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I trolled through the State Police Facebook post comments so you don't have to. Supposedly her car was found hydrolocked in a hole on Lost Lane "the day she went missing". (4/13?) Someone pulled it out and posted it to the "NJ Stuck in the Mud" Facebook group. It looks like she may have been...

Nah, that was the last part. It's mostly little fragments carefully extracted by targeted searches in Google Books, the Library of Congress newspaper database (patchy but still useful!) and some other odds and ends. I find writing up pieces like this helps me integrate what I've been learning...

Part 3: A Pack of Princes The Almanach de Gotha, that famous handbook of European nobility, lists the five sons of Prince Mario Ruspoli: Costantino Carlo Michele Agustino (b. July 8, 1891) Marescotti Carlo Maurizio Gilberto (b. October 17, 1892) Alessandro Edmondo Eugenio (b. May 14, 1895)...

Part 2: Don't count your chickens, unless they're insured The tract salvaged from the Chatsworth Park Company was presumably what Trail of the Blue Comet refers to as Godfrey's "share of the Beers lands" (p. 197), transferred in 1908 to the newly-formed Chatsworth Estates Company (of New...

I think most of us are familiar with the story of the Ruspolis and the rise and fall of the Chatsworth Park Company and the Chatsworth Club, as recounted by Beck and McPhee. However, on carefully examining some of the scraps of evidence, there are parts of the story that are a little more...

This is New Jersey, that's not a bar to various forms of political involvement.

Happy International Beaver Day, everyone!

That's a blog? It looked like one of those news aggregators that remixes other articles and runs ads. I figured they picked up an old notice and ran it with the wrong date.

DEP Guy 1: I'll bet you $200 I can close a road and get the locals to cheer me on. DEP Guy 2: You're on. Anyway, what GermanG said: the real value here is not in the cedars. (In fact, they could eventually be a problem if deer browse doesn't keep them down.) It would be nice to see a...

They were generally called "marsh companies" in Delaware, and equivalents existed in Pennsylvania along the tidal Delaware as well. I am sure that similar companies existed for clearing the till-clogged waterways in parts of glaciated New Jersey and New York (cf. Beck, "The Shades of Death")...

Maybe it worked too well.

I found the GPS trace from that trip in 2010. Looks like we drove down the south branch of the road to the junction in Bob's aerial above, then parked in that sort of wide spot on the firebreak and crossed the tributary of the Sleeper to get into Wescoat Bogs. Somehow I don't remember it being...

I noticed that one. I remember driving partway to Wescoat Bogs on a field trip with Ted years ago; I don't remember at what point we started walking account of sugar sand, although we might have gotten all the way up Dave's Road to Atsion-Batsto. When I checked it out last winter, it was in much...

Jason, I don't quite follow your point here. You seem (I don't want to put words into your mouth) to be implying one or both of the following: Bill has lobbied for fossil fuel companies, developers, etc., so when he opposes the MAP, he's doing so on their behalf. But this is classic ad hominem...

There's an unexpected connection between Roger Conant and Witmer Stone I worked out when tracing the history of a plant specimen collected by Conant. He was mostly known as a herpetologist, of course, but he picked it up during a herping trip to the "Dutch Mountain" area of northern...

Not a lawyer, but I was on a jury once. ;) My impression from looking into this last year is that once a public road is established in New Jersey, either explicitly by ordnance or implicitly by the creation of a prescriptive easement, it has to be abolished by legislation. That is, the elected...

It's good that there's low potential for abuse. I'm just thinking about one of the issues raised on one of the MAP threads, that some of the "roads" in Wharton, etc., are firebreaks or things like this that weren't ever intended to be roads. I think it's perfectly reasonable for the Forest...

Thread crossover, but did they barricade/block the entrance of the newly cut road now that they're done with it?

If that was true, Tony would have been banned when he called Jon a liar for recounting a story of what happened on his (Jon's) own property. Anyone can look at Tony's post history and see that he doesn't have anything useful to say on these boards, and furthermore, he's already said it. I know...

Huh. Apparently young specimens of destroying angels do look like puffballs, but you see the shape of the stalk and cap when you slice them open. I had no idea. Apropos of the Pines, while knocking about with more mycologically-inclined friends this summer, they pointed out the fine appearance...