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What kind of oaks, Boyd? Here in the Piedmont, I don't feel like I see as many young oaks as I should. I wonder if scrub oaks coming up by root sprouting are better sustained by the root network when gnawed? Or maybe the scrub oaks (chinkapin excepted) are less palatable?

The pointer is centered in one of the flat zones here: https://boydsmaps.com/#15.00/39.685276/-74.687625/mbx3dmidatl/0.00/0.00 Notice how on LIDAR all the braiding marks just disappear in this area. Back upstream of Wescoat a bit and near the active bogs, there are also some sort of...

While poring over Boyd's excellent maps, I noticed something I don't quite know how to interpret. Looking, at, say, the Mullica watershed above Batsto, LIDAR shows that the terrain is entirely filled with braided channels. However, on the lower Mechseatauxin below Wescoat Bogs, the braiding...

That might be a Yankee Candle. From rather peripheral experience to a somewhat similar project, old dense pitch pine stands are pretty worthless as far as timber goes. They can be used for pulp or shavings for animal bedding, probably the latter, unless there's a paper mill closer than I think...

"We are in an era of climate change; it's incumbent on us to do our utmost to preserve these trees that are sequestering carbon." My dude, if you want to sequester carbon, I would suggest you not do it in an ecosystem historically featuring a frequent fire disturbance cycle. Sussex County is...

If they're giving out the permits for free, that sort of puts paid to the "they're doing this because they need revenue" theory...if they were that hard up, they'd at least be levelling some nominal charge to cover the cost of issuing the permits. (And not withstanding the legalities, if the...

It had occurred to me that a permit system more or less encourages a shift in use from those who view driving on unimproved roads as a means to an end, to those who view it as an end in itself--not necessarily an act calculated to improve the condition of the roads! It hadn't occurred to me that...

The status of that bit of the road shows up in the Evesham Township road map as "Other", which suggests to me that it's not maintained by the township at all. I don't know if it was formally vacated by the township or if the abutting property owners just consented to maintain it (or not) by...

To revert to manumuskin's question, I, too, have been wondering about the DEP's authority to close these roads. There is relatively recent (2015) New Jersey case law establishing that "by-roads" are still recognized in New Jersey. A private road that has been used, uninterruptedly, by the public...

I haven't been able to corner him just yet, but as a general rule I'd consider it near-miraculous for an academic to be able to *find* their notes from 50 years ago, let alone extract GPS coordinates, and he runs a pretty busy lab...on the other hand, as a Bargain Basement academic, I can tell...

Were you asking Tom directly? Was riding the bus to a field trip with him yesterday (we're at a conference) and he's glad to know things are still perking away in the wet savannas. I can try to get him to show me on a Google Map if I run into him again, which is likely.

No! That's one of the advantages of the foundation structure. We do have to sign waivers, get logged in a DCNR database, and they just rolled out a new policy on sawyer training, but we are covered. (I think one of our people got workman's comp from the state after sustaining a minor chainsaw...

Russ, it sounds like they're following the model we use here in Pennsylvania (don't know if we originated it). The basic idea, as I heard it explained to me, was that our DCNR (=DEP) people anticipated funding cuts, more deferred maintenance, and so on, and wanted to set up a structure that...