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Jessica: I'm not sure how you can follow the Varnum Family tree if you are not a direct descendent going back to the 1600's. In the first 7 generations, my direct Great Grandfathers had 10 to 12 kids each. One had 15. You can see the family tree grew quite large, quite fast, and with different...

Jessica. Can you give me a little more info to your connection to Farnham, Farnam, or Varnum There are Ralphs in the first five genrrations, I split off at the fourth Ralph. It was the third Ralph (Farnum) who was involved with in the Salem Witch Trials (DOB: 6/1/1662 Andover MA,; DOD...

I found this on the Web. 'Historically this site was the home of the Pinewood Restaurant which close in the 1970's. Beginning in 1978 the site operated as Beau Rivage"

If I remember correctly, as I walked down that road with the two spungs, there were nice heavy duty wooden barriers in front of them. If the State wanted to close off that road in question, I would think a similar barrier would have been placed at the foot of that road.

I noticed that the sites for Times Herald and the Courier-Post has the same format. They are both owned by Gannett, as they own many other newspapers.

See 2015 DEP Map for 5 Mile Crossing, which you known it as California Branch Road. So, it makes sense that the road crosses California Branch.

I would guess that the blue dash line is California Branch. It appears to be within the original fire area. Does anyone have another name for it? The red line is 5 Mile Crossing. It’s been noted by the FFS. It runs between Old Atsion Rd and Raritan Ave.

If you google 'Aminal tracks in the snow with tail drag', you will find some good possibilities. I say it could be a muskrat or opossum.

Both of you discussed this hill back in February 2023. Guy, you showed the deed on post 16. You are looking for a post, not a stone. There suppose to be one in Roberts Branch too. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/apple-pie-hill-tower-open-saturday.14345/#post-173503

Just Speculation. I have a hunch that the sandstone excavated from the mining site that I had visited was transportd by wagon to the site of the Harrsville Paper Mill. As the crow flies, the distance between the two is less than four miles. I can not find on the internet where the sandstone was...

Bob; you are right. I thought I read that fives years ago on the subject of mycorrhiza. But I might have read that Arethusa settles in poor to moderate sphagnum dominated habitats rather than typical open bog habitat.

Another tidbit of information I had read about Arethusa (same as for other orchids) it needs a 'jump start' to share nutrients from other plants in this case sphagnum moss to help to produce a flower. This process is called 'mycorrhizae' through a network of fungi which connects roots of...

Why did we find three white Arethusa while finding many in the their nornal color. Plants produce anthocyanins, a water-soluble pigments of deep red, purple, and blue. Flowers that are white cannot produce anthocyanins, likely caused by recessive genetic mutations; a change in the DNA sequence...

It’s been a good year, so I’d like to go over some high points. Back in 2023, while Bob was conducting surveys on known Swamp Pink locations, I told him of an area that had good potential for finding Swamp Pinks based on its habitat; a slow moving, defined pure clean stream meandering under the...

My guess is Turkey beard.