New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry

State of New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry

Agency overview
Jurisdiction	New Jersey
Parent agency	New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Child agencies	New Jersey Forest Service New Jersey Forest Fire Service New Jersey Office of Natural Lands Management New Jersey State Park Police New Jersey State Park Service
Website	http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/

In the state of New Jersey, the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry is an administrative division of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. In its most visible role, the Division is directly responsible for the management and operation of New Jersey's public park system which includes 42 state parks, 11 state forests, 3 recreation areas, and more than 50 historic sites and districts. However, its duties also include protecting state and private lands from wildfire, managing forests, educating the public about environmental stewardship and natural resources, as well as growing trees to maintain and restore forests in rural and urban areas, and to preserve the diversity of the trees within the forests.^[1]

The cultural and natural heritage of New Jersey is reflected in the diversity of its public parks, forests, and historic sites. The division is the steward of the historic homes, landscapes and battlefields where George Washington and the Continental Army spent almost half of the American Revolutionary War.