{"id":54871,"date":"2024-03-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=54871"},"modified":"2024-04-11T16:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:14:41","slug":"news-2024-03-27-your-opinion-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2024-03-27-your-opinion-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Opinion is Needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Attention Wildlife Conservationists!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54874\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:480px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/side-view-of-spotted-salamander-crawling-on-dead-log-covered-in-patch-of-green-moss-with-orange-leaves-on-ground-against-dark-black-night-by-mackenzie-hall-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo credit: MacKenzie Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife is updating <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2024-03-13-njdep-fish-and-wildlife-seeks-public-comment-on-the-species-of-greatest-conservation-need-sgcn-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Jersey\u2019s State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP)<\/a>. The NJ SWAP is focused on the conservation of species and habitats to prevent them from becoming more rare and costly to protect or restore. Public comment is an important part of ensuring the needs of New Jersey\u2019s Wildlife are addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NJFW is seeking public comments on the updated Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) based on our selection process: information sources, criteria applied, and fatal flaw analysis of the resulting SGCN list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comments are due by May 10, 2024. We look forward to hearing from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2024-03-13-njdep-fish-and-wildlife-seeks-public-comment-on-the-species-of-greatest-conservation-need-sgcn-list\/\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(1,132,88) 0%,rgb(12,127,164) 100%)\"><strong>COMMENT NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Wildlife Conservationists! NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife is updating New Jersey\u2019s State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP). The NJ SWAP is focused on the conservation of species and habitats to prevent them from becoming more rare and costly to protect or restore. Public comment is an important part of ensuring the needs of New Jersey\u2019s Wildlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":54922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}