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I joined a "LiDAR and Aerial Archaeology" group on Facebook and wound up having to mute it. You could post a grayscale picture of a Quarter Pounder meal there and some nimrods would claim in the comments that it was 1) WWII fortifications 2) an Indian mound 3) Civil War trenches 4) an abandoned...

I think in the Kobbe map, "The Alligator" is associated with the small circle at the five-way intersection (which would otherwise be unlabeled), rather than the ridge. It seems reasonably clear that there was an Alligator tavern at that point, judging from the previous thread, for whose name we...

Yeah, sounds right.

Red velvet mites are from the family Trombidiidae, while chiggers are in a different (but more or less closely related) family, Trombiculidae. The latter are only about half a mm long.

Heard an interesting talk on Saturday on how fire suppression is leading to the "mesophication" and disappearance of oak forest throughout the east. It will take some serious adjustment to get us back on track.

The term "truffle" gets used pretty loosely for any cup fungus with fruiting bodies underground; unlike mushrooms and shelf fungi, which drop spores from the gills or pores, truffles have to be dug up and eaten by animals, the spores being dispersed in feces. I don't know whether any of the...

All mushrooms are edible. Some are edible more than once.

He also owned copy 1151 of Witmer Stone's "Bird Studies at Old Cape May".

If I've traced the clues from his postings, the owner died last September. You might try his executor but I expect such effects have already been disposed of: https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/RegOrders/Middleton%2C%20Darrell%20N..pdf

I suspect Google is included in the lawsuit because they have deep pockets, and could be persuaded to settle for a modest sum rather than bring stats about their error-correction program into court. (They probably do correct quite a bit, although I am pretty sure I can find them showing some...

At least when the wildfire hits there will be a Wawa on Red Lion Circle.

Jeff, I should have said it before, but thank you for bringing your discovery here--you're going to wind up connected with the right people to investigate it and preserve it. My remark was based on an 1878 NJ Geological Survey report on the clay deposits of New Jersey. On p. 256, it states...

Somewhat apropos: are there any remains of the Townsend clay pits? The location given for them more or less corresponds to the isolated building marked "D. Townsend" on the 1872 map, but aside from one small flooded hole at the edge of a food plot, I don't see any extensive excavations on LIDAR...

Having lurked here for 20 years before registering, I generally like it here (I would say that, wouldn't I?). I agree the atmosphere is generally good, albeit the last "Where should we be allowed to drive" thread got a bit overripe. I'm glad that didn't cost us anyone permanently. (But I looked...

I looked up the Pemberton Township Zoning Map (dated May 3, 2021) and this particular parcel is zoned "Infill Residential District with Planned Retirement Community Conditional Use". It's the only area in the township so zoned; I presume it got rezoned at some point in the past to permit this...

Oh no, it definitely was a problem! Fine anthracite coal was not readily burned in standard fireboxes during the 19th Century, and was dumped together with waste rock in enormous heaps called "culm piles". From here, of course, the coal fines washed into rivers draining the coalfield, such as...

The aerials are Dallin Aerial Services birds-eye photos. They are also available in the Hagley Digital Collection. (The Hagley might be interested in scanning your album--the original Martha Diary is also deposited there.) I like the little dredge with the shanty on it, and attached pipeline...

Thanks, that gives me some idea. I know if I'm in the mountains, I do give some thought to not putting my hand into, or directly in front of, niches that might accommodate a rattlesnake as it might not give warning. If they're mostly hanging out in open country to thermoregulate that's not very...

Very nice! Saw P. clavellata and P. blephariglottis along the Skit Saturday with a few friends. At an entirely different and distant location, we found an adult Crotalus horridus in some reeds at the water's edge, which was a distinct surprise! Looks like I last saw one of those 11 years ago...

Sori I think are a bit over-emphasized as a character. In my experience, when I was learning ferns, the hardest ones to get a grip on were the very "ferny", lacy ones, which all seemed to blend together to me. Fortunately, we have a relatively sparse fern flora here in the northeast compared to...