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    True Piney Environment

    Glenn, we were on the west side of 539, just north of Warren Grove, went in on a good sand road and turned north paralleling 539 on the west side of a big tree filled reservoir. Turtle can provide you with the name of the roads used.
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    Tundra Swans This Year

    As reported in another thread, on 15 Jan this year Ro & I saw 70+ Tundra Swans on the first bog east of Lebanon Lakes, at McDonald.
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    True Piney Environment

    This past Sunday Ro & I and our neighbor Lori, with Mark, Oji, Donna & Joe, Bernie K, were on a hike, arranged by Turtle, north of Warren Grove village. When we got back to our car Lori found a small (deer?) tick on her jacket. We were amazed, after the recent cold snap.
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    Cutting cedars at Double Trouble...

    What a surprise! Bill and his wife were co-students with my wife Ro and me at Master Bill Ting's Tai Chi studio in Rancocas Woods when Bill was working in the Atsion area.
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    Lebanon Lakes Area

    Hey Tom, don't cheat those of us beyond working age. There's SIX Saturdays and one Sunday.
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    Lebanon Lakes Area

    Bob - aw, blush..... P.S. How's retirement? Welcome aboard!
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    Great Horned Owl

    4:30 pm Thursday as I write this and a Great Horned Owl is hooting his head off in the woods to our west - non stop and quickly repeated "hoop hoop hoo hoo". Ro, Bernie Knaupp and I were at Barnegat Light. Walked to end of the jetty, tons of birds, including Harlequin Ducks less than 20 feet...
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    Lebanon Lakes Area

    Al, that's where we parked and started/ended our walk. Back home and marked 7 1/2 quadangle - shocked to discover I'd done part of it and part to the west 35+ years ago. Memory a blank on that one.... We live between McDonald and your place - please give us a buzz next time you go there.
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    Lebanon Lakes Area

    Ro & I drove out today to the cranberry bogs east of Lebanon Lakes - old map says "McDonald". We hiked the perimeter of the bogs, saw the structure below on the dike at the head/east end. Water control? Why sitting up on the dike? Also counted over 70 Tundra Swans on the bogs. Wonderful...
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    Shifting sands

    When Ro & i were down at Estell Manor Park (I think I got spelling correct) the other day we parked at the boat launch lot. I remarked to Ro that we'd had a really deep freeze and a subsequent thaw, as I was leaving 1/2 inch deep footprints on what should have been a very hard surface...
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    Another Deer Tick Disease

    Ro had been complaining about occasional bouts of hives and strange pains for couple of years. This past summer she read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Johns Hopkins researchers trying to find the cause of some patients undergoing cancer therapy having symptoms not shared with...
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    Estell Manor Park & Tuckahoe WMA

    Here's pix from that trip: From Rte 563 bridge over the Mullica Estell Manor Park artesian well and ruins South, I said South River, at Estell Manor boat launch Smith Ireland cemetery at Estell Manor Sign on NJ 50 at Estell Manor Park Ruins to the rear of the above sign
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    Estell Manor Park & Tuckahoe WMA

    As the perpetrator responsible for this recent direction of this thread, I can't resist quoting an old co-worker in RCA Radar Systems - Dr. Sid Shucker - "no nit is too small to pick." He's also responsible for "Shucker's Rule", but that belongs on/deserves a new thread.
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    Plan to put gas pipeline in Pinelands spurs ire

    Just heard that it was a tied vote 7 to 7! But ties don't win. Also understand newly appointed member who was forced to recuse himself would have voted against application; he'd been on the Commission before. But a win is a win. Be interested to learn who voted how.......
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    Estell Manor Park & Tuckahoe WMA

    Geez, I wuz only 180 degrees wrong.... South River it is.
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    Plan to put gas pipeline in Pinelands spurs ire

    This morning we got a bulletin from the Pinelands Preservation Alliance that the Pinelands Commission has voted to deny the application for the pipeline. There is justice remaining in this world. Congratulations and thanks to the commissioners who voted to uphold their oath to obey the rules of...
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    Estell Manor Park & Tuckahoe WMA

    Today Ro & I visited these two places new to us. We first stopped at the Park north end trail, took pix of the artesian well, the ruins, the Smith/Ireland cemetery, and the frozen North River which was making cracking noises with the change in the tide. We then went to the main park entry...
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    Tavern in Pleasant Mills, NJ

    Further to my earlier posting: The Burlington County Clerk’s office said that Burlington County tax records are not kept in their files, that the County Board of Taxation might have such records. The Burlington County Tax Board has county tax records from 2011 to the present on computer file...
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    john mcphees, the pine barrens

    Ben: We were just down there. To me, picture looks like it was taken with the photographer standing just east of the bridge on Carranza Rd with his back to the west. Road to the left out to Speedwell, and the one to the right down to Godfrey Bridge. That packing house is now just a big hole...
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    Bread and Milk

    14:30 and the sun's out. Talk about weird weather......
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