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I know this area fairly well.Have crossed this swamp in a couple places but never went the length of it.It's fairly open at canopy level but dense underneath.lotta old corduroy roads crossing it and it"s obviously been logged in the pas.Don"t know why they missed this big mamma.The creek is...

I went to crossley for the first time last week and really was impressed with the man made snake hibernaculums.I had toyed in my mind with building some of my own but didn"t know if snakes would take to a man made shelter.Wasn"t sure if we could build to suit their requirements.It appears we can...

here is what I posted.I was at the clay graves today after not visiting them for about six months and someone has put new plastic flowers on them and left a plastic jar with a typed note in it that claims he is celebrating the birth or death of Louisa May on july 13th out to the graves with...

I was at Aetna and Cumberland furnaces today with Whipoorbill and a question came up.Why are they covered in dirt which someone went to great lengths to rmove at cumberland?I have found many ruins in the woods and most don"t seem to be nearl as covered over as these furnaces.They seem to be...

http://www.pinebarrens.org/index.php while searching for info on the NY shawangunk pine barrens (just what I always wanted.my two favorite terrains in one,mountains and barrens) I found this site.thought Y"all might be interested. Al

I was surfing my topo cd"s today while working terraserver on another screen looking for more places to explore,mainly islands in swamps and marshes.(I"m obsessed with islands especially those that are hard to access) and I was checking out swamps in the lower wading watershed when I rehappened...

I used to live in belleplain in the late 80"s early 90"s and spent all available time I could in the woods.I read becks books and a few others and was forever trying to find sites he talked about or just going out with a topo and huntin cellar holes.I worked belleplain forest,peaslees and head...

I was out in the Millville wildlife management area today just south of the airport along Buckshutem road checking out an area I had been thru maybe fifteen years ago but hadn"t rally explored,just passed thru.The area is obviously disturbed from the road as the woods are all virginia pine with...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Their is a small settlement I noticed on the maps and found on the ground while searching for the graves.All that I found other then obvious disturbed ground was what appeared to be a small shallow cellar hole.Does...

I was checking the old maps again today and noticed their was a clearing listed there back then.Was there a settlement there?when? Also their are ruins along the road from Oswego lake out to Simms bogs about a mile past oswego lake on the right heading east.What was this place.Their is one...

Went out this morning and found the clay works graves finally!Then went to half way and looked for the old well mentioned by Beck but didn"t find that though I did find half a dozen cellar holes the clay miners missed.then went and checked out BEHR"s new road.weird small cellar holes every few...

I was exploring bear swamp hill and the landing gear site last week and renoticed something i meant to ask about.Three of the four tower fondation supports appear to be undamaged except from weathering and the bolts and tower fixtures seem to be intact but the northeast corner abutment fixture...

about 10 years ago I paddled upstream from oswego lake about a mile and was stopped by low water liftovers.many of them.Now that the water appears to be up I am going to try again.has anyone ever made it up as far as papoose branch or further?Whats the furthest it"s possible to go up?On...

Hey all I forgot to mention while out at apple pie hill a couple weeks ago I found another set of brick colums like at the entrance to chatsworth woods.looks like a back entrance.Also my eagle eye wife spotted a two room foundation almost covered in moss on the right side of the road to the hill...