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Carranza to Bass River. That's quite a hike, even if you're going to stay the night!

Hot turkey love But Bob, the poor snake may be the one who may become ill or even die. You're idea sounds better, Farmer Bob. When I worked in a state park years ago, there were certain individuals who used to like to make holes in the partitions between the hoppers in the rest rooms and...

I learned the death happened at the Batona Campground, at the edge of the Batona Trail just a short distance down the road from the Carranza Memorial, if you're heading toward Friendship. The campground is just a short drive down a sand road from the paved road that runs past the memorial...

Sorry to hear you didn't like the movie. I couldn't find reviews from critics I'm familiar with, but I did an engine search and found reviews of the movie from three unknowns, who all more or less echoed your sediments. The reviewers basically said that it was a mindless, cheap, cliche-like...

The last time I looked, which was in the past few months, Matthew, the rock painted as an American flag along route 539 was still there. I occasionally drive along 539 from Allentown, NJ, sometimes all the way to where it ends on route 9 and have noticed it. "Oh, there's that rock," I say...

Maybe someone killed a snake. Or perhaps it was the Jersey Devil, who was annoyed that it got a bad review.

Nice Cruiser! It's good that the state repaired the road to allow people to continue along it. If I'm not mistaken, the route all of you took parallels the Basto after you turn right shortly after crossing Quaker Bridge and then turns right after the junction where the road closed to...

Evidence of the Benefits of Thinning That's subject to change, Ben. I'm a bit burnt out right now but once I get up a head of steam maybe I'll do some posting there. I have a way of stirring things up, for better or for worse. As Oscar Wild said, there's only one thing worse than being...

Evidence of the Benefits of Thinning It is tough to turn decades of thinking around, but do not be faint of heart, there has been progress in getting people to realize that wise, responsible management is the way to protect the environment for all to enjoy. Just look at the state's plan to...

Evidence of the Benefits of Thinning You're right, trying to reason using science and common sense is like yelling into a storm. With SOME people, such as the tree hugging disciples of Henry David Thoreau. You'll never convince the leaders of groups such as the Sierra Club. Some of the...

Read all about it. A movie, filmed in the Pine Barrens, opened at select New Jersey theatres on Friday. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5619004&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 The Pine Barrens, and it denizen, the Jersey Devil, after 200 years, still captures the public's awe...

I agree that dirt bikes, ATV's and such should avoid environmentally sensitive areas and use an area within its capacity to handle the impact. The problem Ben and I have is the blanket ban of these vehicles. A place such as the gravel pits, as you mentioned, German, would meet this...

I'm curious as to why someone would cut the pitch pine trees and leave the oaks. I would think it would be better to have it the other way around. I wonder what reason they had for doing this. As we discussed earlier on PBE, the oaks burn hotter, which would intensify a forest fire; the pitch...

Now look at forest area A that was not thinned and compair it to area B that was. Read this report and decide for yourselves if this is a good idea for the national forests as well as the Pine Barrens. http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/press/2002/2002_1001CAFire.htm

While some of the ideas, such as keeping vehicles on the roads, sand and paved, are good, I agree that some of this is extreme. A blanket ban on ORV's, extreme fines for even a minor violation, red tape, etc., does smell like opportunism, a back door way to keep people out of the forest. We'll...

Here's President Bush's plan to thin forests, and the reason for it, straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthyforests/sect1.html

What's there to wonder about, German? I never said that logging is a cure all. I wonder about you that you wonder about me. People indeed do have different ideas on managment, the science of it as well as the political, human side of it. There are different interests that use the Pine...

He's another Dr. Truth link, one that I was going to put before the original one I posted but after having left PBE, couldn't modify my last post. It gets more quickly to the logging issue. http://www.greenspirit.com/logbook/the_log.cfm?booknum=4

Opps! I mistakenly said that the name the eco-extremists called Patrick Moore which he proudly adopted was "Dr. Science." The correct name is "Dr. Truth." He's some truth from Dr. Truth: http://www.greenspirit.com/logbook/the_log.cfm?booknum=4&page=2

There you go again, Bob! What have we reaped as a result of the disciples of Thoreau managing the forest for the past few decades? Hummmmm? You reap what you sow! We are not longer in the colonial days. You live here, don't you? So do many other people. This phase is over. Remember the...