinger

  this area needs to be protected.

• DANA ROACH

  We love this little nature preserve. We actually got married there! Let’s keep it for everyone to enjoy and the animals to live.

• Rachel Lutz

  This beautiful area should not be developed.

• Doug Billings

• Allison Haselton

  preserve the land for the animals!

• Katie Tomlinson

• Ken Depasquale

  We love the pinelands in our area. Black run is a place for my kids to run and have fun in nature.

• Nicholas Sorce

• Rebecca Smith

• Carolyn Marley

  Dave the Black Run preserve

• Jennifer Kraft

• Carlyn Perlow

  I want our pinelands protected from development. It is an ecosystem like no other in the world and the only space in New Jersey free from development, and it should stay that way

• Nichole Hoffman

  The Pinelands needs our protection against pollution of our pristine aquifer, protection of the unique and rare biome, protection from human caused forest fires, protection for our rare and endangered species. Building a development will endanger all of the protections we need in the Pinelands. Do not allow this development tobe built. Thank you.

• Karen McGowan

  I so treasure the beautiful natural serenity of the Black Run Preserve where I often hike and run. The proposed development would destroy this natural gem, enjoyed by so many, and accessible from an already overdeveloped suburbia. Think of the long-term benefits of preserving this land, and not the short-term profits of such development. Thank you, Karen McGowan

• Elizabeth Esposito

  Protect our natural resources

• Pam Phelps

  We DO NOT need anymore homes. Our drinking water is part of the Kirkwood Cohancy aquifer! There is too much native area that will be damaged!!

• Payton Pizzurro

  America is evil

• Tracy Goodman

  Our undeveloped lands are a treasure and need to remain AS they are!

• Juan A. Salas

  Protect Black Run

• Jerry Tritt

  I’ve been coming here for years. Love bike riding and xc skiing at Black Run. It’s one of the best places to go in the area. Stop the development.

• Jack Natalini

  I value nature and open space more than lost habitat, increased traffic, and strain on infrastructure.

• Frances Trethan-Levering

  There is to much building going on now in South Jersey and is ruining our preserves. The animals have some rights too and should be protected as well as their habitats.

• Salvatore Fardella

  Protect Back Run

• Patricia Kelly Patricia Kelly

  Protection of our wildlife.

• Jennifer Whitehead

• Jim James

  I have enjoyed this natural area. It is very important to the health of all people in the area (air quality, water quality, wildlife, mental health, future generations enjoyment, physical health etc)

• Caron Salkin

  It is vital to preserve these lands for the stability of the ecosystem.

• Doreen Clark

  protect wildlife and water resources

• April Jaruszewski

  We need to preserve this area that is home to many forms of wildlife. We do not need more houses

• David Hamilton

  Protect this valuable headwater area. No development.

• Sabrina Gomez

• Nikole Kithcart

  Love for the pines

• Anna Hart

• dana v

  nature

• Valerie Brown

  Need to protect the Black Run preserve! Stop developing on precious land and resources! Enough development! It’s out of control in Evesham and Mount Laurel where I live! Animals’ homes and nature being destroyed! It’s heartbreaking! It needs to stop!

• Stephanie Sapio

  Destruction of land, increased traffic congestion and air pollution in the town. Loss of habitat for plants, trees and animal and loss of natural beauty of the town.

• Margaret Harbison

  Please rezone Black run has Pine land forest to protect our wildlife and headwaters

• Thomas Otto

  All this building has got to stop, especially in the pinelands. We cannot not afford any development in the Pinelands.

• Cynthia Gallagher

  To stop development in our region.

• Helen Disandro

  Can't keep taking away environmental sensitive areas

• Elizabeth Bush

  To protect our most valuable and vulnerable resources.

• Rachael DeFeo

  To preserve the land, it’s animals and to give the town an undisturbed space to enjoy the outdoors.

• Patricia Hansen

  Stop the development of the Black Run Preserve in Evesham Township!!

• Marijane Michalowicz

  I support rezoning of Black Run Preserves as “Pinelands Forest Area” to protect land, wildlife & keep eco system healthy. Thank u!

• Nina Speart

  Stop the development of the Black Run Preserve in Evesham Township!!

• Aslan Basol

  Protecting headwaters is vital to the overall health and safety of the surrounding and any downstream areas. Destroying 778 acres to build 270 homes comprises of erasing much-needed flood control and already endangered native species. We live in a time where we understand that destroying habitats like these and replacing them with lawns, pavement, and non-native plants is causing more severe weather events and dangerous for people and property. Knowing what we know, why approve the destruction of this habitat? For a short-term profit, we are guaranteed to see more intense flooding and further loss of native species. At each crossroads, we continue to take the wrong turn and wonder why someone did not make the right decision before. Now is an opportunity to avoid further destruction by protecting the Black Run Preserve. Making the right decision here means telling our future generations that we saved this area that would otherwise be erased forever.

• Anisha Chaudhari

  Wildlife habitat and natural recreational resources for the community should not have to be sacrifice for more housing for investors.

• Kathryn Newell

  To stop the development of Black Run Preserve. We need to protect the Pinelands and the Black Run Preserve, the wildlife are drinking water in protecting our bio resources to ensure we keep this watershed and the water had forest intact. This is why we develop the preserves in the first place. I hope the Pie Lands commission will realize that their Jarvis to protect these critical lands and forest areas from development.

• Karen Isky

  The reserve is one of the few pristine areas we have left. Biodiversity and the health of our planet depend on good stewardship, not development

• Michelle Greaney

  Getting to rediscover our Pine Barrens through another’s eyes who moved to our state and never experienced the wonders of our great state like the Pine Barrens has left me in awe. That we have places like the Black Run preserve that are still here. To take away any part of a preservation for only a select few is unconscionable. It was made and preserved for all to enjoy. The protection of the land and our water is and needs to remain open space for the wildlife, the water, and for all people to enjoy and respect. Once it is gone, there is no way to get more wild land. This must be protected at all costs! I grew up in Ocean county and live in Atlantic County and have been able to roam our pine barrens to exercise, to fish, to learn about the history of our great state and treasures like Black Run preserve. They must remain protected and free for generations!

• Richard Schuler

  I enjoy the Pinelands in South Jersey very much.

• Brianna DeFalco

  Our forests are disappearing at an alarming rate and I as a citizen of this beautiful state will not stand for it

• Sharon Bennett

  We have more than enough ugly McMansions in this area. Protect the Pinelands and the wildlife that call it home.

• Deborah MacBride

  We need to protect our water and animals from anymore encroachment.

• Robert D Williams

  Save the Black Run watershed and headwaters

• Karen Le Morvan

  A fellow Lutheran alerted me to this petition - I am adding my name to ask that the state Pinelands Commission not rezone the Black Run Preserve to allow for development but instead continue to protect it, for the benefit of wildlife and the people who enjoy this beautiful area.

• Kaity Schlauer

• Chao Weng

  Protecting pinelands

• Yat Chan

• Jonathan Lahoda

  I support the amendment to redesignate the land at Black Run Preserve from rural development to protected forest to preserve the largest aquifer in Southern New Jersey (the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer) and protect wildlife.

• Samantha Bartels

  This is a wildlife preserve go build apartments and more shit we don’t need somewhere else

• Jesseca Bartels

  PROTECT THE WILDLIFE!!!!!

• Colleen DePietro

  PROTECT BLACK RUN PRESERVE!!

• John Carpino

  This area is critical for the local and overall ecosystem for southern New Jersey. It would be a crime to develop on this land. The area is named “a preserve“, let’s keep it preserved.

• River Atkinson

  Beautiful place to hike, frequently visted, doesnt deserve to be taken down

• Randi Gordon

  We must preserve the Rancocas Watershed in the Pine Barrens of  Evesham Township and protect it from development. The Pine Barrens is underlain by the Kirk-Cohnsey aquifer, one of the largest and purest aquifers in the eastern United States.  This aquifer provides drinking water for over a million people and is crucial for the region's water supply. That is nearly 18 trillion gallons of water! The Pinelands received International recognition as an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1988,recognizing its ecological importance.  We are blessed to live in this area and need to take responsibility to take good care of it. Prevent our land from more development!

• Kathleen Jackson

  Need to preserves this beautiful and unique open space forever! Make an unused strip mall into housing!!!

• Raymond Logue

  Black run has been one of my favorite spots to go to since moving to New Jersey with my family. I have taken my kids there. It is a treasure to the community and should be protected at all costs for future generations.

• Mary Clark

• Molly Powell

  This is a treasure to our area!!!

• Heather Stang

  This development project threatens the beautiful ecosystem that is the pine barrens, as well as our fresh water. This area is enjoyed by residents as an area for recreation, and should remain as such.

• Don Walden

  Once it’s gone it’s gone. Ruined for future generations. This will be a travesty if the development continues

• Melissa Cassara

  I have lived here for over 20 years. Chose Evesham for its school district and quaint feel. Now, we are bombarded with new development and horrific traffic. Our taxes and association fees are becoming untenable. Once my youngest graduates, I may move out of Marlton, despite my ties because of all of this development, traffic and higher taxes.

• Elisabeth Beasley

  Please protect the Pine Lands from further development!

• Kaitlyn Pelli

  We need to protect this undeveloped area of Evesham. We need to protect the wildlife and preserve the pine lands!

• Janet Rogers

  A 42 year resident unwilling to support more development of this beautiful area.

• Trinty Fauver

• Amy Bryan

  Protect Black Run Preserve

• Katrina McCormick

  I used to live near the preserve and development area. There’s so much wildlife near an otherwise suburban area. It NEEDS to be protected.

• Lauren O’Keefe

  Saving the environment

• Rebecca Housel

  To protect the wetlands/pine barrens at Black run preserve

• Kyle Smith

  Save our green spaces ?

• Martha Wright

  The headwater forests of the watershed are essential to the health, safety and well being of people, pets and wildlife. The impact on our watershed will be devastating. The state Pinelands Commission must rezone this vital acreage as Pinelands Forest Area to protect and preserve the watershed for this and future generations.

• Aleah Bilgrami

  This land feeds all of NJ and a large portion of Philadelphia. We don’t need more homes, we need less empty but owned ones

• Patricia Dalessio

  No more! Preserve this land!!

• Danielle Iapalucci

• Denise Sanders

• James Howell

  We need to preserve, value and protect the few remaining essential habitats like this, including its delicate resources and precious wildlife. It is not vacant.

• Denise Orovio

  Preserve this area for wild life. Too much developing in South Jersey.

• Kesha Martinez

  Protect the Pinelands.

• Stefanie Paravati

  stop ruining my planet.

• Cassie McTaggart

  this will have irreversible damage to our environment and community

• Melissa Khalil

• Darlene Brough

• Ric Medrow

  My family has been camping in the Pines for 30 years. It took political action by Governor Tom Kean to save the Pines from devastation by developers in the Eighties. It always takes brave political action. Who will be the heroes now? Or, will there be no heroes? Let me be clear. If my representatives to not do everything they can to makes sure that the Pines remain unravaged, they will not get my vote.

• John McLean

  I’m total against more building input already over run state. Go back into the cities and rebuild it up !!

• Aaron Goldstein

  Because these asshat Developers keep destroying all the wildlife and then everybody whines and cries when there's a deer in their yard or a raccoon or skunk or snakes because they have nowhere left to go let alone I enjoy hiking and kayaking and the peace and quiet of Mother Nature away from technology

• Kim Stinger

  We need to preserve the environment, not destroy it.

• jody d

  live next to here

• Nicole Slegaitis

  We've destroyed enough land in NJ. Please.

• Jasmine Swan

  Save the nature. We have enough buildings being put up.

• Casey Hewes-Eddinger

  The woods is better than another building!

• Victoria Scavetta

• Lisa Kehoffer

  Please don't build on Black Run.

• Geoffrey Taylor

  We must stop eliminating our natural resources and continue to preserve nature as a whole.

• Christina Culp

• Kristin Bowers

  To save the Preserve!

• Jon Nagle

  We love canoeing and hiking that area

• Eric Marshall

• John Gentless

• Alyxia Tomaszewski

  My fav place

• Madelaine Cohen

  I’m here to try and protect the Pinelands

• Monica Hopely

  The reason I am against the development of homes surrounding the Black Run Reserve is the consequences of wildlife being killed, water resources would be downgraded and the native wildlife would be displaced.

• Nina Hodoruk

  I hike here alone or with friends frequently. Along with being a sanctuary for people who know we need nature to thrive or merely exist, what about the resident nature that depends on this habitat to survive?

• Lawrence Markowitz

  Please protect this natural habitat in Black Run Preserve.

• David Parker

  Preservation of our green spaces.

• Sarah Ogletree

  My family and I Hike the preserve at least once a week, I would be devastated to see anything happen to it. It’s an important ecosystem in an ever populated and already over developed area.

• Alexandra Pannone

  Protect the wildlife!

• Gia Capozzoli

  animals

• John Hueber

  Love nature

• Ronald Pables

• Alexis Tzap

• Suzanne Cocuoo

  Hate to see the wildlife disrupted. Keep the Greenland

• Angie Pables

  We love walking the preserve!!

• John Pables

  i live here, we don’t need more expensive mansions. who even has the money to own them? a mansion was just bulldozed not even a few years ago, a very nice one, right next to laurel acres park. We already have a super walmart, a costco, huge highways, wawas every 3 miles, we don’t need more garbage infrastructure for losers to buy up.

• Jacqueline Nelson

  I support my friends and family whom live in the area!

• Barbara Lynn Pables

  Support the Pinelands

• Jenna Brodowski

  Protect the reserve

• Kevin Gallagher

  BRP has become a staple of my family for both exercise and appreciating nature. Housing development would represent nothing more than greed (there's houses on virtually every inch of Marlton already) at the expense of wildlife and nature. Don't destroy what little remaining allure this town has. -Kevin , Lara, Brynn, Brooke, Petey

• Luke Tonon

  The 778 acres slated for clearing sit atop the headwaters of Black Run Preserve, one of the last intact examples of the globally rare and beautiful Atlantic coastal pine-barrens ecosystem. Scientific surveys document endangered species such as the Pine Barrens Tree Frog, Northern Pine Snake, and Swamp Pink here. Bulldozing this forest for 270 houses would replace porous sand with pavement, pushing fertiliser-laden runoff into streams, degrading the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer that supplies our drinking water, and fragmenting habitat critical to 36 state-listed species. The Pinelands Commission should reject the current development application and complete the CMP amendment to permanently protect the Black Run headwaters.

• Jeffrey Liebman

  This proposal is dumb - 778 acres of forest to only build 270 homes that’s ridiculous.

• Bill Fisher

  I oppose any further development which would threaten the headwaters of Black Run Preserve. Development on this site needs to be environmentally sensitive to enhance adjacent natural areas rather than degrade them. There are precious few wild areas like Black Run Preserve along the Route 73 corridor.

• Nat Koller

  Because I believe in tomorrow.

• Steven Bookman

  This is a unique area that is ecologically beneficial for the residents of the entire region. Development can take place elsewhere but what currently exists there can never be replaced. This is important to many people and has more support than any local issue I’ve seen in as far as I can remember. Politicians who end up on the wrong side of this important and highly visible issue will not be remembered kindly by their one-time constituents.

• Kim Krawczyk

  I moved to this community for the wildlife and the fact that this area respected nature. We do NOT need any more housing. We often use Black Run for hikes and appreciate having nature so nearby.

• Tom Stevenson

• Shanti Wilmoth

• Jessica Kaplan

  I live next to the proposed development regions and highly oppose work in this area. I value the space as is as it is part of the reason I bought my home in this area. The New Jersey Pinelands Commission should rezone these critical lands as “Pinelands Forest Area”, which would prevent the destruction of hundreds of acres of forest and the pollution of the watershed.

• Kevin Mcfadden

  Don’t want it

• Jacob Logeren

• Anna Buss

  Protect the pine barrens!

• Catherine Girini

  Fix the housing we already have instead of killing our fucking trees

• Tony Ph.D., Award Winning Global Sustainable Ag & Non-Crop Expert

  It is my great inspiration to providing our love and care to preserving our wonderful most needed loving Pinelands!

• Denise S Schafer

  Just stop. Take a walk in the woods.

• Christine Jenkins

  New Jersey doesn’t need any more of its land being destroyed by financial greed! We certainly don’t need any more humans inhabiting places that animals reside!

• Hazel Dennison

  The impact of losing this area will effect the current land and water structures in place. Rezoning of this land to allow more homes in this area -would be devastating.

• Rosemary Iannuzzi

  We need to protect the endangered wildlife in this area

• Michelle Serdynski

• John Ruszin III

  We don’t need more homes and congestion there are tons of vacant shopping centers and old warehouses that can be made into homes without destroying our neighborhoods, environment and quality of life

• Heather Noble

  To Protect our water & wildlife.

• Geraldine Leader

  Concerned about our environment and the preservation of open space and the impact of traffic on the roads

• Mary Ventresca-Tiver

  Let's save the natural wonder that is The Garden State

• bruce rasbold

  save our pinelands from trump and his cronies

• Jessica Orsini

• Tina Franzoni

  I believe in the Cause.

• Kyle Underwood

  Out of concern for the environmental impacts that will affect the immediate community as well as surrounding communities that do not have a say in the matter.

• Heather Bosch

  Because I love this state and want to preserve its beautiful nature for my children to love too.

• Melanie Shandroff

  Preservation is mandatory!

• Anthony Bellano

• Olivia Bellano

  We don’t need more mansions, we need more natural spaces!!

• David Zimmerman

  I want to protect my water. And the nature that surrounds us in this region,

• Rachel Gabor

  Irreversible damage for profit is not what NJ needs. Keep protecting for the betterment of all. Do the right thing, please.

• Rebecca Siorek

  Enough with nuisance development and destruction of open space

• Kamila Saloková

• Eric Neumann

  Protect the environment

• Sara Vahdatshoar

  New Jersey contains many unique habitats, such as the Pine Barrens, that sustain an incredible amount of biodiversity and invaluable biological processes (carbon sequestration, water filtration, wildlife refuge, critical bird migration habitat, erosion/flood management, etc.). Overdevelopment in areas such as Black Run Preserve lessens the ability for Philadelphia and New Jersey to recover from the increasing frequency of costly and damaging storms/floods. Because this area is historically a wetland, any development/homes will be majorly affected by flooding. Property in floodplains and historic wetlands are increasingly not covered by insurance, leading to not only the eventual destruction of any development occurring, but also negating the purpose of developing of this area. Please reconsider developing this and maintain its protections.

• Meghan Oliva

  The choice is simple- it’s between life and death. Which do you choose?

• Erin Jamison

• Brian Raudenbush

  This is a sacred part of NJ!! DO NOT TURN OUR NATURE INTO MORE DEVELOPMENTS!

• Izzy Cerak

• Judith Catanesye

  Protecting our wetlands

• Kennedy Culmer

• Julie Foering

  Please don’t destroy such a beautiful place. Many people camp here and explore this area. The pine barrens have an interesting history and their legacy shouldn’t be cut short for pavement, stores , and houses , we have plenty of that in south jersey already.

• Joseph LaFond

• Bryant Niederriter

  Protect Nature!

• Cory Rearick

  Access to nature is vital! Not everything needs to be housing and businesses. Leave nature trails alone! We need more nature trails!

• Paige Carman

• Tanvi Nallani

  To preserve wetlands

• Jenna Steele

  We need to leave nature alone. The catastrophic chain of events that will occur down the line is not worth some dumb condos that 60% of New Jersey can't afford anyway. We want nature, we want quiet, we want peace, we want ANIMALS. We don't need development on crucial land. The government needs to pull their pants up and find another solution. We don't throw tax dollars at them to have them destroy our amenities and our forests, yet that's what seems to be happening. It's time to stop, please. This is ridiculous.

• Mike Bodenberger

  We must protect our critical ecosystems from commercialization.

• Alicia Scott

  I grew up in Medford, NJ and have always felt a deep love for the pine barrens. It is so important that we protect what land is left as developers continue to destroy vital NJ ecosystems

• William Saidel

  Shakespeare wrote, “let’s kill all the lawyers” We should say, “let’s castrate all the developers”. Why? Because they have no appreciation for nature and its necessity for human survival. Only the dollar now! Save the BWP and let the developers redevelop decayed urban areas.

• Elana Katz Rose

• Fiona Land

  Protection of wetlands and critical habitat

• Susanne Munn

  Against building homes on black run preserve

• Koda Steadman

  Save the pinelands

• Gail Grivois

  Preservation of biodiversity

• Mary Robinson

  Summered near the Pine Barrens my whole childhood. This green space, its many creatures and plants must be preserved for their own sake, and for the planet’s benefit.

• Lisa Mahoney

  Climate protection

• Katarina Cuellar

• David Temple

  Protect and preserve the Pinelands Forest Area

• Rebecca Padgett

• Erin Schiereck

  It is so important to protect our resources

• Maria Andrianos

  Black Run is one of the best nature parks South Jersey has to offer. There are so many outdoor enthusiasts here in South Jersey who enjoy this park daily/weekly; it would be absolutely devastating to see it developed over.

• Philip Andrianos

  Black run is a beautiful wildlife area!

• Ron Ornowski

  The state Pinelands Commission NEEDS TO rezone these critical lands as “Pinelands Forest Area” which would prevent the destruction of hundreds of acres of forest and the pollution of the watershed. “Just Do It”

• Jennifer Sullivan

  Live in south Jersey and we have always been told by everyone to protect the Pinelands. Stop putting money before the best interest of the whole state.

• Jessica Klein

  It’s vital to preserve this preserve

• Nancy May

  To protect nature it's beautiful

• Ashley Groza

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• Asha Quinn

  Black Run has a great hiking trail and I would hate to see it destroyed by development

• Jesse Coffey

  I am signing to prevent further disruption to our fragile ecological/environmental parts of the state. There is already plenty of rural farmland that can be purchased and rezoned for residential construction. We do not need to interrupt and destroy areas of our woodlands that are important for maintaining a healthy ecosystem in a densely populated state.

• Travis Xavier Elwood

  Keep our forests

• William Eichele

  I'm a local that loves nature. This state already has enough urban and industrial pollution. We need nature preservations like this to keep us close to our humanity and the beauty of our earth.

• Kevin Gutelius

  Keep as is, it’s beautiful

• Stephanie Biddle

• Jennifer Robinson

  More nature needs to preserved and protected from development.

• Deserie Druce

• Stephanie Weirauch

  Protect our neighboring natural habitat for wildlife and ecosystem

• Chris Fleischmann

  This is a vital water resource to New Jersey residents and wildlife. Any alteration or construction will cause permanent damage to water quality from the headwaters all the way to the Delaware River. This land needs to be protected from development.

• Matt Hudspeth

  Build ugly houses somewhere else.

• Krystle Szot

• Susan Beatrice

  We desperately need critical habitats to be preserved.

• Ann Sierra

  Let’s preserve the land!!

• Joseph Pone

  #saveblackrun, I don't want my children looking around town for stuff to do and only seeing condos and strip mall!!

• dillan bobrofsky

  I have seen the Burlington county agricultural center sell it's farmland for condos. I have seen marne highway littered with DR Horton popsicle stick houses, and I have seen farmland in Columbus and Florence sold to create warehouses that sit there unoccupied with a "for lease" sign out front for YEARS. NJ, the state I grew up in, is slowly become NOT the garden state with all the warehouses and condos. We must come together as a community and a state to stop this from happening. We have already lost too much green space in the last decade. Save black run!!

• Rikki Rosini

  To preserve black run and our woods

• elisa waller

  i live here the pinelands are an important part of our environment. We have enough condominiums and Apartments. Save our Land, let us stay connected with our nature

• Sarah Colvin

  Building anything on the Pinelands is a disgrace. Wetlands are vital to preventing major flooding (please refer to all the recent flooding everywhere). Does anyone understand what sustainability is? What it actually means? Protecting the environment for FUTURE generations to continue to thrive with the necessary resources. That means refurbishing already developed spaces. Don’t you want you grandchildren to live a happy, healthy life? They will not be able to with your greed clouding your judgement. The climate is changing rapidly and we need to keep up. We the people cannot do this by simply “living clean”. We the people need to remove corporations and people who only care for themselves and destroy what little we have left of this Earth. This should have never hit the table, whoever agreed to this should be ashamed of themselves.

• Raquel Donahue

  As a local we use the Black Run Preserve for recreation, walking path.

• Benjamin Sudano

• Hajah Buchanan Carpenter

• Chris Gunderson

  A no brainier to keep land and habitats that contribute to our ecosystem preserved from greedy developers.

• Eric Magers

• Heather Henderson

• Daniel Campano

  Preserving nature in the state, giving folks a place to enjoy the outdoors, and saving the wildlife that lives there. Shame on these people for selling us out!

• Jennifer Welch

  I use the preserve and live in the area!

• Elon Stein

  It is important for our society, community, and all people living to New Jersey to protect it’s nature

• Joe Reidl

  This is like my backyard, I don't want some outsider asshat getting rich while they deprive our community of a shared resource

• Eileen Smith

  The redesignation of the Black Run watershed from a rural development area to a Forest Area is necessary to protect the land against habitat destruction and water and air pollution. The forest also maintains an infiltration area that is essential to New Jersey, considering recent droughts and the importance of stable groundwater levels. Endangering Black Run Preserve through possible development not only damages the habitat of countless organisms but also disrupts the peace the preserve aims to provide. Preventing the area from being redesignated into a Forest Area is ecologically dangerous to the health of the preserve and to the animals of Black Run. It is also a step back from the progress that black run has made since its initial preservation in 2004. It is the community's job to protect Black Run because although nature is resilient, its resilience undoubtedly weakens beneath destructive human actions. Black Run is a preserve for a reason and the preserve itself and the area around it are to be respected, not destroyed for profit. Thank you.

• Kristina Bellamy

  Please save black run preserve. Climate changes are quickening upon our state and saving this preserve is crucial.

• Melody Hicks

  We need as much preserved land as possible right now. This area is critical for ecological health in NJ.

• Joe Corleto

  I have lived in Kings Grant for 18 years and continue to enjoy the out door opportunities Black Run Preserve has to offer. I addition to the obvious environmental benefits provided by unspoiled land filled with wetlands.

• Kiersten Zinnikas

  I want to see this land continue to be preserved and not developed.

• Valerie Rey

  As a New Jersey citizen that is passionate about protecting all the wonderful plants and animals of this state, I feel that It is our job as human beings to empathize and reason for those who can’t. That’s why the Pine Barrens can’t be destroyed, such bulldozing would not only destroy irreplaceable habitat but also lead to polluted runoff, disrupted floodplains, and lost wildlife corridors that could never be fully restored.

• Catherine Smith

• margo pellegrino

  we must protect our headwaters and our natural world--we do NOT need more McMansions covering up permeable woodlands in NJ, and further decimating our wild places

• Christina Breen

• Kevin Hill

  To preserve the lineman’s from development

• Patrice Hill

  To preserve the pinelands

• Jessica Dunlap

• Sean Holland

• Gabriella Mesce

  NJ is overdeveloped already, and these homes will not help with the affordable living crisis in the state.

• Megan Cross

  To protect the wild life and stop over developing in New Jersey

• Chuck Gotmley

• Catherine Bovino

  I respect the natural beauty of this planet, and recognize the need to preserve it.

• Elizabeth Markus

• Donna McGill

  Protection

• Kathy Keane

  It is ecologically wrong for the area. Traffic would make the area undesirable and wreak havoc. Disturbance/destruction of wildlife, forest and peaceful nature of the area would be destroyed.

• Vanessa Garcia

  We are already seeing the devastating effects of climate change in our state. Everyday I see more trees being knocked down throughout the state. We see increased flooding and we can’t continue to ignore the consequences of destroying important ecosystems in our state. It affects the wild life, our water and everyone’s well being.

• Linda Wright

  We need to preserve nature. It brings peace and hope to a lost world that is so consumed with greed.

• Denise Gormley

• Kristofor Anderson

  My family frequently hikes or rides our bikes in the preserve. Too many houses and not enough open space, so this space needs to be preserved!

• Ryann Gray

  Preserving the environment is important.

• April Fisher

  Save it

• Charles Werbany

  Black Run is a New Jersey treasure. There is no point in building McMansions and dig up a PRESERVE!

• Steve Agliano

• Wendy Agliano

  We need to protect our land from mass building!

• Linda MacGregor

  This is a preserve. We want it preserved. Go build somewhere else!

• Shannon Dix

• Elias Knoll

• Alexandra Kindred

  Ecological preservation is my top priority in life. I myself worked for a land conservation organization and learned all about the importance of nature. If this bill passes, endangered species native to this local area will suffer.

• Elizabeth Renaud

  Black Run is an oasis in a sea of Route 73 development. Please preserve it and its headwaters for future generations.

• Michael Howley

  Traffic is way to heavy in this Marlton area already and most importantly my family loves to hike and ride the trails there over the past 17 yrs.

• Robert Hoffman

  Black Run is a treasure that should be protected and expanded.

• Megan Wright

  Save the beautiful nature trails!

• Conor Kelly

  The black run reserve is a staple of the community. It is a place where all eveshamians go to be one with nature that is not far off the beaten path. To replace the Black run reserve would diminish the community's uniqueness and touch of serenity in the suburbs of Philadelphia. To desecrate it with a concrete jungle would destroy the flair and charm Evesham has. All new jersey towns have strip malls and apartment buildings but not all have a slice a nature.

• Shawn Lange

  Protect the head waters. More housing not needed.

• Tiffany Nagy

  Pine barrens are land to be saved not developed

• Lauren Cannon

  The Pine Barrens are why I'm proud to be from New Jersey. Protect the Headwaters!

• Andrew Szczurek

  To protect the Black Run Preserve The roadways Are Not designed to handle .ore traffic

• Adam Wright

  I don’t want anyone to build on this beautiful land.

• Jennifer Lange

  I love Black Run and have enjoyed many hikes there with my son. It is important to protect the areas around it to ensure the environment is protected. And really? More development? More homes? More traffic? Totally unnecessary. Keep the woods.

• casee sansevere

  SAVE THE PLANET. We do not need more homes or property. we need greenery, and life.!

• Chad Evers

  I love this place

• Cooper Lange

  I’ve been hiking at Black Run for half a decade and don’t want to see it destroyed. The Pinelands is a delicate and unique ecosystem that needs to be protected from senseless development. Furthermore, real estate developers inefficient and incompetent at their alleged jobs. They use cookie-cutter blueprints and rarely if ever do proper load calculations and energy optimization for the homes they build. The HVAC ducts will certainly be miss-sized and the contractors they hire would be far from the best. To replace a beautiful natural wetland with some poorly cobbled together mansions that’ll be falling apart and unlivable in within the next 50-100 years is despicable.

• Heather Paulson

  I love nature

• mark midura

  I love this preserve and am worried about irresponsible building and irreversible damage.

• Gail Murray

  Preserve the headwaters and add them to the Black Run area.

• Micah MacColl Nicholson

  My family has a cabin corporation in the Pine Barrens of NJ, and I do not approve as someone who is financially responsible for land in the state, of developing this land and harming local ecology.

• Amanda DiGiovanni

  We have too many people in Marlton. Not enough land for animals and we need the trees!!!! Stop building!!

• Steven Jones

  Protect the pinelands and headwater forests!

• Jeffrey Hsu

  I wish to show my support for preserving the open space and wildlife in our area for my family and future generations

• William Sommerich

  preserving the land

• Devon Gohde

  No more overdevelopment in NJ

• Jessica Wyatt

  Conservation is so important to our dwindling forest and resources

• Carol Gray

  I believe we need to protect our environment and help keep this area in its current state.

• Matthew Angermayr

  I am passionate about all lands being preserved for future generations. I may not be from New Jersey, and I still want to show my support for the areas at risk across the country.

• Chris Gray

  I'd like to see the Black Run Preserve rezoned into a Pineland Forest Area, similar to what Medford Township had done.

• Jean Mulhall

  I do not want any more Pineland built on. No more homes in marlton!!

• Robert Boyd

  I want to protect the pine barrens!

• Kayleigh Howarth

  To preserve what little nature we have left in this state

• Wanda Robinson

  Stop killing wildlife and our environment for the whims of RICH people to stay rich.

• Sarah Arif

• Frances Parker

• Kathy Z Pritz

  Our few remaining natural areas need to be preserved! Too damn much development in NJ and especially Burlington County as it is

• Julia Falchetta

• Molly Whitehead

  We need to protect our forests and wildlife. If more space is needed for homes, invest the money into restoring olderand foreclosed homes. We do not need more cookie cutter houses in NJ

• Deborah E Newman

  My family has lived in Evesham Township for more than 100 years and we need to preserve the Pinelands area and not build more homes.

• Dale Hwang

  As flooding gets more frequent, storms get more violent, and weather gets hotter, reservoirs of nature like this are increasingly critical for the wellbeing of all of us. Development doesn't just destroy the local ecosystem and increase risk of polluted water. Development seriously impares the land's ability to absorb floodwater and bleed off heat. Those trees help control erosion while significantly cooling the area. Subdivisions and asphalt compact and block the soil from draining while becoming ovens in comparison. While I would argue this from a perspective of biodiversity and conservation, those who wish to profit off developing this land won't care. Instead, consider that this land is much more valuable intact as a buffer against the weather we are already experiencing. And as a person living in a municipality with human e.coli contamination in one of the waterways serving the residents, this is not a problem anyone wants.

• Alyssa Azzinaro

  I want to protect this vital piece of land that is necessary for the preservation of the wildlife snd waterways in this area of New Jersey.

• Mikayla Register

• Ian Taylor

  To protect wildlife and wildlands

• Jeannine Puliti

  The Pinelands flora and fauna should be protected in the Black Run Preserve in Evesham Township. It is a critical headwater area for the southwest branch of the Rancocas Creek which provides wildlife habitate and is a recreational resource for thousands of people. Headwater forests of the watershed are needed to maintain clean water, fresh air, quiet spaces and native wildlife.

• Frances Mountney

  To keep the pinelands from the greedy politicians and builders

• Robert Yanus

  Preserving open space for us and future generations

• Kristy Gallo

  Continuing to destroy our ecosystems is going to leave us literally no life left to live. This habitat is not just for birds and beavers, it’s a critical key to maintaining life for humans as well, water to sustain our life, and clean air to breathe. Quit being so selfish. This is not yours to take and profit from. We cannot drink and breathe money.

• Steve Van

  NJ is being over run.

• Marie Mennel

  See so many apartments, single family homes and warehouses that are vacant and wild life habitats destroyed. We need a balance and our beautiful state is being destroyed. We need our pine lands.

• Janis Knoll

  Preserve the Kettle Run Road forested 788 acres from development. Protect the headwaters of the Pinelands.

• Yury Lauterbach

  Have developers not destroyed enough land? Have they not bulldozed through enough habitats to built cheaply made yet barely affordable (and unsustainable) housing? Do they not realize that with the death of the environment, that we, too will die? Protect New Jersey’s natural wetlands and forests. So much has already been taken for corporate greed and unnecessary pollution. Additionally, there are already so many empty homes in New Jersey. Instead of destroying more land, we should be focusing on renovating and preserving what we already have.

• Devyn Monahan

• Paige Dellafave

  We must preserve our land to prosper, not to build more houses

• Mikela Lamarca

• Mark Valenski

  Project NJ nature!

• Camilla L.

  Save the area from the devastation for wildlife and to preserve the beautiful forests of the Black Run Preserve. We do not need anymore empty warehouses nor McMansions in this area.

• Laura Trust

  should rezone these critical lands as “Pinelands Forest Area”, which would prevent the destruction of hundreds of acres of forest and the pollution of the watershed.

• Sierra Walk

  As a state our main priority should be quality of life. Tearing down a major asset to our states ecosystem would be detrimental to quality of life in our state. New Jerseyans should be proud to protect its forests.

• Wayne Kuehner

• Tony Pellegrino

  This area is a recreational space, enjoyed by many in the community…losing it will be a disappointment to our existing citizenry. Losing this space would be a detractor to what makes this area a nice place to live.

• Joe Capasso

  We’re tired of private equity bulldozing our nature and taking advantage of our communities.

• Louise Riccobene

• April Bennett

  To see the destruction of a PROTECTED piece of land truly breaks my heart. We are already low areas untouched by human development and I personally can not sit back and watch this happen.

• Kee Forbes

  I have been going to Black Run Preserve to hike, bike, and enjoy the beauty of the woods very close to my home. NJ needs this for the good of the community!

• Barbara Walsh

  We need to protect the Pinelands from development. We can’t keep destroying all of nature left in NJ and not expect to be extremely detrimental.

• John Forbes

  My family enjoys biking and hiking in the park and we want it to stay like it is. We need to protect the surrounding area and limit development of forests headwaters.

• Susan Kogel

  Save the pinelands it’s imperative we save forest area for wildlife. People need to live in communities we already have. Clean up our cities where there are services.

• Duke Rizzo

  Tired of the “Building out” of NJ by our current state gov ! Multiple dwelling saturation of OUR state lands

• Stephen Guysick

  Tell these developers to go somewhere else

• Gerry Krieg

• Kim Zoccali

  This land is protected for a reason. How can this be overturned for someone to make money. Our ecosystem is being destroyed in this state. Protection is protection for a reason, don’t overturn what was set in place.

• Andrew Aiello

  This is a valued recreational area which cannot be replaced as well as being a preserve.

• Cindy Huf

  This township desperately needs an area that is preserved.

• Matthew Cunha

  As a resident of New Jersey I want nothing more than to preserve as much of the biodiversity of this state as possible. Not to mention the importance of greenlands such as the Pinelands which help reduce carbon emissions as well as serve as a site where people can escape from the suffocating urban environments we call home.

• Christa Ruppert

  STOP over developing our state, killing all our wildlife and natural spaces for money!!!

• Debra Muller

  STOP over developing our state, killing all our wildlife and natural spaces for GREED.

• Madeline Picard

  WE DO NOT NEED MORE DEVELOPMENTS. DEVELOP WHAT HAS BEEN MADE AND IS NOW DILAPIDATED. STOP RUINING THE BEAUTY OF NJ. WE DO NOT WANT TO BE CALIFORNIA

• Rachael Poinsett

  We don't need more overdevelopment in this state. Please stop building over every square inch in New Jersey!

• Thomas Pape

  Preserving large tracks of pinelands is essential. This developer bought land cheap with the idea to ram though an approval and make a killing.

• Dominika Krajíčková

  We need to save the nature. Can’t allow them to destroy it.

• Ashley Aiello

  This must be stopped.

• Fran Moore

  We must protect our land and wildlife habitat now before it's too late!!

• Rebecca Carey

  My grandparents lived in this area for a long time and its where my dad grew up. As a kid I visited every weekend. It's important to me to preserve the area's natural beauty

• Marisa Miller

  As someone who has enjoyed walking these beautiful trails, I would be sad to see this area repurposed. However, as a citizen of South Jersey, I am terrified of the continued demolition of natural lands. The fresh water is necessary for the plants, animals, and people of South Jersey. This area is meant to be natural lands, not concrete. The repressing of natural lands increases the effects of flooding and changing weather due to climate change.

• Lyla Mchugh

  save our planet.

• Alexis Ngo

  I HATE CAPITALISM

• Angela Klingenberg

  We need to protect the limited remaining habitats for our wildlife.

• Frank Klein

• Elizabeth Walsh

• Alana H

  i love the black run preserve

• koda chovit

• Amanda Starkey

• Kevin Evans

  I am concerned about the damage to the BRP that commercial and residential development may bring.

• Temi Alao

• Alexis Bernheimer

  I want to keep our wonderful hiking trails and wildlife.

• Michael Kurzeja

  I have hiked in the Black Run Preserve. That I could be walking in overcrowded NJ and feel like I transported to another time and place, where natured still ruled, was special. Too special, and far more special than yet another development. More land development, and let's face it, the real reason of more taxes, never improves the greater good.

• Cathleen Collison

  I want the open land kept open!! No homes on kettlerun.

• Nick Reed

  To preserve the natural beauty of my state

• Taylor Sholder

  SAVE THE PINE BARRENS

• Ryder Ferrante

• Catherine Smith

• emma mcCafferty

• Vanessa Marrocco

  Nature Preserves in New Jersey are integral to not only the beauty and importance of our state but the habitability. I have in NJ my entire life in New Jersey and since I was small I have felt deeply connected to the wildlife and nature centers that are not only local to me but state wide. Without these spaces we are stripping what little we have left for New Jersey's residents. I grew up going on long hikes with my family and friends. It breaks my heart that as a society we feel that it is more important to privatize and destroy gods gift of nature for monetary value and gain, when it is the only thing that is truly important to us as human beings. We need to as a society revaluate what is truly important in this world.

• Chelsea Lewis

  We gotta protect this planet, it's the only one we've got!!!

• Theresa Cummings

  Concerns for traffic, impact on our wells and school overcrowding and being underfunded .

• Katiey Rozzelle

  Destroying preserved land in order to fulfill a gluttonous money hungry agenda is the type of thing that would’ve put you in Dante’s Inferno. What good comes from more useless, overpriced, eco harming infrastructure? Nothing but money in greedy pockets. There’s more to life than money… like other lives, animal, bug, or human.

• Richard Gallo

  Save our Land, Save the Habitat for Animals, Save the right to have hikers, children seeing wildlife enjoying the environment! Save for our grandkids to see

• Zoey Wheeler

• Truly Joy

  Preserve the preserve.

• Colleen Huseby

  I was born and raised in NJ and grew up in this beautiful state. It is our responsibility to care for and protect our ecosystem and wildlife and prevent destruction. Do right by Black Run and preserve and protect!