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Friends of the Parks, Inc. and Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association will be hosting a lecture by Mark Demitroff at the Nature Center in Estell Manor Park. See the details below. Please come out if you can! Please join us for our next Friends of the Parks Speakers Program: Thursday...

@Rooftree Thanks for the info! That's a good tree.

Are there forests in the Pine Barrens (or elsewhere in South Jersey) that are primarily Shortleaf Pine? I'm sure I see them all the time mixed in with the Pitch Pines, but I have a hard time telling the difference.

I have the 1970 hardcover reprint. Can confirm the maps are also black and white.

Interesting stuff. I bet the trees at the bluffs were planted around the same time. They look to be about the same size and same configuration.

Thanks for the tip! Drove over there, and it looks pretty much exactly like the other grove of trees. Do you know why these were planted? Was this a cranberry bog?

Some better photos attached. 3 needles per fascicle. I'm thinking Loblolly or a hybrid (Pitlolly?). I was reading somewhere that the hybrids are used for ornamental trees.

I’m in that area all the time. I think it gets a bad rap, especially Millville, but it’s a really nice place. Also can recommend WheatonArts. The glass museum is great, and it’s one of the few places in South Jersey that has contemporary art exhibitions.

Does anyone know what type of pine tree is in the parking lot of the Maurice River Bluffs Preserve? It's a really nice grove which looks like it was planted. They don't look like pitch pines to me, the trunks are too straight. Could it be Loblolly? Something else? Pretty OK photo attached.

Thanks for the tip. It was really cool, I’d never been up there before.

Amazing work. By far my favorite website!

The area behind it used to be a farm field, I believe. Irrigation/pump house seems plausible. Or maybe it's something related to the old Estell house?

Shit-O-Meter is close. Apparently, it's the air chamber of the "Hydraulic Ram". I showed my wife the photo and she knew exactly what it was and directed me to this video: YouTube

Does anyone know what this is? It's buried in the ground behind the Gristmill at Batsto.

Friends of the Parks, Inc. is pleased to host our Annual Plein Air/Photographic Exhibition event in the Atlantic County Park System! Plein Air & Photographic Exhibition Event in Atlantic County Parks Saturday, October 8, 2022 (rain date Sunday, October 9th) Exhibition to Follow at Atlantic...

Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear it was mostly good. I'll see if anything can be done to improve the sound quality for the next one. They're planning on having more of these hybrid-type lectures in the future. Definitely a super interesting talk by Mark, as always!

Did anyone attend via Zoom? If so, can you let me know how the quality was?

Check out these aerials: https://www.atlantic-county.org/gis/AGO/aerialview.html The 1957 map has a pretty good view of the plant.

Friends of the Parks, Inc. will be hosting a lecture by Mark Demitroff at the Nature Center in Estell Manor Park. See the details below. Please come out if you can! Our next Friends of the Parks Speaker's Program: Thursday August 25, 2022 at 6:30PM Speaker Mark Demitroff will present Old...

Super cool. Here's the thread where I first heard about this: https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/mizpah-sand-quarry.5117/