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R. Corwin, chief of pine barrens commission, dead at 56

Raymond Corwin, the first and only executive director

Photo credit: Handout | Raymond Corwin, the first and only executive director of the 17-year-old Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning & Policy Commission, died April 5, 2010, while working at his Suffolk Water Authority office in Oakdale. He was 56. Newsday's obituary for Raymond Corwin

When years of court battles over Suffolk's pine barrens resulted in a 1993 state law creating Long Island's 100,000-acre pine barren preserve, environmentalist Richard Amper said there was only one man both sides trusted to oversee the new sanctuary - Raymond Corwin.

But Corwin, the first and only executive director of the 17-year- old Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning & Policy Commission,...

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