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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Groundbreaking new law requires native plants for roadside landscaping</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">May 23, 2017</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thanks to <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/hyhavaebejqaiameavaemm/click.php" target="_blank">a trailblazing new law</a>, thousands of miles of New Jersey roadsides have the potential to be transformed into “Jersey-fresh gardens”. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This month, the state government adopted <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/hywaiaebejqacameapaemm/click.php" target="_blank">a bill</a> 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.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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 <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/hyqataebejqalameagaemm/click.php" target="_blank">restoration of native plant communities</a>, particularly along waterways and coasts, provides <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/hyyazaebejqatameadaemm/click.php" target="_blank">valuable ecosystem services</a>, including pollution control, water conservation, wildlife habitat and storm protection. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In addition, new research found that, where they existed, native coastal wetlands <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/wssakaebejqalameaaaemm/click.php" target="_blank">prevented more than $600 million</a> in damage to Northeastern communities during Sandy.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Read the <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/wsuataebejqagameaaaemm/click.php" target="_blank">full story</a> from the National Audubon Society </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Get more information at <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/wseataebejqacamearaemm/click.php" target="_blank">Save Barnegat Bay</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Learn more about <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/hyyazaebejqatameadaemm/click.php" target="_blank">Ecosystem Services on the NPCC Website</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">See and share the <a href="http://t.ymlp247.net/wsmalaebejqaaameadaemm/click.php" target="_blank">NPCC Ecosystem Services Photo Factsheet</a>!</span></li>
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<div>Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D.</div>

<div><a href="http://plantsocieties.cnps.org/" target="_blank">Native Plant Conservation Campaign</a></div>

<div>415 531 4439</div>

<div><a href="mailto:emilyr@plantsocieties.org" target="_blank">emilyr@plantsocieties.org</a></div>

<div><em>The mission of the Native Plant Conservation Campaign is to promote the conservation of native plants and their habitats through collaboration, research, education, and advocacy.</em></div>

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