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American Radio Relay League 30 Jun 2016 Bulletin The Burlington County Radio Club will be activating the Carranza Memorial Special Event Station! Look for N2M (New York 2 (to) Mexico) from July 4 thru July 10. On July 9th they will be live from the Carranza Memorial Site before and during the...

Last Saturday Ro and I were part of joint botanical/entomological group visit to FPP. At one point the crowd was inspecting flower species in an area with young, 6 to 7 foot Pitch Pines. I noticed some people photographing shoulder-high "candles" - new growth/inflorescences - on one tree...

Wharton SF was largely bought with the purchase of the Wharton Tract. How and when was Brendan Byrne/Lebanon SF bought - accumulation of small parcels,or what?

Saturday Ro & I enjoyed a morning in Brendan Byrne SF with Karl Anderson, learning how to identify lichens, their various shapes and habitats, etc. Fascinating. We saw lichens on trees, in tree bark crevices, on stone building walls, on concrete sidewalk. Lichens are a combination of a fungus...

Yesterday Ro and I were driving on US 206 and saw new signs at the Paradise Lake road, so we drove in. Close to the camp entrance there was a lot of grading, tree removal. We drove into the camp, at the little guard house there was a sign "Camp Jam". Much grading, etc., but no new buildings...

Here's an article in a recent issue of a local paper. <http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/new-jersey-animals-plants-get-attention-before-they-re-endangered/article_7bef70be-fe75-11e5-a298-d3a4c7c7b006.html>

This strangely named road starts on Rte 54 and runs roughly northwest. Anyone have info on why the strange name? Speaking of which, we noticed a street sign in Glamssboro: "No Name Road". That set some kind of a record. There must be an interesting story behind why it got that moniker.

Other places have flowers for spring ephemerals; the Pines have flag displays. Photo below was taken on the east side of Chatsworth-Tuckerton Road just east of intersection with Lost Lane. Picture was taken on 20 Mar 2017. There was another of these a bit further east - didn't have means to...

While wandering around our favorite NJ area - Delaware Bay shore - we passed over Pickle Factory Pond dam, and noticed the concrete building ruins at the dam and adjacent woods. Was there really a pickle factory there? When? Any other interesting stuff about it? Ro also noticed that the road is...

<http://www.njconservation.org/pressreleases/showpressrelease.cfm?prid=161>

Here's a robot that can tackle a PBX. VERY impressive engineering. Kinda scary if you're jumpy about things duplicating us.......

Ro found a newspaper release about the NYPL making available on-line 20,000 digitized maps in high definition. Here's the map link: <http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/new-york-public-library-puts-20000-hi-res-maps-online.html>. A bonanza for map freaks like me, but just another demand on...

Springfield Township Historical Society presents: “Before Smithville: Shreveville” a PowerPoint presentation by Barb Johns of Mt. Holly exploring this textile company town from brothers Jonathan Lippincott Shreve and Samuel Shreve’s lives before Shreveville to the success of the company town...

Saw a sign on the sand road leading out of the parking lot for the start of the Batona Trail off Stage Road: "Martha Bridge 7.7 miles". Puddles on road too daunting for our new Escape. So, where is Martha Bridge? It's not on my Delorme map.

Ro & I were on a birding/photography trip along the coast - Avalon to Cape May - last Sunday. We stopped at Cape May Point - only a few Herring Gulls. The concrete ship wreck is slowly disappearing, so we took pictures to record it as of January 2016.

Heard thunder tonight here in Leisuretowne at a little after 5 pm. 87 years and that's a first for me anywhere on the East Coast for Christmas Day.

Picture below was taken looking west on Island Road in Mansfield Twp just over the line from Springfield Twp. I'd thought the County project would extend along the old right away alongside Columbus road in Springfield Twp since there's a paved section running from Jobstown to the Township park...

Attached is a picture taken on 04 Dec 2015 of the demolition of the NIKE radar site on the northwest corner. I was curious to see what had happened to the missile bunkers but believe they may have been located elsewhere in the overall NIKE complex, most of which is gone. Put this up for posterity.

Our Macs format fotos in jpeg and offer export in TIFF, PDF, etc., but not jpg. Tried to post a jpeg foto on here and it was rejected. Ben said to use jpg, but I couldn't find a translator. Finally I looked up "jpeg/jpg" on Wikipedia and found out - THEY'RE THE SAME THING! So I erased the...

Yesterday Ro spotted 3 White Throated Sparrows in our back yard - facing the preserve in back of us. They're here over 3 weeks earlier than their usual appearance from up North. Do they know something about the coming winter?