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Great shots! As Boyd said, welcome to the site!

Still bothered by this. Am I misunderstanding this? If I drive down the sand roads from place to place with my kids to go birding, fishing, odeing/herping (without touching anything of course) or picking huckleberries, am I off-roading? If that's the case, there's probably going to be lots of...

Sorry to hear of the incident. I hope they recover fully and quickly.

For starters, I do applaud this effort: "The other, expected to take shape this coming spring, will create an interactive map of the pinelands showing where off-road vehicle use is approved or prohibited." At least if they can funnel activity into certain areas, this will probably cut down (I...

Thanks Al, partly my fault because I waited as long as I did to make the announcement to the forum. I'll keep you posted for the next one. Mark

Thank you for the kind words, and for attending!

Forgot to add: the program starts at 7 pm and it's free. I'll check PMs one last time around 6:40 for any last minute requests. Already got some interest on here, thanks for the support!

Hey Folks, I'm doing a presentation on poisonous plants for the Lancaster County Master Gardeners this evening (2/16/2022). I've done this presentation for other organizations before and it's been well received. Many of the plants don't grow in the Pine Barrens proper but do grow on the...

So Guy, Bob, am I understanding correctly that there is skepticism as to whether or not these are actually graves? Also, Guy, thank you very much for the info. Do you have a copy of the map with the "Ted's Grave" pin that is zoomed out a bit? I'd be interested in checking it out. Feel free to...

Boyd, you rock, thank you so much for these. I thought the glassworks were near the campground, I didn't realize the campground was practically right on top of it. Do you (or anyone else) know anything about the old cemetery? Location, etc.? Edited to add: I found this article (from 1996)...

I've been interested in quite some time about a few sites in Brendan Byrne State Forest and was wondering if you all could point me in the right direction, I have a few questions about some of the sites. In Howard Boyd's book (Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey) he refers to Mount...

Yup, I had a feeling this storm was going to 'bomb out' as the meteorologists have become fond of saying. I guess my snowblower tune up wasn't in vain after all!

We took a ride up to Sussex County last year. It was a short visit because of how hot it was, but we got eastern least clubtail and some rusty snaketails, along with a few dragonhunters in a short time. Another thing: last year I intended to search more areas in Central Jersey close to the...

@bobpbx thanks for posting. You are correct, it's a great article and fascinating to read. I thought the graphic towards the center of the article (about its colonization and migration over time based on data) was pretty cool. Consistent with the very long viability of the seed ("seed...

Hey @CurMUDgeon , thank you for posting this! I do have these books, they've been extremely valuable in my pursuits. Also, have you heard any more about Ed's dragonfly book? I wholeheartedly agree with you about his damselflies book. I'll probably be haunting Whitesbog/Brendan Byrne a little...

@enormiss I'd say a combination of the above fosters conflict between users. Did I ever tell anyone here about being confronted by a birder while we were fishing last year in the Pine Barrens with my two young sons? She started lecturing me about conservation. If any of you have spent any...

I agree completely Teegate, I should have phrased it more accurately to reflect that sentiment.

Shawn LaTourette, the DEP commissioner, said the state is obligated to balance the competing demands of users. “It’s not as though there’s one group that’s noble and one group that isn’t,” he said. “It’s far too easy to idealize one party and villainize another. It’s not the case that every...

When I was a young man, a feisty woman described snowstorms to me with a wink and a smile as "you never know how long it's gonna last or how many inches you're gonna get". And that's all I've got to say about that...

Hey Al, yes I do have it! I was fortunate to have a friend of mine send me a copy when I told him about our big year. Cumberland County is supposed to be great for dragonflies. We did get to see Uhler's sundragon down there early this year which is quite rare.