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I don't have a problem with it, I just like to collect demographics as I can then have a better idea of what people would like to see on the site. A former student of mine, who is also an amateur herpetologist, called and happened to mention that he was attempting to breed pine snakes. He...

Looks like you had a good trip! That was a handsome big pilot black! One reminder about "...rippin' open logs..." Every likely log you rip open is one less likely egg-laying site for kings, milks, scarlets, ring necks, hog-noseds, and even corns and racers (if it's a large log). I agree...

Can you believe it? I'd actually forgotten the chiggers. How could one ever? Yeah. Thanks a lot... Dave

Ben- Many thanks for your reference to the La-Ha-Way article. I'm in you debt for having relieved me of life-long ignorance of the hermit and his chosen environs. I am daily impressed anew at the wondeful resource that is this website. Dave

Hey, Swwit- Where would I find reference to Williams' work on the possible intergradation of L.triangulum x L. d. temporalis? Sounds interesting, 'though I'll admit to some doubt. Any DNA comparisons been done? Dave

Thanks, Dom, for a wonderfully comprehensive history of the place. So, among its names over time have been both "Pinehurst" and "Pinewald". Thanks to you I've regained a bit or regard for my long-term memory -as well as for my Dad's! And where in Texas be ye? I lived there (for 11 years, 8...

Brandon- I've never seen a claim for the scarlet king snake (Lampropeltis d. diolata) existing in the pines. Kauffeld stated that the coastal plain milk snake (L.temporalis -also termed L. d. temporalis) was found from NJ to Virginia. I'm not aware of any claim or substantiation that the...

Hey, Jeff- I just saw your comment from June 24th - hadn't realized I'd missed it. Good points about fire-resistant cones of some of the pines. I wasn't aware of that, but certainly have long been aware that without fire the pine barrens, in their various forms, wouldn't exist. On every trip...

Thanks for finding that article and bringing it to our attention. I'd heard of the "Hermit" but had no idea he was such a keen observer of nature. The obvious comparison to Thoreau was conspicuous by its absence - and I'll have to cogitate some more before I'm not sure if that was or was not...

Memory cards? Depending on your camera, a 64 Mb card won't hold many shots at maximum quality and resolution, but if you've a number of them and are facile at quickly changing them out, go with it. I've long since stopped buying them retail. I've bought several to many of two different...

Sorry, Bob- I blew it on the title of Conant's book. I couldn't find it in my library, but did find the loan-out card - it was borrowed by an old friend who , sadly, is no longer with us. I didn't realize that I hadn't tried to find that book in my collection since 1987! Maybe I oughtta...

You betchum, Red Ryder- In spite of the shadows, the ghost pattern sure looks rattler-ish! For a snake THAT SIZE the strongly keeled scales it exhibits are shared in the pines only by pinesnakes and northern watersnakes. A number of smaller species also have keeled scales. If the head...

Bob- In the mid 50s there were newspaper stories of a box turtle found somewhere out on Long Island with some initials and a date from the early 19th century carved in the plastron - both were quite worn but, from the published photograph, still legible - that would have put that individual in...

The satellite view with Google maps of Upton are more recent than those with Terraserve. The first house immediately to the W of the railbed and N of Rt. 70 sits on the site of Asa's old place - or at least overlaps the SE corner of Asa's house/cabin. What amazing views! Dave

O.K., Bob- I logged off, sat quietly, and studied a strong dram of single malt; two, actually. Got back online, went to terraserve ( that's an unbelievable resourse! Can't thank you enough for it!) went to Lakehurst, and took a slow drive SE on 70 to Upton. It appears as if the abandoned...

Yeah, Bob - I think you're right. I wish you weren't, but I'm sure you are. When I stop and collect my thoughts and think about it I know that I shouldn't be surprised at all the streets and houses ... But ... oh ... my ... God... Whew! I was going to ask someone for the...

In a recent thread (don't recall which one...) I mentioned a place my dad had told me about that was a moonshiner's location back in prohibition and which I'd visited many years later on a herping expedition. Some of you suggested it might be near Bayville - a name I didn't recall. I still...

YESSSS! "Pomona Fruit Company! That WAS the name of Joe Palmer's business in '60 when I worked for him. Damn! I hate to lose memories. Thanks, Rich, for helping me recover that one. I do know that Joes was a Penn Stater and I think his wife, Libby, was also. He often talked about the...

Rich- That's great information and I appreciate it. If I ever knew that Joe Palmer was operating bogs for Lib's father, I've purely forgotten it! As for Joe Palmer having a New Gretna address ... when I worked for him he had a small warehouse-storage building there where he stored some of...