Reader objects to Sparta Mountain management plan

As a Lake Stockholm homeowner and lifelong resident of New Jersey, I object to the "Management" plan for Sparta Mountain. To say that this could affect the aquifer in sensitive habitat is an understatement of epic proportion.
Exempted from Highlands legislation, it endangers water sources that quench the thirst of millions of New Jersey residents, threatens multiple species, and negatively impacts lake communities. The plan indicates management of inaccessible trees as "deferred". Since this is the first ten of a sixty-year plan, it's conceivable this reflects waiting until the mountains are carved up sufficiently to allow total access.
Roughly 365,000 acres of public lands could fall to logging "management" but who benefits? When Sparta Mountain is a carved-up network of logging roads, taxpayers lose! When previously contiguous woodland in the most densely populated state in the nation is a veritable loss, what then?
This plan is reason to leave New Jersey, relocating to states that value their lands. It would, however, involve paying that pesky "exit tax" to the State of New Jersey upon the sale of our home.
Jennifer Downing
Stockholm