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A call-out resulted in the nature center and phone being unstaffed yesterday while the remaining park staff were assisting the Forest Fire Service with the burn. I intended to post here that the park would be open as normal on Sunday, but I was unconcious a few minutes after getting home.

Very cool. Nice job

On that note, see the notice on the recreation sub-forum regarding Wells Mills being closed Saturday. Ticks will be beat down for a bit on the piece burned but it never lasts long. Their reproduction ability fills in any population gaps with amazing speed.

Wells Mills County Park will be closed in order to conduct prescribed burning on Saturday, March 10, weather conditions permitting. Call the park office at 609-971-3085 on that day to confirm its status prior to visiting.

I’m all for it. In my neck of the woods the GSP left lane is usually clogged by residents rehearsing their own funeral processions and by out-of-staters who apparently do not have similar laws in their states. Nothing screws up smooth traffic flow like ignoring this law.

I know it's been many years since McPhee's book was written, but my experience has been far from Brown’s characterization of Forest Fire Service staff. Maybe he had a bad encounter or two, or maybe he was one of those types with an insecurity complex when it came to someone else having...

Looks like another year I'm missing it due to having to work. :mad:

Well I was in agreement that this particular week poses more risk than the rest of hunting season due to the far greater numbers of hunters, therefore greater odds of an incident than during other times, but I certainly wouldn’t refer to hunters as men trying to prove anything. Are fishermen...

I bought a rifle at Dixons. They are certainly the place to go for muzzleloaders. You might find a better price elsewhere but they have the knowledge and everything else you might need. You can walk out of their shop looking like Jeremiah Johnson if you want! I bought a .36 caplock for squrrel...

I think the danger of being in the woods during hunting season is blown out of proportion by many but I’m with you on this week. I used to avoid shotgun week and stick the solitude of black powder season until those damn inline guns ruined that season as well. Mostly waterfowl for me now.

One possibility, if the glass looked modern, is a type of commonly used fill material that contains ground up recycled construction or demolition debris. It is mostly concrete and asphalt but I’ve seen glass in it too. It often goes by the name “R-blend”. I despise its use in natural or historic...

I stopped by Atsion today while passing through the area and walked around the mansion for a bit. Most of my past visits were back when it was fenced in and I never got a look at it up close. One thing I looked for was the famed “P” that was supposed to be imprinted on each of the iron porch...

Cool pictures! It’s such a shame that simple, rugged, easily maintained vehicles like these are not available anymore. Now the major selling points seem to be how much useless, malfunction-prone crap can be loaded into a truck, which serves mostly to increase the price while adding very few...

I never had much of an appetite for put-and-take pheasant and quail hunting or trout fishing either. I’d much rather prefer resources be used for improving or restoring habitat for native birds than raising and releasing birds that are no more wild than chickens. It is my understanding that the...

The exception to using .22 rimfires on WMAs is when target shooting at official ranges, such as the one at Stafford Forge WMA, located on Rt. 539. The availability of that range to use .22s is what prompted me to acquire a rifle years ago that my children have had many fun target sessions with...

That’s the nice thing about doing all your deer hunting with rifle that loads from the muzzle……..no magazine laws to have to interpret. :)

The train example is not a very good one if it is to show that accidents happen. It is a better example of the recklessness that most likely resulted in the reported hunting incident Most of these collisions are also not accidents at all, but rather a case of drivers deliberately breaking posted...

I'm still here. I guess I fared well, considering I only go to church for weddings and funerals. :)

Even though bright colors makes sense during hunting season, I don't care what kind of clothing the victim was wearing. There’s absolutely no excuse for this kind of accident. One of the fundamental rules of gun handling is “be sure of your target, AND beyond” And while small game hunters often...

Anyone else go? I got dragged there, kicking and screaming. I haven’t attended in about ten years, and the reason I stopped going has not seemed to change. The only worthwhile purchase was a book from Marilyn. With the exception of a half dozen vendors, most of everything outside was generic...