By EnviroPolitics Editor Frank Brill

NJ Spotlight was all over a joint legislative hearing in Trenton yesterday where a task force of some 50 environmental organizations, deputized by Senate Environment and Energy Chairman Bob Smith, presented 16 key recommendations from their 270-page report on forest stewardship.

If you think that environmental groups all think alike, you’d be wrong. Although the report shows a consensus on many points, like putting deer and invasive species in the crosshairs, the group’s unanimity came asunder over tree-cutting’s role in proper forest maintenance.

Watch Spotlight’s video reporter Ted Goldberg cover the hearing in the clip above.

Print reporter Tom Johnson gives us: Task force delivers tome on best-practices forest management

Watch it? Read it? I prefer to do both. How about you?

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