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According to an article in the NYT today they have no natural predators here, and there is no agreement on a control regime at this point. They do a lot of damage to fruit and other crops, so the government is looking at it, but they don't really have a clue on them yet.

Oh great, so I have stinkbug love potion on my neck.

They're everywhere up here, clinging to the screens, crawling on the railings. I just smelled a weirdly awful smell and felt a tickling on my neck and found one there. I didn't think they sprayed unless threatened or crushed, but I'm guessing the bug and the smell weren't a coincidence. They're...

I'll accept your account of your motivations at face value, but to me it seemed as if you jumped in to be inflammatory. As far as your characterization of the social atmosphere on this site, I reject that completely.

If mentioning that I was SE of Hampton is opening the door to yet another thread on 1/4 mile, then I'd like to know what radius around that site we should exclude from our posts to avoid the same thing happening again.

But it isn't an ORV/ATV thread, is it? Or perhaps it is now.

All I'm saying is that it wasn't necessary to bring 1/4 Mile into a post about dry conditions. You did so for your own reasons. I had no thought of that stretch or of mudding and all that controversy when I made the post, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't in any danger of getting flamed by the good...

The roads we were on: High Crossing Rd., Hay Rd., and a road that is not on this map, but which is on my french GPS unit as '4WD Rd.', so it is in somebody's database. I'm not afraid of being ticketed anywhere I go in the pines. I've been stopped. I'm polite and I tell them what they want to...

Really? I did 20+ miles in Wharton on Saturday and I didn't feel even a little bit apprehensive. Now if I had 35" rubber and mud caked an inch thick all over the truck I guess I would feel somewhat conspicuous.

As far as I know we never left marked roads, and I think your post would generally be characterized as trolling or threadcrapping, depending on your perspective.

Well, my report of an excursion yesterday may have been overrun by actual weather events, if it is raining as steadily down south this afternoon as it is up here. Yesterday my friend Jack and I took the dogs and trucks and ventured into the area southeast of Hampton Furnace that is the normal...

Thanks a ton, Trailhead! That's perfect. Really appreciate that.

You'll have to hope it will charge up during the brief sunlit interludes in the meadows :).

Awesome. Thanks a lot for the tips and links, gents.

So we recently became a three-car family, having picked up an '01 Sentra sedan for my oldest daughter to use for work and school. It seems like a good car so far, but it has a lot of power accessories. One of the things that surprised me when I started looking, since I hadn't bought a used...

It's a hobby that has always fascinated me, because of the potential of finding cool or valuable lost articles. I purchased a cheap detector a few years back just to play with it, but quickly realized that finding anything takes a lot of time. I have the patience to spend a Saturday carefully...

The money they spend fixing ruts, and the access issues that torn-up roads cause for hikers, bikers, equestrians, etc., will eventually get private vehicles banned from the forest, or at least that would be my prediction.

Certain types of people in this country are just in love with the idea of mass transit. It's a deep, romantic, yearning love, unfettered by any connection with the realities of population density and operating costs. And some other people are addicted to pork.

I think you's all been trolled!

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