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    The Mountain Laurel bloom

    It sure is here in Laurel Lake:-)
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    Strip Mines.The area is full of em. It's funny you should pick Horse Creek. My Granny lived there as a small child and I went there for the first time about five years ago and found the chimney stack at the head of the holler very near your pointer and that was all that was left and the line of...
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    Holy Crap! Actually they were born in Fayette County and Kanawha County ,WV. Way Cool Bob!
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    Ocean Sediment Testing

    I have always said the same thing! Those barrier islands m0ve. Only a fool would build an expensive home there and a bigger fool would insure it.I might throw me up a shack.Something I"m not going to cry over as it floats away.
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    PS: In Wv it's pronounced Brainch.
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    My Mom was born on Dry Branch and my Pop Pop on Long Branch. I guess I"m just a twig.
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    yes Guy,more ants then I care to think about:-)
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    Ticks explode

    Ants explode as well under a well placed magnifying glass. I haven't done that since I was a kid.I guess i started the war between me and ants and the ones up here telephoned the ones in Florida that LIT me up several years later:-)
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    I think I added branch on my own.To me any crik that small that is tributary to another is a branch.I think it's a WV term I probably picked up from my grand parents since both were born on Branches. Cripple would probably be more of a NJ term.. The topo just says as you said "Sweeten Water"
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    I know where the stone is He reportedly preached at and I"ve read the Great Wilderness.Only problem is I"ve also read Brainerds diary and he claims nowhere in the diary to have ever gotten anywhere near Manumuskin Creek.He was up at Crosswicks in Monmouth county but I can find no evidence other...
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    Sweeten Water Branch

    A few weeks ago me and a friend of mine were scouting a route down Manumuskin Creek for a future plant hike and we wandered through an area where Sweeten Water Branch and Manumuskin meet. http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.389710402974586&lng=-74.92446083229066&z=17&type=nj1930&gpx= As you...
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    Its strawberry time

    Sparacio's charge 1.75 a pound and they were great! Wife picked 30 lbs.They have two weeks left.All ruined last year from rain,this year their awesome!
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    My First Rattle Snake

    But the first couple of hundred thousand years must have been a lot of dead pine snakes since Rattlers are supposedly more highly evolved then non venomous species and so wouldn't have appeared till after the Non Venomous species so there would have been no real rattlers around to mimic. I guess...
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    My First Rattle Snake

    I was thinking okay He took a pic of a Pine Snake to build us up to the Rattler:-) I thinks Pines are the bomb as well so don't be depressed.I"ve been running the Barrens since the 70's and have only seen one live rattler myself and one DOR. You stay in the woods long enough you'll see one.
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    Pine Barrens unusual names

    They should rename it Dingleberry Boulevard.
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    Pine Barrens unusual names

    My old girlfriends grandparents lived on cannon Range Road.Used to have big Memorial day family reunions there.Thats way back early 80's
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    Ticks explode

    you must have more interesting stuff in your head then me:-) They only like me from the neck down...maybe bad breath?
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    Ticks explode

    I have never had a tick in my scalp.Me and my wife were discussing that just yesterday.Is there not enough blood in the scalp to attract them? The hair can't be a deterrent since they chew the hell out of my dog. Perhaps they can tell from a distance there is nothing interesting in my head anyway?
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    Forest Fire at Atsion

    I accidently had my dad drop me and my cousin off into the wrong stream.I only had them map in John parnes "Canoing the NJ Pine Barrens".I didn't know what a topo was back then.My dad thought it didn't look canoeable but the map said it was the first river up hampton gate road....it lied.I put...
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    Consuming pine pollen

    every time I"ve been in the woods the last two weeks I"ve about choked to death.Literally hacking till I thought I would choke.
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