August 25, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 58 you can see the houses. I think that's, I can't read them, but whatever blocks those are, but those would be the houses of where I live and my neighbors live. Okay. Thank you for sharing what that means. And then my other last question is, on slide number 9. Can you just give the definition of what a protected important soil is, like what does that mean? THE WITNESS: So the Natural Resources Conservation Service is a federal agency that maps and monitors the soils. And so they have mapped the entire country and they have soil maps for New Jersey and each soil type is in their data base of having certain productivity, a certain water retention, a certain texture that can be translated to how well a forest will grow there. How productive. It's generally done in the case of whether it's productive wood lots, but it's giving soil fertility indications. The equivalent of prime farm soils. New Jersey also has a prime soils map and prime soils are the ones that are most productive and so it's a goal or mission program to try to save the best, most fertile soils. This is showing forest productivity because this is a forested area. So it's a map, a model that's taking the soils data and showing which ones are the most productive. The ones that are green are the 1A, the ones that are purple, light