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Maybe snake fungal disease (caused by Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola)?

I mean, that's not exactly what he said--he says that he partly extinguished the fire, that many other people were there, and that they should have finished the job of putting it out. But he doesn't deny starting the fire, which is what constitutes the crime of arson. Maybe those are mitigating...

Looking at other Witte collections from that day, it seems he was botanizing between Sim Place and Warren Grove. He was scrupulous enough to keep track of which county he was in on the labels, so the "2 mi SW" is probably reasonable accurate and I would place the collection somewhere on the SE...

I checked the mid-Atlantic herbaria portal for other 1953 collections in Burlington County with locality "Lebanon" and all the results were collected by Jack McCormick and several have similar references to lines and quadrats. It's quite possible that he collected the Drosera but it was...

If the "north floodgate" is the one for Mill Pond Reservoir (rather than the downstream reservoirs to the southeast), 800 m W would put you about here; I can't quite judge whether that area looks burnt-over in those 1980s aerials.

Resurrecting the necro-thread here because I've been thinking about the other end of the W&DR. The Baltimore & Ohio built a track on the south side of Wilmington, Delaware down to the Christina River, about where the I-295 bridge is now. That would have been their ferry connection to the W&DR, I...

4. Do not dig up dead bodies you have seen in dreams. Mysterious boxes are still OK, though. "People used to put gold coins in buckskin bags and bury them all over these woods." 5. Do not look for the Jersey Devil during a snowstorm. (Crossing threads a bit, here.)

Yes, it was Warner's name that caught my eye in that paragraph. Lynden died of liver cancer, according to the church's burial record. Oddly enough, a different Uriah Bowker features in Beck's "Slabtown and Copany" as a blind Civil War veteran turned mail carrier for Browns Mills. As is often...

Unearthed while researching something entirely different. From the Mount Holly News of May 28, 1912: Mr. Bowker had reached the ripe old age of 19 at the time, but there may have been more in play regarding his casual attitude towards the flammable. The News of August 31, 1915 reported that...

Probably due to wheel slip (from slippery rail, starting a heavy train, etc.)

It's common enough as an invasive in Piedmont successional forests.

A quick review suggests that it takes some adaptation to make a GoPro suitable for a "daily driver" dashcam (it's not easy to save specific footage from being overriden). My guess would be that the couple was using it to make "MY DRIVE TO THE JERSEY DEVIL" TikTok content or something so it...

Zinc chloride toxicity (cf. the link to 1942 operations) is acute; it appears to be the result of hydrolysis to zinc oxychloride and hydrochloric acid, the latter of which will burn mucous membranes, etc. Zinc contamination is bad for aquatic life (high concentrations may affect the embryonic...

I have questions.

Phragmites is a freshwater plant, although it does tolerate brackish water.