What are the Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation programs?
These valuable state programs fund preservation efforts throughout the state to maintain the character of New Jersey by protecting our drinking water supplies and providing parks and recreational opportunities for all residents and preserving open spaces, working farms and historic sites in communities across the state. 3) What is the Blue Acres program? Passage of the ballot question would create the Blue Acres program, which funds the purchasing of flood-prone lands by the State from willing sellers for open space preservation purposes. These lands are either prone to or have incurred flood or storm damage and are located in the Delaware River, Passaic River and Raritan River basin floodways. 4) I keep hearing about the Garden State Preservation Trust. Why isn’t this money being used to replenish that program? The Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) is a non-political financing authority that manages the highly-successful Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation programs. E
