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Folks, On October 13, botanist Joe Arsenault, historian Paul Schopp, geographer Mark Demitroff, and archeologists John Lawrence and Jack Cresson will get together to celebrate the cultural and environmental treasures of New Jersey’s Inner Coastal Plain found at the Rancocas Nature Center. We...

Folks, This October I’m giving a talk in Mays Landing for the Atlantic County Park System, with a repeat in Cape May for NJ Audubon. Stories of the Jersey Devil and Beyond Local natural historian Mark Demitroff grew up on a western Atlantic County poultry farm. There he enjoyed hearing...

Just so you know how serious this issue is, check out this law blog comment about Richland Village: AN EMINENT DOMAIN EUPHEMISM: An Area in Need of Redevelopment http://www.njeminentdomain.com/state-of-new-jersey-an-eminent-domain-euphemism-an-area-in-need-of-redevelopment.html Under the new...

During the 2006 Village Redevelopment hearing required cultural surveys were waived, specifically because the staffer in charge of such things "felt Richland contained nothing of historical significance." I wrote back an angry letter in protest. Since then I obtained on my own time a Certificate...

Why not walk one of the Pinelands Villages? Park at one end, and take a look around at the vernacular architecture. Stop into the local deli or post office or church and ask the people behind the counter about their place, their families, their trades. Get a sense of what a small town really is...

Good news, or at least it seems so. For now the Office of Planning Advocacy has removed Pinelands Villages from Priority Growth Investment Areas. They are to become Alternate Growth Investment Areas. An “Alternate Growth Investment Area” means: “an area that has existing or planned...

Cool beans!

Manumuskin, I too traveled those old trails back there as a youth. Peaslee Wildlife Management Area was my stomping grounds as a kid. There's a neat trick a neighbor Glenn Dalponte taught me. The best time to track a trail is during snow-melt. Because of thermal inertia the ruts tend to melt...

Huh, I remember posting on Worrel Cave a while ago, but it doesn't show up in a search. However, here is a link to that post: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/are-there-any-known-caves-in-the-pines.2075/ Is there a reason that the search option only goes back so far? I tried a...

Here's the location of the location of the original St. Mary's Church in Milmay: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.44126977590191&lng=-74.85592450790102&z=17&type=nj1930&gpx= Here's a post card view from Jerseyman's collection and a 1931 aerial photomosaic view to orient yourself: A...

Success Lake! I proposed to Patty there. Lord knows I needed all the help I could get. S-M

I was helping a friend delineate reputed old Catholic church in Estell Manor that no one could remember. Jerseyman kindly offered to run with the few clues I had to go on. As usual, he did not disappoint. Here’s three relevant excerpts from Leahy’s (1906) The Catholic Church of the Diocese of...

Jerseyman kindly offered to run with the few clues I had to go on. As usual, he did not disappoint. Here’s three relevant excerpts from Leahy’s (1906) The Catholic Church of the Diocese of Trenton, N.J., which is available online: http://archive.org/details/catholicchurchof00leah Risley...

Yes, full-blown dunes are uncommon in the Pine Barrens. This is a sand-starved system, eolian landforms are subtle. You'll mostly find relict dunes along the eastern and southern banks of rivers. Most of the eolian bed forms are protodunes and thin sand sheets that have been further modified by...

I was helping a friend delineate reputed old Catholic church in Estell Manor that no one could remember, so noticed the absence of access for a couple days. Switching between maps, I was able to deduce the site probably dated back to the original railroad-era settlement. A number of similarly...

Oops, I missed your answer 46er. Good guess. They are a branch of Sami (Saami, Lapps) called Nenets. Like their Scandinavian relatives to the west, they are Reindeer herders. Nenets live in a remote area just east of the Polar Urals on the flat frozen ground of Yamal Peninsula...

Clear sky in western Atlantic County around midnight. I watched for 15–20 minutes minutes, but never paid attention to the exact time. There was only one dignified meteor - with a wavy tail - that came out of the constellation Pegasus. It may have been bright enough to be classified a fireball...

For resolute Pinelands’s enthusiasts: Physical and Cultural Geography of the Pinelands National Reserve I’ll be back at University of Pennsylvania’s Morris Arboretum teaching a one-day geography course this Fall. It is hosted under the School of Arboriculture, so there will be lots of...

Guy, The purported tavern is out towards the Myrtle intersection. I'd have to drive by to jog the memory. There was another inn about a quarter mile east of the Atlantic/Gloucester/Camden County intersection. The survey stake for the tri-county boundary was set in a spung called Moss Pond...

It's an interesting area. Columbia (Airport) Road was laid out along an ancient trail, so named for the New Columbia Tavern in Nesco. There is a pond near the airport that sums up what the area must have once been like - Desolation Pond. I believe one of these two is the spung...