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Wondering how this sand road got that name????

Saturday, 15 Aug 2015, Ro and I were wandering the Pines and going down Carranza Road saw the new gravel on Tuckerton Road leading to High Crossing. Having never been down that way (value our SUV too much), we drove in. Saw that a LOT of road work had been done, especially at High Crossing...

Wilmer Stone mentions on page 66 of his 1910 report to the New Jersey State Museum that Mr. C. F. Saunders reports a trip through the Pines of 1899 in which they passed Munyon Field. I'd always thought Munyon Field was named for the airport now located there. Realized on reading Saunder's...

Here's another article regarding stones, monuments, property lines, etc - an old New Hampshire law and practice. Earlier, different article on here someplace .... < http://www.wsj.com/articles/some-devoted-new-englanders-went-for-a-stroll-in-1651-and-havent-stopped-since-1432308932> johnny b

Wall Street "Journal" article <http://www.wsj.com/articles/some-devoted-new-englanders-went-for-a-stroll-in-1651-and-havent-stopped-since-1432308932> should interest you guys and others. Do some of the incidents sound familiar? Incidentally, the "property straddling different municipalities"...

This is such a little gem I had to post a picture of it, Ro and I ran across it while checking out botanical survey sites on Franklin Parker. Read about it in Boyd's " A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey" page 79. I'd never seen it in this stage before; it's very easy to overlook...

If you want to preserve the Pines as we know it: PLEASE!!! go to the following website and sign and send the petition. http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Send-an-Email---Protect-the-Pinelands.html?soid=1101433450215&aid=KYFVQrnoyxk

Searched this site, how did Speedwell get it's (strange) name? Someones's surmame?

Ro's been asked by a volunteer involved in Dr. Still's site to put together a picture show of the Pine Barrens plants Dr. Still used. Does anyone know of a reference that would provide a list of such plants?

Ro & I were at Whitesbog late this afternoon, got Patty Rehn to come join us - we saw 100+ Tundra Swans on a lower reservoir and 40+ more at the northern shore of the big upper reservoir. Most I've ever seen there.

Ro and I toured Franklin Parker Preserve this afternoon to get botanical data and saw groups of Tundra Swans of 4 and 10 individuals on Eagle Reservoir, 4 more on a reservoir just to the north and 4 more on an old bog in the Jakes Spung area. At the bogs east of Presidential Lakes we saw a big...

When you guys locate a stone, evidently you take a GPS reading. Curiosity rules me: how close are the stones to recorded locations - i.e., how accurate were the old surveys? I guess this raises the questions of what reference point was originally used vs today's reference, did the stone move...

Facebook friend of my wife Ro tipped her to following article about a frog species in our area newly recognized as a new species. <http://www.sciencecodex.com/new_frog_discovered_inhabiting_i95_corridor_from_connecticut_to_north_carolina-144512>

Yesterday, while we were walking in Greenwood Forest WMA, so Ro could photograph a Buck Moth (saw lots, pictured none) we ran across a strange stone in the middle of a main sand trail. Pictured below, it was the only stone of this size anywhere around, was of a different material, bore no...

While in Greenwich, NJ, yesterday, we remarked on many very large trees. Below is a picture of largest on "Greate Streete". State record is bigger: 25'8" circumference 4.5' above ground, located in Warren Co. but this puppy is close......

Ro & I and friend visited old port of Greenwich. Oldest house is in on-line book “Colonial and Old Houses of Greenwich, New Jersey”, Bessie Avars Andrews, Vineland, New Jersey 1907, G. E. Smith, printer, Vineland, N.J." as follows: *** CHAPTER 111. There is a fine old brick house at...

Since we live on the fringe if not inside the Pine Barrens, thought this oughta be recorded. Ro photographed a bumblebee on Lantana in our backyard. Doug Yanega, U of Cal/Riverside entomology prof and bee expert and Ken Shields, another college entomology prof, confirmed identification. Pix...

Since we're now living quite close, we use/cross Burrs Mill Road often. Recently we walked a bit of the little Burrs Mill run paralleling Rte 70 and the questions arose: where was Burrs Mill? What is the history of Burrs Mill? When did Burrs Mill disappear? Is it named for a member of the...

Howdy Teegate: Ro and I were admiring the orchid pix you posted on 25 May 2013. She would like to know what camera and especially what lens you used for these pictures. My question: did you use a tripod for these pix or was the camera hand held? tnx PS Great pictures! Hadn't seen them...

Ro and I continued today our exploration of the Jersey shore of Delaware Bay - pix will follow. We "did" East Point and its lighthouse, drove the dike road from near there to the shore of the Maurice River at Heislersville WMA. Terns, Mute Swans at latter. We then visited the 3,700+ acre PSE&G...