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Thanks, Ben, but... The first website ("futirepundit") you "...found quickly through google(sic)..." does, if read thoughtfully, completely, critically, and objectively support my contention that the knee-jerk assertion that corn ethanol is a net energy-loser is: 1.) unproven, 2.) in...

Corn ethanol takes more energy to produce than it returns. Sugarcane ethanol, on the other hand, produces more energy than it takes to make. I've frequenly heard both of these assertions voiced with varying airs of authority and confident self-assuredness, and I'm certainly in no...

Didn't Herr Diesel make his original diesel engine specifically to run on vegetable oil? But then again I'm a strong proponent of corn ethanol, since corn seems to compose about 50% of the Earth's surface when I look out my window.... Dave

There has been much discussion about many of the species of snakes that occur in the pine barrens, Now, how about some speculation on WHY NO COPPERHEADS ??? Here's a pit viper that has a range from Massachusets to southern Illinois and most of Missouri, down to west-central Texas and every...

Interesting. Your observation suggests to me that your "domestic" rough greens had simply found a friendly habitat with an adequate food supply to sustain them that happened to be in the immediate vicinity of adequate hibernation quarters. It would seems that for individuals of many snake...

Oh yeah- i wanted to ask you. Since radio tracking systems cost to much for me, i decided to do it the cheap way! Is it okay to mark the snake's undersides with a black permanet marker? Is this harmful to them? And will the marking stay for a decent ammount of time? Or will it come off the next...

Because capture and removal of the snakes you mention from the natural environment is illegal, those wishing to become active in breeding and release should consider buying captive-bred breeding stock from a supplier who can document that his or her stock originated in the area you wish to...

Is there some reliable evidence that rough green snakes use communal hibernacula (dens)? Dave

Beautiful natural shot of a beautiful snake! Keep up this standard of natural environment snake photography and you've the makings of a great "Photographic Atlas of Snakes of the New Jersey Pine Barrens" Dave

Nobody comes out during the rain and I like the trails to myself on occasion. Me+GoLite Poncho+Gaiters=:mrgreen: Gators? in the Pines? Cedar swamps? Naaaaw ...too far north!.... Oh... ... Gaiters ... them leg thinggies. Never mind .... Emily LaTella

Most of the smaller burmese pythons that are found these days are the result of the species having bred and laid eggs that hatched .. The burmese is now a self-sustaining population in southern FL. The Cuban anole, a lizard, is now established in several regions of Miami. As for birds...

The full-frame view detail suggests the figures were hand cut - rather inexpertly - rather than sandblasted thru a stensil. Having done some stone carving I can't believe a hand carver would put an errant, superfluous serif on the end of the top of the number 5. That top-right down-sweep is...

Do you know of the beaver fields in Lower Alloway Township? Hey, PineyBoy- By "beaver fields" do you mean old beaver ponds (formed behind beaver dams) that eventually silted in and thru which the original stream once again flows in a narrow bed? I had some of these pointed out to me in...

No, I never saw one in the pines, although I recall that it was a species I should be on the look-out for and had hoped to see. I know that the entire southern half or two-thirds of NJ was ostensibly within the range of the bog turtle according to the range map in one of the field guides I used...

My only recollection of Kauffeld recounting a rattler episode from the pines in one of his books was when he took a girlfriend back into the Mt. Misery den to see a rattler there. He also mentioned the same incident in one of the talks he gave at the S.I Zoo. in '54 or '55. On one of my boyhood...

Forgot to mention... you asked about finding "wild" rattlers; I was never aware of having found a domesticated one... Dave

Check the old posts; I recall several mentions, including my own, of finding C. horridus in the pines. One episode I don't think I've related was that of how I found my first (and only) rattler hibernaculum in the pines. On a warm May day I was hiking along a small crick and in detouring...

My wife fell in love with the pines after her first visit - and a leisurely float trip down the Batsto on a crystal clear, crisp October day. She later learned to take the heat and wee noisome critters in stride. Dave