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Read all about it. A movie, filmed in the Pine Barrens, opened at select New Jersey theatres on Friday. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5619004&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 The Pine Barrens, and it denizen, the Jersey Devil, after 200 years, still captures the public's awe...

Now look at forest area A that was not thinned and compair it to area B that was. Read this report and decide for yourselves if this is a good idea for the national forests as well as the Pine Barrens. http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/press/2002/2002_1001CAFire.htm

Here's President Bush's plan to thin forests, and the reason for it, straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthyforests/sect1.html

This land is your land, this land is my land. One view of land use management doesn't see it this way. This view, as is reflected in the decision to proclaim the GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT, allows a select group of environmentalists to meet behind closed doors, dictating...

On my way back from my excursion to Lower Forge yesterday, driving on Quaker Bridge road, somewhere between the cutoff to the Mullica River Campsite and the abandoned railroad tracks, driving towards route 206, wiggling across the road, starting near the edge of a bog that abuts Quaker Bridge...

Yesterday I parked off Quaker Bridge Road, just before Quaker Bridge and hiked with my daughter and dog to the Lower Forge Wilderness Campsite. I hadn't been there in awhile (I even called it Old Forge mistakenly on the STICK SHELTERS topic). Lower Forge is a very scenic, peacefull area. To...

On my last Shore/Pine Barrens excursion I found the boardwalk at Webbs Bog. It was too late in the day to explore the area, but at least I found it. I left Gravel Point at Mystic Island shortly before sunset and I didn't get to Webbs Bog until late dusk. The trail that leads to the boardwalk...

In a recent congressional hearing, a professor of forestry at Texas A&M advocated a view of forest management quite similar to the way the forest is being managed in the Pine Barrens. Addressing how to protect communities from what he calls monster forest fires, the professor said that the...

Recently I went exploring around the Quaker Bridge area. But before I did, I sprayed a homemade recipe for repelling ticks and other pests. Although I brushed up against strubs and vines, etc, only one tick managed to try to hitch a ride. It was tiny and must have just gotten on. I don't...

The fire that started Monday near a cranberry bog near Double Trouble State Park inconvenienced motorists on the Garden State Parkway and folks had to temporarily evacuate their homes, but the fire supposedly only burned, including back burning, about 1500 acres, a bit smaller than other fires...

Yesterday I took a hike to revisit Lower Forge, parking away from the road just past Quaker Bridge. It is quite a nice area, with a rise above the Basto River and bog and swamp islands in the stream, good material for a landscape painter. But after enjoying Lower Forge, I decided to explore...

In my search for a good map of the Pine Barrens, I came across this excellent article which discusses how water formed under the Pine Barrens and what it means today, how fire helps regulate the ecology of the Pine Barrens, the plant and animal life of the Pine Barrens, and the different...

I carried the discussion you and I were having on the NEWSPAPER ARTICLE topic in General Discussion, Barry, to this post, after having done a short engine search. According to the article on the link I found, although phragmites is an invasive species, it is a good place for birds and a marsh...

I've been following the fuel reduction plan congress has been working on to protect communities from wildfire. I understand and appreciate the controlled burning plan in New Jersey to clear under growth to help keep fires from spreading. But, as discussed by the Feds and advocated by former...