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Nice. I was going to poke around for it in Salem Co. this spring, but it was so hectic I never got to it.

Hm. I wouldn't say I fully disagree, but while I'd say there is a gradient in personalities from people who are compulsive rule-followers to the oppositionally defiant, I think in practice a lot of people manage to compartmentalize breaking a particular set of laws without being generally...

I think that's an eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. The plant is some kind of monocot with a glaucous stem, obviously, but I haven't gotten further than that.

No offense, but what's the point of discussing any of this? I think everyone, or almost everyone, on these boards agrees that spungs and asphodel and pine snakes are good and we would like to see more of them and those doing well. So I think we also all agree that people should not be riding...

The little so-and-sos are at it again--I thought the water looked a bit high for the weather, with sundews and clubmoss submerged, and sure enough, they've built a small dam from the shore to and around the deceiver and gotten the water up a few inches.

"Isvec" is the Turkish name for Sweden, which isn't precisely what I'd associate with Eric Mullica! Looking at the samples there, I think the simplest explanation is a draftsman's error: some 19th-century cartographer saw a serif-adorned and slightly smudgy "Loveland" and misread it as...

I mean, that's the statute's language, not Russ's. August 8, 1980 was the original target adoption date for the CMP. As I read it, there's 3 layers to this statute: Driving off the "public highways" in the Pinelands is illegal EXCEPT for areas "designated" by the state or county (maybe that's...

It's awkwardly worded, but the "other motor vehicles" presumably refers to the "No motor vehicle", etc., so I think the second sentence intentionally carves out an exception from the first. The implication seems to be that before 1980, state or local governments designated some areas within the...

I think NJ Rev Stat § 39:3C-33 (2022) may be helpful here: https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/2022/title-39/section-39-3c-33/ 39:3C is otherwise exclusively about off-road vehicles, but this provides the schedule of fines for operating any vehicle ("street-legal" or ORV) on "public...

I was going to say "'it makes no sense'? Tony, have you ever met live teenagers?" but this works too.

There seems to be very little, but then again, a lot of the little scraps of practice in things like Drinker's letter or the Martha diary would be incomprehensible to us without a more full picture of iron operations elsewhere. There's an account of practice at Nassawango Furnace on the...

This seems to match more or less with R.B. Gordon's description of bloomery work (American Iron, pp. 94-97), but on a very small scale: look at the tiny bloom they lift out at the end! He gives a good description of the work, and of the ineffable skill required both in manipulating the materials...

I was hoping you knew! Three hypotheses, in (IMO) increasing order of probability: These areas were never channeled. Seems very unlikely: the flat area isn't raised above the area carved by meltwater and there's no trace of other features that would have sheltered it from runoff. They were...

What kind of oaks, Boyd? Here in the Piedmont, I don't feel like I see as many young oaks as I should. I wonder if scrub oaks coming up by root sprouting are better sustained by the root network when gnawed? Or maybe the scrub oaks (chinkapin excepted) are less palatable?

The pointer is centered in one of the flat zones here: https://boydsmaps.com/#15.00/39.685276/-74.687625/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 Notice how on LIDAR all the braiding marks just disappear in this area. Back upstream of Wescoat a bit and near the active bogs, there are also some sort of...

While poring over Boyd's excellent maps, I noticed something I don't quite know how to interpret. Looking, at, say, the Mullica watershed above Batsto, LIDAR shows that the terrain is entirely filled with braided channels. However, on the lower Mechseatauxin below Wescoat Bogs, the braiding...

That might be a Yankee Candle. From rather peripheral experience to a somewhat similar project, old dense pitch pine stands are pretty worthless as far as timber goes. They can be used for pulp or shavings for animal bedding, probably the latter, unless there's a paper mill closer than I think...

"We are in an era of climate change; it's incumbent on us to do our utmost to preserve these trees that are sequestering carbon." My dude, if you want to sequester carbon, I would suggest you not do it in an ecosystem historically featuring a frequent fire disturbance cycle. Sussex County is...

If they're giving out the permits for free, that sort of puts paid to the "they're doing this because they need revenue" theory...if they were that hard up, they'd at least be levelling some nominal charge to cover the cost of issuing the permits. (And not withstanding the legalities, if the...

It had occurred to me that a permit system more or less encourages a shift in use from those who view driving on unimproved roads as a means to an end, to those who view it as an end in itself--not necessarily an act calculated to improve the condition of the roads! It hadn't occurred to me that...