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Ooh, a peloric Pogonia. I remember seeing a peloric Calopogon on a PBC trip to Forsythe about 15 years ago (you might have been there, in fact).

Twinkle, twinkle--there's my post. ;) A good indicator of other types of "barrens" habitat--you find it on former serpentine savannas that have succeeded to closed canopy, for instance.

Thanks for your kind words! I'm a little pressed right now, but I'd be happy to try to clean this up a bit for the front page in the future. There was a lot of careful nosing around in online sources for this one, but there's a lot more potential archival work. The Curtis family papers at Yale...

I think "open Satanist" is probably less a moral statement and more a signal of the kind of personality that can't be happy unless they've visibly upsetting people around them. Sort of like getting something lascivious tattooed on your face, but easier to reverse. But yes, what does the deputy...

We hear a lot about how terrible anonymity is on social media, but boy, people will post some absolutely deranged stuff under their real names on Facebook (and probably Nextdoor).

The answer is probably sheer lack of resources; the Forest Fire Service spends a lot of time, well, putting out fires. Obviously a well-thinned forest poses less overall fire risk, and they try, but they have a lot of territory to manage and a lot of wildland-urban interface to worry about. DEP...

I trolled through the State Police Facebook post comments so you don't have to. Supposedly her car was found hydrolocked in a hole on Lost Lane "the day she went missing". (4/13?) Someone pulled it out and posted it to the "NJ Stuck in the Mud" Facebook group. It looks like she may have been...

Nah, that was the last part. It's mostly little fragments carefully extracted by targeted searches in Google Books, the Library of Congress newspaper database (patchy but still useful!) and some other odds and ends. I find writing up pieces like this helps me integrate what I've been learning...

Part 3: A Pack of Princes The Almanach de Gotha, that famous handbook of European nobility, lists the five sons of Prince Mario Ruspoli: Costantino Carlo Michele Agustino (b. July 8, 1891) Marescotti Carlo Maurizio Gilberto (b. October 17, 1892) Alessandro Edmondo Eugenio (b. May 14, 1895)...

Part 2: Don't count your chickens, unless they're insured The tract salvaged from the Chatsworth Park Company was presumably what Trail of the Blue Comet refers to as Godfrey's "share of the Beers lands" (p. 197), transferred in 1908 to the newly-formed Chatsworth Estates Company (of New...

I think most of us are familiar with the story of the Ruspolis and the rise and fall of the Chatsworth Park Company and the Chatsworth Club, as recounted by Beck and McPhee. However, on carefully examining some of the scraps of evidence, there are parts of the story that are a little more...

This is New Jersey, that's not a bar to various forms of political involvement.

Happy International Beaver Day, everyone!

That's a blog? It looked like one of those news aggregators that remixes other articles and runs ads. I figured they picked up an old notice and ran it with the wrong date.

DEP Guy 1: I'll bet you $200 I can close a road and get the locals to cheer me on. DEP Guy 2: You're on. Anyway, what GermanG said: the real value here is not in the cedars. (In fact, they could eventually be a problem if deer browse doesn't keep them down.) It would be nice to see a...

They were generally called "marsh companies" in Delaware, and equivalents existed in Pennsylvania along the tidal Delaware as well. I am sure that similar companies existed for clearing the till-clogged waterways in parts of glaciated New Jersey and New York (cf. Beck, "The Shades of Death")...

Maybe it worked too well.

I found the GPS trace from that trip in 2010. Looks like we drove down the south branch of the road to the junction in Bob's aerial above, then parked in that sort of wide spot on the firebreak and crossed the tributary of the Sleeper to get into Wescoat Bogs. Somehow I don't remember it being...

I noticed that one. I remember driving partway to Wescoat Bogs on a field trip with Ted years ago; I don't remember at what point we started walking account of sugar sand, although we might have gotten all the way up Dave's Road to Atsion-Batsto. When I checked it out last winter, it was in much...

Jason, I don't quite follow your point here. You seem (I don't want to put words into your mouth) to be implying one or both of the following: Bill has lobbied for fossil fuel companies, developers, etc., so when he opposes the MAP, he's doing so on their behalf. But this is classic ad hominem...