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Yesterday Ro & I visited Beaver Swamp, parked at the end of the pot-holed dirt road, walked across the earthen dam and thru the wooded "island". Lots of questions: who built that dam? when? What for? It's in the middle of nowhere, didn't see signs of a mill, doesn't look like cranberry bog...

Here's an interesting tick article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431195-800-lyme-disease-is-set-to-explode-and-you-cant-protect-yourself/

It was a toss-up as to where to tack this post, "Trip Reports ..." or here, and obviously "here" won. Ro and I attended excellent "Pine Barrens Short Course" at Stockton yesterday. While there mark Szutarski introduced us to the subject journal ,"A journal devoted to the history, culture, and...

PineBarrensAdventurer - No,I haven't. Ive read a little about Pursh but nothing by him. Did read Raffinesque biography but nil on Pines in it, tho very interesting otherwise.

Gotta weigh back in. I was hoping someone here has access to published materials by the early botanists/naturalists/collectrors - Nutall, Bartrams, et al, who were in the Pines before the advent of the bog Iron furnaces and presumably big-time logging, and who may have written their...

Background: for years I’ve heard conversations and opinions regarding what the Pinelands looked like, what tree species there were, before Europeans came here and messed with it. Most, if not all, of such talks ended with something along the lines of , “well, we can’t really be sure as we...

In the past two days we’ve seen a big maple on Pemberton-Ft Dix access road beginning to leaf out and others in bud, blueberry bushes in bud at Whitesbog, red-bellied turtles on a log in a wet ditch in Tuckahoe WMA, a tree (Cherry?) with pink blooms along US9 on the way to Cape May, and...

thanks Guy for the new address.

Certainly not a scientific statement but tho subjective still valuable I think - never saw or got a tick inJJ until one showed up on me in early '60's after bushwhacking on Elbo Lane in Mt Laurel. Had rambled the pines on foot mid-50's - Batsto -Quaker Bridge and Washington-Quaker Bridge...

On this Form there's an active thread "Nescochague berry feeder canal" in which Teegate put a link to an earlier thread " https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/purchase-a-b-stone-and-a-canal.2032/>. On 10 Oct 2007 on this earlier thread guy posted a map that had Rosenhyen and the D&A canal...

I was reading a thread here about the Richards canal and in one of the links there was a piece of an old map that showed a "Delaware and Atlantic" canal that ran from Rosenhayen (where is that?) on the Delaware River thru Jobstown and Juliustown. Did that canal actually exist? When? Who? I...

Ro found the video at the below address that presents a new, and surprisingly plausible, version of the Jersey Devil Story. < https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=XJcGDtRG-Js>

Somewhere recently I read or heard that in Colonial and later times people building a home would plant a pair of sycamore trees out front. Yesterday, Ro and I traveled a lot of gack roads in Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, Burlington, and Camden Counties. It was noticeable that many...

Professor Peter Odemans of the Rutgers P E Marucci Research station on Lake Oswego Road very kindly sent me the web address for Lake Oswego weather records. I'm in the process of compiling weekly precipitation for the past 5 years from this data set. Then it will be compared with the scanty...

Howdy Boyd: I am amazed at what you've done with mapping the Pines and even more, what you contemplate adding to it. Professor Peter Oudemans at the P E Maucci Research Station on Oswego Lake Road provided me with the link to weather data for Oswego Lake...

Bob, it was when my kids were still in school, probably around 1970, no idea what year. Reading the above, that 2002 posting expands what I remember. Man, how I wish I'd taken pictures in the Pines back then when we wandered all over and saw stuff no longer visible/there.....

MANY thanks, Boyd. I'll work with data from this site and see if it answers our needs.

HELP! Been trying to locate precipitation records for Chatsworth area to use with botanical data we've been taking on Parker Preserve. Would like monthly totals for past 19 years. Have contacted NOAA in Westampton - zilch; suggested contacting Dr Robinson of Rutgers, state climatologist -...

Additional two cents. For quite a while there were rail cars off in the woods on the east side of the CNJ just north of Rte 72. Don't remember any building; don't remember there being the extensive embankment work seen in the pictures. Different wreck?