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I found this too, in the clearing. A search tells me this may be redroot pigweed, definitely nowhere near the pines. Now I think the clearing was made into a bait pile for the hunter, and he brought in a bunch of bait like sweet pototoes and corn that had a lot of barnyard seeds. I'm not onboard...

The deer stand. Hard to see it's usefulness now.

Here is an intermittent stream. The fire went into the stream and burned all woody material, but stopped before the other side. I think this fire did not have the wind behind it, but since it was in a drought, it took it's time and consumed everything.

This is a small clearing cose to to a deer stand that took a big hit from the fire. There are several plants growing here that are not Pine Barren denizens. The seeds were likely always there, but they needed a jump start from the fire.

This is some sort of resevoir that has a bracket at the base to mount it. I'm surprised it has a plastic cap.

Homemade Feeder

Despite the heat, I can't seem to stay out of that hot burn area. It's really fascinating to be there because right now it's so open, and elemental at this stage. This below is a liverwort that I usually see after hot fire in the pines. It's in the wetland margins, mostly around cedar trees.

Not a single, solitary drop.

Uh-oh. 6:19 pm Barnegat. That's the tail end, it may miss me.

Yes, that's what I'm thinking too: Polygonum cuspidatum. The name has been changed, but I still use this one due to the task.

I got in my car ready to leave, and this fellow came into the puddle. I let him bathe about 5 minutes. Could not get a good shot.

Uh-oh. I saw several of these next to spungs in an otherwise 100% natural pineland habitat. I'm worried that they may be invasive. I have an idea of what it is, but I'd like to see if anyone else recognizes it.

Like a bear? :D

I went out to the hot burn yesterday afternoon. It was so humid I could only go 1/4 mile from the car. Awful, nothing made me cool, the humidity would not allow it. Found this among my plant specimens. That's a hat pin I use to manipulate things.

I consulted a lot of manuals, but in the end I googled the image, and using that suggestion, I read the descriptions in the manuals to be sure. David Snyder generally agrees with the ID. He said: "only 3 NJ records for it and all are along upper Delaware R in Sussex and Warren cos; species is...

Yes, now you have it.

No, but you are in the correct genus.

No, I'm very sure that is not it.