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  1. manumuskin

    How did you get your screen name?

    Never knew there was another Buckshutem.I"m a cumberland county boy.Lived in cape may county for a couple years once but other then that never lived north of Millville except for a month long stint in Vineland when i was ten (don't tell) and I lived in Ft. Dix several months one time.
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    What mammal would dig up sand over and over?

    Never thought about bears but they should be great at it.Problem is you can beat a pig up and take it's truffles.You ever tried that with a bear?
  3. manumuskin

    Munyon Field

    Menantico I didn't know you were related to the Carmel rd Ukes.My old horticulture teacher from Votech lived there.His name was Nicholas Seminiuk.I was also friends with the Dupnocks in high school. Glad to see the Russians and Ukes could get along at one time.I like them both but I understand...
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    How did you get your screen name?

    I actually grew up closer to Buckshutem and Bear swamp but just liked manumuskin and did spend a lot of time there once I got wheels.
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    How did you get your screen name?

    Spung man how do you tell a vernal pond from a spung? I always assumed a spung was designated by it's vegetation these usually being filled with leatherleaf and hence this made them a spung.You seem to be saying a spung is a geological formation with no ties to vegetation.Are you saying all...
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    How did you get your screen name?

    I picked a creek nearby and took that name.It was either this or menantico or Buckshutem.Menantico is now also taken.Any takers for Buckshutem?
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    Jersey cranberry farm celebrates 125 years

    amf I was just at that bog.It is private and the guy I went with had permission.There are a couple nice cypress growing along it with knees also you can see pics of a stone monument i took out there on my Cumberland Stones thread.I took no pics of the bog.sorry:-(
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    Cumberland County Stones

    How did the troopers decide whose property they were on? Did you show him the survey map or did they just leave when the troopers showed up to preserve the peace:-)?
  9. manumuskin

    Mapping site

    They have my house on here and didn't even ask permission? :-(!
  10. manumuskin

    Be careful out there

    Looks like a plant that would favor mesic sites with sweeter soil.Don't think it will take over the barrens though might show up in old fields around the edges of the Barrens,even maybe down my way around the bay more??? Something else to wammy my day.
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    Cumberland County Stones

    Now fatwood is a term I"m familiar with.I have often broken fatwood out of dead pines and spruce when in WV to start fires with.Didn't know that they were referring to fatwood when using the term "Pine Knot". I don't know how they would use that to mark a property corner.fatwood is somewhat more...
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    Cumberland County Stones

    So many surveys and maps have the infamous (pine knot) all over them. I have yet to figure out what a "pine knot" is or to find one.Something tells me they don't last as long as stones:-).Now surveyors are shoving rebar under the ground where you'll never find it without a 10,000 dollar gps and...
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    Cumberland County Stones

    I am clueless.
  14. manumuskin

    ORV Management In Sensitive Areas Of Wharton

    I will know and won't care.I"ve had it.
  15. manumuskin

    ORV Management In Sensitive Areas Of Wharton

    They closed all the southern accesses of Tulpehocken creek. I see some carsonite markers biting the dust in the near future.
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    Carranza Cemetery?

    I shoulda known you had photos:)
  17. manumuskin

    Carranza Cemetery?

    Actually I think there are three pets there.Ones name was Otto. Can't remember the other two names.Anyone here remember them?
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    What mammal would dig up sand over and over?

    coyotes will dig snakes,mice even for insects.Skunks dig holes,the shape of these is more shaped like a dog scratch.
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    What mammal would dig up sand over and over?

    I have a friend who is big into mushrooms and I"ve been reading up on them and going shrooming with him a lot lately and just read a good article on truffles and this is where I got the info on dogs vs, pigs in truffle hunting.The short of it was pigs are better at it but you have to fight them...
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