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I assume it's a combination of the loss of Ted's activity and the general disruption of COVID, which in my experience has knocked a lot of volunteer groups all galley-west just by throwing routines off the tracks. I was sort of expecting Mark and the other usual suspects to have put up a few...

Longtime PBC member (I've met and/or been in the field with you, Russ, oji, Ted, Mark, Terry etc. at various times). My day job is in science and teaching generally, not botany, but I am often out in the field, and I do a certain amount of volunteer restoration work in my own country west of the...

The biggest population I've seen is also at a very accessible site, and on comparatively open dry ground (although I'm sure it gets wetter when the adjacent water level goes up). I looked through some photos I took on one of the savannas last year and some of them were on ground, albeit not bare...

My general experience is that fern and lycophyte gametophytes need at least a tiny patch of bare ground for the spore to germinate. I thought I remembered reading that you could once see gametophytes of S. pusilla in the open at Webbs Mill when the population was in better shape, but I can't...

Sort of related, but does anyone know what successional processes would create areas of bare sand for Schizaea and clubmoss gametophytes to establish? Fire in a dry year? I can see how limited flooding would be marginally helpful in retarding white-cedar growth, but if anything, it would lead to...

I think "Mount" was Joseph's surname. Kobbe says "site of the Alligator" in 1891. From the snippets of Zinkin's "Place Names of Ocean County" I can pull from Google Books, it looks like Garret Hines had a tavern there or near there in 1804, and Joseph Mount in 1837.

Gustav Kobbe has us covered in his guidebook to "The New Jersey Coast and Pines". The Alligator, as one might suspect from the definite article, was a tavern. "derived its name from the figure-head of a wrecked vessel, which was nailed to a tree opposite the tavern". Seems straightforward...

Nice. I was going to poke around for it in Salem Co. this spring, but it was so hectic I never got to it.

Hm. I wouldn't say I fully disagree, but while I'd say there is a gradient in personalities from people who are compulsive rule-followers to the oppositionally defiant, I think in practice a lot of people manage to compartmentalize breaking a particular set of laws without being generally...

I think that's an eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. The plant is some kind of monocot with a glaucous stem, obviously, but I haven't gotten further than that.

No offense, but what's the point of discussing any of this? I think everyone, or almost everyone, on these boards agrees that spungs and asphodel and pine snakes are good and we would like to see more of them and those doing well. So I think we also all agree that people should not be riding...

The little so-and-sos are at it again--I thought the water looked a bit high for the weather, with sundews and clubmoss submerged, and sure enough, they've built a small dam from the shore to and around the deceiver and gotten the water up a few inches.

"Isvec" is the Turkish name for Sweden, which isn't precisely what I'd associate with Eric Mullica! Looking at the samples there, I think the simplest explanation is a draftsman's error: some 19th-century cartographer saw a serif-adorned and slightly smudgy "Loveland" and misread it as...

I mean, that's the statute's language, not Russ's. August 8, 1980 was the original target adoption date for the CMP. As I read it, there's 3 layers to this statute: Driving off the "public highways" in the Pinelands is illegal EXCEPT for areas "designated" by the state or county (maybe that's...

It's awkwardly worded, but the "other motor vehicles" presumably refers to the "No motor vehicle", etc., so I think the second sentence intentionally carves out an exception from the first. The implication seems to be that before 1980, state or local governments designated some areas within the...

I think NJ Rev Stat § 39:3C-33 (2022) may be helpful here: https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/2022/title-39/section-39-3c-33/ 39:3C is otherwise exclusively about off-road vehicles, but this provides the schedule of fines for operating any vehicle ("street-legal" or ORV) on "public...

I was going to say "'it makes no sense'? Tony, have you ever met live teenagers?" but this works too.

There seems to be very little, but then again, a lot of the little scraps of practice in things like Drinker's letter or the Martha diary would be incomprehensible to us without a more full picture of iron operations elsewhere. There's an account of practice at Nassawango Furnace on the...

This seems to match more or less with R.B. Gordon's description of bloomery work (American Iron, pp. 94-97), but on a very small scale: look at the tiny bloom they lift out at the end! He gives a good description of the work, and of the ineffable skill required both in manipulating the materials...

I was hoping you knew! Three hypotheses, in (IMO) increasing order of probability: These areas were never channeled. Seems very unlikely: the flat area isn't raised above the area carved by meltwater and there's no trace of other features that would have sheltered it from runoff. They were...