[PCA] NPCC News: New Jersey Law Requires Native Plants Along Highways — Your State Can, Too!

[Riibe, Lindsey]

Forwarding some exciting news from the Native Plant Conservation Campaign.
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Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Groundbreaking new law requires
native plants for roadside landscaping
May 23, 2017

Thanks to a trailblazing new law
<http://t.ymlp247.net/hyhavaebejqaiameavaemm/click.php>, thousands of miles
of New Jersey roadsides have the potential to be transformed into
“Jersey-fresh gardens”.

This month, the state government adopted a bill
<http://t.ymlp247.net/hywaiaebejqacameapaemm/click.php> that requires the
Department of Transportation and other authorities to only use native
plants to landscape roadways. The rule applies to any projects that break
ground in and after late October.

The law is a response to failed revegetation following Hurricane Sandy. The
non-native plants that were used required expensive care and eventually
died. Subsequently, the state reviewed the accumulating evidence that
restoration
of native plant communities
<http://t.ymlp247.net/hyqataebejqalameagaemm/click.php>, particularly along
waterways and coasts, provides valuable ecosystem services
<http://t.ymlp247.net/hyyazaebejqatameadaemm/click.php>, including
pollution control, water conservation, wildlife habitat and storm
protection.

In addition, new research found that, where they existed, native coastal
wetlands prevented more than $600 million
<http://t.ymlp247.net/wssakaebejqalameaaaemm/click.php> in damage to
Northeastern communities during Sandy.

   - Read the full story
   <http://t.ymlp247.net/wsuataebejqagameaaaemm/click.php> from the
   National Audubon Society
   - Get more information at Save Barnegat Bay
   <http://t.ymlp247.net/wseataebejqacamearaemm/click.php>
   - Learn more about Ecosystem Services on the NPCC Website
   <http://t.ymlp247.net/hyyazaebejqatameadaemm/click.php>
   - See and share the NPCC Ecosystem Services Photo Factsheet
   <http://t.ymlp247.net/wsmalaebejqaaameadaemm/click.php>!


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Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D.
Native Plant Conservation Campaign <http://plantsocieties.cnps.org/>
415 531 4439
emilyr at plantsocieties.org
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