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A super nice surprise today, exploring streams in Bass River State Forest with Ron (Rooftree) and Mike Baker. I've been doing this for 30 years, and never saw an albino Arethusa before. We counted over 250 of this species in the usual color today.

That's interesting. Maybe I've always overlooked it. Whereabouts was it? Boyd said it has thorns.

I'm thinking it was towed to her house.

Okay, here's your can't miss clue, taken from my car window today.

That report is well written, I've seen it before. Yes, it all depends on local conditions. The 17,000 acre 1995 fire that swept through Greenwood Forest also blasted the full width of a big section of Webbs Mill Creek and destroyed all the cedar in it's path. It took awhile, but it's coming...

A feeling of helplessness is a horrible thing to live through. I hope she gets some news somehow, someway. I cannot imagine her walking into the woods after her car got stuck. Maybe the car was stolen from her at one point.

No, but others who live closer have been there. We all like the after-effects of fire. I did a lot of surveying after the big fire a few years ago west of the Mullica and East of route 206. That was a great rejuvinator. I reported over 400 pine barren gentians after that fire.

Seedlings will come up, so my opinion is yes, eventually. But it will be a strange thing, because those that burned will be snags alongside the new ones for a long time.

Their burns are never hot, that's the problem. Did you see my post about a very hot wildfire burn I visited awhile back? Now that was hot! It was at the tail end of a bad drought. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/airpark-wildfire-last-september-in-lacey-township.14769/

I'm doing this just west of South Toms River, and south of a humongous community bordering route 37. Here below, within the waypoints. An airport to the west, a suburb to the east, a big landowner to the south, and grey heads like me to the north.

Your statements are timely for me. I'm doing a plant survey for Audubon right now, and was out there today. It's a blend of pitch pine lowland and pitch pine upland. The lowland has duff 4 to 6" deep, inhibiting the good stuff like orchids and sedges and gentians. I was looking for bellwort...

This is why Rubus (blackberry, raspberry) can be so challenging. These 3 leaves came from the same plant. I don't study hybrids.

This Red Cedar growing on an old homestead site is possibly the largest one I've ever seen. Some branches in the upper half are as thick as the standard ones I see in disturbed areas up this-a-way.

I'll say you are right. :)

Many by DEP. They will even do private landowners (I think) if they pay for it. PS: if you mean full out summer growing season, that is unlikely. https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/fire/

Absolutely not. No comparison at all.

Remember the drought in 2022? By September, every water hole for miles was dry, but if you had a clay bottom, it would hold water for months and months, like this one in that drought. Can anyone guess where this shot is? It's held water for so long that wetland plants are taking advantage of it.

Here's a couple serious-minded trees along a freshwater creek just 300 yards from the salt marsh. I'll let you give them an ID. The other side of the one above. This tree was even larger. That trunk in the rear belongs to it too.

The most shocking thing I found in Cape May Township was noted on my first visit. There is a parking lot for people off Bayshore road. This lot goes all the way back to the bay, but I could go no further than 80 feet before I hit a 4 acre wall of Blackberry 6 to 7 feet tall. This is no ordinary...

Anymore, I don't ever expect to find good going unless it's definite upland sand. Just get used to taking a stick with you and checking holes that seems suspect.