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The Office of Planning Advocacy is forcing Pinelands Villages to become Priority Growth Zones in its Revisions to the State Planning Rules, even though this initiative is counter to the spirit of the Comprehensive Management Plan. On March 16, 2012, I asked former Pinelands Commissioner Dan...

Bob, Complex deformations described as non-diastrophic (non-tectonic) thermokarst involutions are sometimes encountered in Pinelands sections where soils were sufficiently ice-rich and composed of differing textural components. A density readjustment occurred through mass displacement as...

Boyd, I bought the Montana 600 a year-and-a-half ago after consulting with you. Many thanks. Early on I developed a problem with screen-touch calibration and Garmin quickly replaced that unit (new model flaw). It's replacement has worked very well ever since. The Montana is a rugged system...

Yep, Everyone had plugs hanging out their grills. Subaru is a popular brand. HooDoo has well-made craft beer, brewed in the heart of Alaska. Fairbanks is one of the few places I can talk about Pine Barrens nondiastrophic thermokarst involutions over a beer, and don't get punched in the...

Thanks Oji, I forgot how pretty Pine Barrens flowers look close up! S-M

Bob, I just returned from Fairbanks, where I will be working on Pine Barrens soils with the University of Alaska (College of Engineering & Mines; School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences). UAF has great expertise on cold climate dynamics not available in the lower 48 States. We met...

OK, Anyone up for a Hoo Doo Porter? S-M

Hare-raising story, Geezerfinneran...

One way to improve dark-sky conditions and save energy is the use of LEDs. LED streetlamp aims to improve public's view of stars "Researchers believe they have come up with a new type of LED-powered streetlamp that could radically reduce light pollution."...

Bob, I know it sounds counterintuitive, but that has been the historic trend to groundwater - downward. Don't forget, lush vegetational growth proceeds wildfires. It is a robust response with high rates of evapotranspiration. Also, the climate has been steadily warming since the Little Ice...

Gabe, I went back to the original quote, which is on page 23, not 25. My bad. In its entirety, "The original heavy growth of timber covered the country and the streams and swamps carried very much more water than since the iron horse came snorting through the land, blowing sparks and landing...

The Press of Atlantic City posted a feature article on the little known hamlet of New Kuban. http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_128df5aa-aae0-11e2-9c2b-0019bb2963f4.html. New Kuban is the last in a long line of Eastern European colonies in the Pines. Russians...

Karen will be missed. She provided refreshing new ways to look at the Pine Barrens, its inhabitants, and its advocates. Too bad she never got to see the completion of the latest project, Legendary Locals of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, which had a combination of contemporary and historical...

What a great term, Medfordization!

I just asked an astrophysicist colleague why NJ'a aurora was reddish-purple, not green like light shows up north. The difference is in the energy levels – green is high-energy emissions, red is low-energy emissions. I'll be in Fairbanks in a couple weeks and, if lucky, hope to see a better show...

Decent atmospheric conditions in western Atlantic County, but the light show was not very good. Every time I've seen the Northern Lights here they've been a dull reddish-purple, barely perceptible, and they flash like faint heat lightning. Last night's display was very faint around 12:30 AM, if...

Oh my, This is only the beginning. If the State continues to advocate Pinelands Villages as "centers of place" growth areas, Villages like Chatsworth will increasingly become urbanized. The idea of traffic calming is not necessarily a safety issue, but one of economics. According to an NJDOT...

A thousand pardons.

Johnnyb, Your pebble observations are interesting. I will have to try this! From the description you are north of the Mullica and looking at Beacon Hill gravels. The Beacon Hill is a “facies” (look it up) of the Cohansey Formation. The quartz and chert pebbles are very old, maybe five to ten...

Folks, fear not. You are witnessing a brief bout of “periglacial fever.” Something like this hasn’t occurred here since Peter Wolfe’s 1953 paper Periglacial frost-thaw basins in New Jersey. This isn’t that wimpy glacial/proglacial/paraglacial stuff from Upstate New York. It's the hard stuff...