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It’s been a good year, so I’d like to go over some high points. Back in 2023, while Bob was conducting surveys on known Swamp Pink locations, I told him of an area that had good potential for finding Swamp Pinks based on its habitat; a slow moving, defined pure clean stream meandering under the...

With Bob's excursions to Cape May County, got back to my oak tree project. Back in the fall of 2022, I tried to find and ID as many species of Oaks I could. I came across this one. Big HINT: It is not a Scarlet Oak. So what species of Oak is it.

On this thread, I will be posting the Monthly Management Report issued by the NJ Pinelands Commission. One may find items of interest within this Report. The first Report is for February 2024. https://www.nj.gov/pinelands/infor/online/Feb_2024_Mgt_Rpt_Final.pdf

Back in 2018, I generated a post on mushrooms. Those were comfined to a one day trip along Bispham Mill Creek. The ones below I found while exploring the Pines over the years. Are mushrooms a plant? https://asm.org/Articles/2021/January/Three-Reasons-Fungi-Are-Not-Plants...

Bog bacteria is a autotrophic bacteria living in a zone where ground water, de-oxygented by microrganisms feeding on organic-rich swamp beneath, meets the air. The video at the of the Post can explain things. All the photos below were taken at one of the bog iron sites that I had visted over...

Yesterday, I did my annual Birthday run. Last year I did a 7.7 mile run. Plagued with some running injuries this past year, I decided to cut it back to 5 miles, but do it a place that I enjoyed for the past 15 years, The NJ Pine Barrens. I started out at the Atsion Ranger Station. Ran up...

For me to experience the full appreciation of what the Pine Barrens has to offer, I like to adventure 'off the beaten path' deep in the woods and maybe find places that no one has been in a long time. Recently, I sorted though many of my old photos. There's a selected few. (Another batch of...

This link was just uploaded on the Web today. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-jersey/scenic-country-road-trip-nj/ Here's a youtube video of two couples visiting the Allen's Clam Bar. My fishing buddy of 67 years had mentioned this place a couple times to me. But he goes there for the clams.

I started roaming the Pines in 2009. Over the years I had accumulated many photos along the way. Recently, I weeded out many. Here are a few archive photos showing my past experiences of 'what's going on' in those woods. (Stay tune; I got another set of 10 coming soon.) An outlet from an...

While exploring the Pines for the past 12 years, I have discovered many handmade bridges, or remnants of, that takes you across streams, tributaries, canals, and in swamps. In almost all cases, bushwhacking was required to find them. Here's 5 bridges that cross streams that are labeled on NJPB...

My Great Grandfather (X 9), Ralph Farnham, arrived in Boston in 1635. Shortly after, the family surname got changed to Farnum. Three generations later some Farnum families were some of the first pioneering settlers in what is now known the State of Maine. At the 6th generation, one child at...

Here's a few photos I have taken over the years looking at the Pines at a different perspective. This is what makes the Pines so unique. I'm stuck. He later thanked me.

https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/nootkatone-now-registered-epa

I found this blue colored mushroom in a cedar swamp in Penn State Forest. I've seen many different mushrooms in the Pines, this is the first blue one. Checking my field guide on Mushrooms of Northeast North America I can't get a firm ID. I should have taken a pic of the underside, but...

I went down to the Pines last Wednesday. Passing the North and South Gate of FPP, the lots were full. Where I went, four different places, I didn't see a sole or vehicle. That's nothing different then any other time I go. Being retired, I only go on weekdays. Wanna get away...…. Here's a...

Today is 02/02/2020 -- the first global palindrome day in 909 years. At just after 2am it was 02:02:20 on 02/02/2020. The next will come in 101 years on 12/12/2121 and after that not until 03/03/3030. At least there was one in our lifetime.

Yesterday, while out roaming the burn area west of Stevenson Rd, I came upon the ruins of an old campsite. Among the debris, there was an old kerosene lantern, and these tools shown in the photo below. Does anyone have an idea the real purpose for these tools? Ron

Recently, my wife and I spent a good part of a week in Taos, New Mexico. We were home for just one week and then spent another week in Georgia visiting my youngest Son and Family. While in NM, I hiked one of the more popular trails in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains located in the most southern...

Here's some photos from my outings in the hot Pines this past month. Lycopodiella caroliniana (Carolina Club moss) On State Endangered List as S3. Thanks Bob, for the ID Utricularia purpurea (Purple Bladderworts) I liked the pattern Cedar Waxwing (first time sighting) Schizaea pursilla...

The Cedars at Sykes. The title sounds like an age-restricted community, but no, it's cedar swamps along the Sykes Branch deep in the heart of the NJ Pine Barrens. With majestic tall straight Atlantic White Cedars, hummocks, water everywhere, sphagnum moss abound, squishy ground, and at this...