Search results

There's an unexpected connection between Roger Conant and Witmer Stone I worked out when tracing the history of a plant specimen collected by Conant. He was mostly known as a herpetologist, of course, but he picked it up during a herping trip to the "Dutch Mountain" area of northern...

Not a lawyer, but I was on a jury once. ;) My impression from looking into this last year is that once a public road is established in New Jersey, either explicitly by ordnance or implicitly by the creation of a prescriptive easement, it has to be abolished by legislation. That is, the elected...

It's good that there's low potential for abuse. I'm just thinking about one of the issues raised on one of the MAP threads, that some of the "roads" in Wharton, etc., are firebreaks or things like this that weren't ever intended to be roads. I think it's perfectly reasonable for the Forest...

Thread crossover, but did they barricade/block the entrance of the newly cut road now that they're done with it?

If that was true, Tony would have been banned when he called Jon a liar for recounting a story of what happened on his (Jon's) own property. Anyone can look at Tony's post history and see that he doesn't have anything useful to say on these boards, and furthermore, he's already said it. I know...

Huh. Apparently young specimens of destroying angels do look like puffballs, but you see the shape of the stalk and cap when you slice them open. I had no idea. Apropos of the Pines, while knocking about with more mycologically-inclined friends this summer, they pointed out the fine appearance...

I joined a "LiDAR and Aerial Archaeology" group on Facebook and wound up having to mute it. You could post a grayscale picture of a Quarter Pounder meal there and some nimrods would claim in the comments that it was 1) WWII fortifications 2) an Indian mound 3) Civil War trenches 4) an abandoned...

I think in the Kobbe map, "The Alligator" is associated with the small circle at the five-way intersection (which would otherwise be unlabeled), rather than the ridge. It seems reasonably clear that there was an Alligator tavern at that point, judging from the previous thread, for whose name we...

Yeah, sounds right.

Red velvet mites are from the family Trombidiidae, while chiggers are in a different (but more or less closely related) family, Trombiculidae. The latter are only about half a mm long.

Heard an interesting talk on Saturday on how fire suppression is leading to the "mesophication" and disappearance of oak forest throughout the east. It will take some serious adjustment to get us back on track.

The term "truffle" gets used pretty loosely for any cup fungus with fruiting bodies underground; unlike mushrooms and shelf fungi, which drop spores from the gills or pores, truffles have to be dug up and eaten by animals, the spores being dispersed in feces. I don't know whether any of the...

All mushrooms are edible. Some are edible more than once.

He also owned copy 1151 of Witmer Stone's "Bird Studies at Old Cape May".

If I've traced the clues from his postings, the owner died last September. You might try his executor but I expect such effects have already been disposed of: https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/RegOrders/Middleton%2C%20Darrell%20N..pdf

I suspect Google is included in the lawsuit because they have deep pockets, and could be persuaded to settle for a modest sum rather than bring stats about their error-correction program into court. (They probably do correct quite a bit, although I am pretty sure I can find them showing some...

At least when the wildfire hits there will be a Wawa on Red Lion Circle.

Jeff, I should have said it before, but thank you for bringing your discovery here--you're going to wind up connected with the right people to investigate it and preserve it. My remark was based on an 1878 NJ Geological Survey report on the clay deposits of New Jersey. On p. 256, it states...

Somewhat apropos: are there any remains of the Townsend clay pits? The location given for them more or less corresponds to the isolated building marked "D. Townsend" on the 1872 map, but aside from one small flooded hole at the edge of a food plot, I don't see any extensive excavations on LIDAR...

Having lurked here for 20 years before registering, I generally like it here (I would say that, wouldn't I?). I agree the atmosphere is generally good, albeit the last "Where should we be allowed to drive" thread got a bit overripe. I'm glad that didn't cost us anyone permanently. (But I looked...