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Bob, tell me more about the dead box turtles. Were they near or approaching wetlands? When I walked the bass river fire I found a half dozen box turtle shells as the turtles were fleeing to a cedar lowland but didn’t quite make it there. When I explored the Wharton/batsto fire I found dozens of...

Need a lot more than this. First time since I’ve lived in my house in Shamong that peepers didn’t call from my ponds. Very quiet spring from frogs. Although toads and tree frogs started this week which is relieving.

Pine barrens for another generation :)

Fires like this should be a reminder to people not to build in barrens.

This fire makes me rethink some of my thoughts on nj forest fires. This moved violently and fast. Also reminds me of the thread of how much time you have to get out of forest if a fire breaks out. Def humbling…

They are at least doing more detailed maps. But I agree it’s not a lot of info especially if you are close by.

Feel like that area hasn’t burned in a while. Should be good for that forest.

SPYPOINT have a nice rechargeable option which I have on my cameras. They actually last a long time in the field without needing to recharge. Again the reception will be an issue. Maybe I’ll try mine out in pines again and see.

I have SPYPOINT cellular cameras. They send still photos when the camera detects to my cell phone. The photos aren’t great and work well to just identify the type of animal. There is likely no chance they get reception to send a photo to a cell phone. I’ve tried mine at corn and pine dens and I...

Was down in cape may yesterday at some spots and there was actually a lot of water at ponds. I went in expecting to see very low levels and was surprised it was the opposite. They must have gotten far more from some of the winter snows then we did up here in burlco. Think Boyd mentioned this and...

Wasn’t too much lightning in area. Was off the cut but within the woods and not on a trail or road, at least I don’t think. Maybe more fireworks??

Looks like the source of the fire was 50 yards or so off the powerline cut. At least that is what they had flagged off in a square.

Yes basically, in much of the area I saw it just looked like a spring controlled burn. Around the raritan/old atsion area was cooked pretty good. But for most part I didn’t see signs of an extremely hot burn.

I went in there yesterday. Just like many of these fires the listed acreage is backfire. Everything for most part I saw was backfire. I got to the road that connects old atsion to raritan and to west it was burnt good. I had to turn around as raritan was blocked by forest fire service (who...

It’s just so dry, last rain helped but heading in there wasn’t much water anywhere. I think we are in for another very active fire year unless we get rain dumped on us.