NJ S1683

Requires the Department of Environmental Protection to recognize fishing, hunting, and trapping as primary uses of state parks and forests and to manage these lands to support and enhance these recreational opportunities.

Mandates the DEP to inventory all acreage currently available for fishing, hunting, and trapping and prohibits any land management decisions that would result in a net loss of this acreage.

Requires replacement acreage to be found expeditiously if any existing state park or forest land is closed to fishing, hunting, or trapping, and directs the commissioner to expand these opportunities when acquiring new land.

Allows exceptions to the no-net-loss requirement only for public safety, homeland security, environmental/wildlife management reasons, or land exchanges where the state receives property of equal or greater value.

Requires an annual written report to the Legislature by March 1 each year detailing acreage available, any closures and their reasons, replacement acreage opened, and explanations for why any newly acquired lands are not open to these uses.