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    Pines

    I am the director of the Cooper Environmental Center, Cattus Island Park. Love the pines but also spend quite a bit of time in the Barnegat Bay. and... You know what they say about "the larger one's avitar..." "The larger one's bandwidth"
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    Name that pod

    The pulp of the honey locust is edible by humans - I live to tell...
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    Goodbye Pine Baroness

    Elizabeth Morgan died on Friday. Anyone from Ocean County will remember her as an avid botonist and historian who was regularly seen bouncing along sand roads in her Jeep. I knew her well and learned quite a bit from her. She was no elitist, though her broad knowledge base would have given...
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    Pines

    FYI - Research by A. Windisch VEGETATION TYPE FIRE RETURN INTERVAL (Average number of years between fires, over several centuries) sugar maple-beech forest (absent in the Pine Barrens) many hundreds of years oak or oak-hickory forest (at edges of the Pine Barrens) 100-200 years...
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    Name that pod

    Honey locust pods do not explode. The pod you found is black locust. Honey locus pods do have a sweet inner pulp once they ripen hense the name...
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    Will eagles or hawks attack housecats?

    Almost never happens. To be sure you should keep your cat inside. It is causing untold environmental damage to birds and small mammals.
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