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Sounds delicious, S-M Like a bucket o' wings at the end of a Superbowl party. There's an exhibit in the library on North Haven Island off the coast of Rockland, Maine, where they excavated villages of the "Red Paint People." Evidently, there are several sites in Maine: "Perhaps the first to...

Great photos, Spung-Man. I never would have guessed that those things had a creamy nougat center.

This caught me eye because of my interest in the Welsh Quakers of Pennsylvania. "Rowland Ellis" was the Welsh Quaker responsible for bringing the place name "Bryn Mawr" with him from Wales (http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-ELLI-ROW-1650.html ). It's fascinating to learn that there was evidently a...

I had a client this week who was proposing to drain stormwater that exceeds > 100 yr flow onto some adjoining light rail tracks. I sent them Jerseyman's article (and a link to the Blue Comet book), and the below snippet of Guy's initial post in this thread. I got back a great email yesterday: "I...

Cover page - nice! http://www.citypaper.net/cover_story/2011-06-09-new-jersey-pine-barrens.html

"The Bethlehem Steel Company did not take Washington into its confidence in planning for the vast land purchase—so vast that 250 deeds were recorded at the county offices at May’s Landing, and the signatures of more than 1000 persons, sought in every State in the country, into the greatest...

Thanks for all the useful feedback, 46er, Piney Mike, and Buschwacker. That's a pretty great list of resources on those webpages, 46er. Buschwacker, thanks for the heads-up. My friend is a lawyer, and, as an officer of the court, I'm sure he'll want to be properly credentialed. On the...

More on Vernal Pools I think what's going on is this: 1) the one-acre loophole existed in the 1989 "NJ Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act;" the law that was passed in 2001 along with the regs subsequently issued by NJDEP were evidently aimed at closing the loophole; 2) the burden of...

A friend of mine who lives in Chester County, PA, spends time in the summer at the shore, and is looking for a place near the NJ shore where he can take his sons shooting. Any ideas?

I found this phrase particularly eloquent: Your post was a great example of how much there is to see when we stop overlooking and simply stop to look.

Great summary, Scott, and my sentiments exactly. It did my heart good to realize that here's a man who has written several important books, and that he wrote his first one at age 76 -- that's an inspiration for those of us who are definitely in the second half of this ballgame.

Largo, Thanks very much for making the ticket available, and I am happy to have been able to be a member of inverted table 5, and to have the up close and personal opportunity to observe your aeronautic skills. In the immortal words of Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, "I was a better man with...

Thanks for the info, I was down there late this afternoon, too, and I don't have much skill at species id, so I appreciate it. I loved watching the dunlin (or whatever they were) in synchronized flight.

Thanks, Guy, I think it's right now. No question that the link in your post was moved by them: "phillyBurbs.com is upgrading to a new content management system. There will be some outages and broken links during the transition. Thank you for your patience." Dave

Guy, Thanks for the heads up. That link now leads to a dead end, but, with your info in hand, I found the event description on the Pinelands Commissions webpage http://www.nj.gov/pinelands/about/events/; from there, you can download a .pdf with the registration/brochure, complete with a...

The "back pasture" is almost certainly part of Stafford Woods.

Spung-Man, Where would one sign up? Pinelands Alliance? What's up there now mentions only a November 2008 course. Dave P.S. Never mind ... Guy has since pointed out in another thread http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showthread.php?t=5981 that the Pinelands Commissions begins its...

Spung-Man, Thanks for opening my eyes to the wonderful word "transhumance" (Wikipedia says "trans" = "across" + "humus" = ground), which remains an accurate description of the activity that takes place along that trail, particularly between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Does "transhumance"...

Which reminds me of when I lived in Minneapolis back in the early 80s, and the natives called them "The Viqueens." But the best story about the Viqueens from those days was "good ol'" Bud Grant, the stone-faced coach of the "frozen tundra" Vikings, who was then in his final years as coach...

Semi-Urban Beaver? Thanks for posting the pictures, Kaugie125. They clued me in to something that I saw today I probably would have missed if I hadn't looked at your pictures last night. I was hanging out today in a pretty urban environment (i.e., a stream bank along the Camden-Burlington...