Here is a great article on the restoration taking place at South Mountain Reservation.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I can’t say enough about how impressed I am by the conservation leadership of the South Mountain Conservancy, Essex County, Joseph DiVincenzo, and of course, New Jersey Audubon and New Jersey Conservation Foundation.

Note how expensive this is – $800,000.  If we were to measure the acreage of forests in NJ that need to be restored and multiply that by the per-acre costs of this restoration we’d have monetary value we could put on the ecological problem of overabundant deer.   This sounds like a fun exercise .  Anyone up for it?