Rowan-Rutgers Report shows suburbanization of New Jersey picks up pace since 2002. Click here to read the report (7/10). Read New Jersey Future's press release and Future Facts on the report.

Protecting our Open Lands
As New Jersey continues to grow, our remaining open lands disappear to development. Building in sensitive areas destroys important plant and animal habitat, impairs our clean and plentiful water resources and fragments our farmland and forests. The loss of our open space diminishes our sense of place and detaches us further from the natural world.

Smart Conservation for Towns
Smart Conservation offers municipalities a powerful approach to land conservation that integrates fundamental land use tools: planning, regulation, and spending
on open space and infrastructure.

Transfer of Development Rights (TDR): An Update
New Jersey municipalities gained a new smart growth tool in March 2004 when Governor James E. McGreevey signed the State Transfer of Development Rights Act.

A New Vision for the Highlands
A regional vision for where and how we grow is essential to ensuring the protection of water supplies in the Highlands.

Smart Conservation: The "Green" Side of Smart Growth
There simply isn't enough money to buy land sufficient to fulfill the public's expectations. We need Smart Conservation...

Assessment of Municipal Performance in Resource Conservation
A survey of planning and zoning in 44 towns, within which lie some of New Jersey's most valued and sensitive natural resources and landscapes.