Cows don't go to school. Taxes increase as farms turn into suburbs. The trust will ensure that there are adequate places for residents to play and enjoy the outdoors. As people enjoy and use their outdoor environment, they will appreciate and become better stewards of a clean, healthy environment. Open space also maintains New Jersey's outdoor tourism industry by providing places for the public to fish, swim, boat, hunt and hike.
Outdoor recreation provides thriving business opportunities.
For example, people who freshwater fish, hunt or picnic spend money on equipment, gasoline, food, and other products. Strategic open space acquisitions also protect existing parklands from detrimental development, such as pollution of park lakes and inappropriate development around park boundaries. A diverse environment produces diverse, healthy wildlife - a global environmental concern. One could argue a trust is a tenet of acting locally while thinking globally. When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if the works of some great writer had perished.