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It says in that article that Fish & Wildlife estimates the state-wide bear population at 1,527. Based on the number of tagged bears killed in the hunt. As for being 'out of the action unless they know someone', I assume there are private-owned 'game preserves' where a person can pay to hunt. I...

OK I think I just remembered. When the 2018-2019 Digest was published, the October 2018 bear hunt, including state lands, was planned. Then in August 2018, Gov Murphy banned bear hunting on state lands. So the October 2018 hunt, like the 2019 hunt, exclude state lands. Correct? Here are some...

And this is the first (or second? not sure) year that bear hunting is not allowed on any state forest, park, recreation area, or wildlife management area. So the numbers are only from hunting on private property, and I suppose also county or local parks. (I'm not clear on the dates because the...

There's a rain gauge at the Bass River SF office, and they got 1/2" of rain between Fri and Mon morning. It made things a bit damp, not much else. Lake Absegami is down about 6" from normal. That's just a guess, because the depth gauge at the bridge is all gunked up at that level and I can't...

Thanks! That's interesting. As the article says, to improve habitat for monarch butterflies, we've tried to plant milkweed in several places in the state forest. Sometimes from seeds, sometimes from small plants someone grows for us and delivers in plastic tubes. As far as I know, not one of the...

Does anyone know what these bugs are? This is a milkweed pod, growing inside a fenced garden at Bass River SF. They caught my attention because of the bright orange color, and the fact that there were so many of them together.

Just joking, not a secret at all. We used to cut a piece of a broken post about 3-4" long, drill and screw it onto the bottom of the post to make a sort of upward-curving hook. Those are pretty effective - if set deep enough, and the dirt is tamped down around, you cannot pull it out - it has to...

They look like the Carsonite marker posts we use for trails, and on campsites. They are supposed to be able to take a hit from a tire at highway speeds, and pop back up. Perhaps. But I have replaced many of these that broke from being hit by slow-moving cars or trucks (or so I assume). Nor do...

Thanks for the link. Very interesting and reasonable. The form gives you 2 choices: give up your copyright and put your work into the public domain, or keep your copyright and grant then usage rights with any restrictions you want to impose. But I think anyone who posts pictures online, or...

I think it depends on whether one is a pro photographer, like the article's author, or not. A pro needs to care a lot more about what happens to their photos. What do you mean by a 'copyright agreement'? Did US FWS want you to transfer the copyright to them, or to license it? Those are the only...

Current version is here: https://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/cmp/CMP.pdf on the Pinelands Commission web site. "Effective date 1/14/1981, updated 11/19/2018".

It's amazing how many errors or just odd stuff gets into the property tax records, like typos "Uational" for "National". And how can both lots 31 and 31X claim the same lots 7, 8, and 34 as "additional lots"? Won't the acreage in those 3 be counted twice? Note that the 345 acre lot 31X has...

I don't have anything to contribute to this fascinating thread, except maybe to try to clarify about NJCF (New Jersey Conservation Foundation). As far as I understand it, NJCF is a private not-for-profit organization, which acquires land to preserve it. They do get public funding - NJ DEP Green...

I don't think they are marking nests, because the first 4 trees I saw with single red stripes were in a mostly straight line. You can see them here, although 3rd and 4th are hard to see. My understanding is that they are at or near the RFP stage. It was suggested to me that maybe they are...

Yes that is likely it. In case people weren't aware, the Penn SF CCC camp was for African American young men. Segregation was legal and common at that time. I'll be at the Bass River office this week and I'll ask around / look around.

Don't forget another option: Public Library! Yes these still exist. Atlantic County Public Library has 9 or more copies of "Forgotten Towns..." in various branches. If your nearby branch doesn't have one, they will happily get it from another branch for you. Or even from a different library...

Has anyone seen a good map of the planned clear-cutting areas around the Bass River fire tower? I thought I had one, which I made from the maps in the document linked to on the first post in this thread. But I was just out there, and there are new red stripe markings on some trees. I saw 4 trees...

I know there are CCC records and artifacts from the Bass River CCC camp at the Bass River forest office, but I don't know about Penn / Lake Oswego. I kind of doubt it.

Good find! Interesting read, but alas, no pictures or details re: Lake Oswego. Same exact sentence as quoted in the Penn SF History document, then some text about the CCC work in 1938-1939. It mentions a recreation center, but maybe that was just the lakeside picnic area. Was there really a...

Lots of people who have been around a while use the term 'ranger'. Someone in the forest actually referred to me once as a ranger, which was pretty funny. ("The ranger over there told us we can use this trail, or follow that road, to get back.") Does anyone here know what they were, and what...