Beginning in 1912, the people of the New Jersey Pine Barrens were under attack and faced extermination. It didn’t come from an enemy army or disease, but from the modern science of eugenics and the progressive political movement of the day. Two government-funded reports had labeled the residents in the press as incestuous inbreeders who lived a life of crime. Soon, shouts of what will we do with “those people” resounded from the state’s urban centers.