It's a fact that New Jersey loses land every year to development. But to hear the Sierra Club tell it, the Garden State is losing more than 8,000 acres a year just in areas of the state where bears are known to roam. PolitiFact New Jersey's Truth-O-Meter has taken aim at that claim. Read the bare facts at PolitiFactNJ.com...
It's a fact that New Jersey loses land every year to development.
But to hear the Sierra Club tell it, the Garden State is losing more than 8,000 acres a year just in areas of the state where bears are known to roam.
PolitiFact New Jersey's Truth-O-Meter has taken aim at that claim. Read the bare facts at PolitiFactNJ.com and find out where the meter landed on this.
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