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It being unpopular doesn't matter one bit. Its always been that anybody who is against this plan is a radical 4x4 enthusiast who only cares about tearing up the environment. That's why there's been no real engagement between the PPA and the off-road community besides antagonizing each other...

What baffles me the most is all of the time, money, and energy dedicated to this fight while development continues to happen all around the area. If we're shutting things down, why not put effort into limiting growth in the growth zones? Once a house or building goes up that area is pretty much...

I'm at a loss to understand why this even matters. The Pine Barrens isn't Acadia or the Smokey Mountains, it has its own set of roads and trails, what's the point in comparing it to other parks? Plus was there ever a situation in those places where there was an existing set of trails already...

California. Mt Whitney is in the background. I was just there a few weeks ago.

This explains why they want to close the woods. :)

The new 2024 MAP proposal is up on NJPB Maps. Thanks again to Boyd for making the tileset for the map. https://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.64408187622559&lng=-74.6466937270106&z=13&type=dep2024&gpx=

If you hold shift down and click the reload button it will ignore the cache and load everything fresh. Should work across different browsers and operating systems.

Just a heads up, with Boyd's help the NJ DEP's 2015 draft MAP is now available as a layer in NJPB Maps, so you can see what roads would have been closed had it gone through. (You can switch between the various topo/historical maps to compare.) When they have a new MAP I'll make that one...

Good lord.

I'm working on trying to figure out a safe and secure way to put the image gallery back up. The problem is that development on the software that ran it stopped years ago so there aren't really any new bug fixes to make it secure so I have to see what options are available, if any. I definitely...

Four days later and the yeast is taking off. Science!

I started a batch of cider today in my fancy new conical fermenter. This'll be a small one - only two gallons. Got the cider from Battleview Orchards right by Monmouth Battlefield in Freehold, added a cup of sugar, and half a package of ale yeast. The kitchen looks like a science experiment...

I still have the final backup of the gallery. (9GB worth of pictures!) The issue is that the software that ran it is long dormant. I might be able to get it moved to some other software although I'm not sure that the links would be the same.

Getting Wordpress (which is what runs the front page) and Xenforo (which runs the forums) to work together and play nice is tricky. But I can see what's possible now since it's been a while since I last looked.

Pretty much anything Pine Barrens related is welcome!

There absolutely is interest!!!

Scott, are you going back to wild yeast this year? What are you using to sanitize? Star-san? I sanitize my carboys by mixing up 5 gallons worth of Star-San, siphoning it into another carboy, syphoning it back again, and then once more. Overkill but i like running it through my siphon a few...

So for sure I don't intend to try to change the culture or how the site is run at all. Honestly, of all of the things that I'm most proud of by making NJPB is the civility here. I know we all come from all kinds of backgrounds and ideas but it's nice to have a space where we can all talk about...

I'll see if that's something that I can add.