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Does anyone in this august readership/contributor pool know of any organization that has compiled a history of the New Jersey cranberry industry? My curiosity stems from having worked on the bogs during one college summer vacation. I previously posted that it was in '59. I was wrong. It was...

Jeff- You wrote:"I doubt the grey squirrels have had a significant impact on the oak/pine dynamic in the barrens." And I would agree with you if we were to consider the "Pine Barrens" to be, collectively, a homogeneous biome, which, of course, couldn't be further from the truth of what the...

I'd suspect that the gradual interspersion of oaks into the once predominantly pine forest of the southeastern coastal plain has been the stimulus for incursion of the more successfully competitive grey squirrels and the consequent reduction of the red populations. In general, where solid...

I've noticed that several folks on this forum occassionally mention the "Nash Cabin" or "Nash's Cabin" as a landmark from which to describe where they hiked or explored that day. Who was Nash? Where's the cabin? I recall my Dad had a book on the history of Long Beach Island authored, I think...

>Say, do you sell these harps you make??< I've thought about it, but my output is pretty sparse. I work on them as the spirit moves and time permits. I play the first one I made; my son got the second. Two more are in progress and are promised as a donation to the music program of our local...

A white (albino?)squirrel and a black (melanistic) squirrel? If these turn you on, boat, canoe, or skate the Rideau canal systen between Kingston and Ottowa, Ontario. There is a region (near a resort hotel, the name of which I can't remeber, but where I stopped for a cooked dinner during a...

Thanks, so much, for sharing that.

Sorry to say that I don't recall the place-name "Bayville". Not that I don't think it was near Bayville, I just don't remember the name and am having trouble locating the place ("Pinehurst", not Bayville) in my memory. The structure was of distinctly uninspired architecture. There was a...

Sorry- my original point to make about the history of moonshine in the pines was that the local newspapers in the region (at least the Toms River paper) carried stories on the topic. Dave

My Dad (William C. Graham, b.'09, d.'72) worked as a "cub" reporter for the paper in Tom's River during his college summers during prohibition and told of several night-time trips into the pines with the local constabulary and feds on still-busting raids. One particular raid was on a still that...

Just to clarify a bit... In general terms: Albinism is he result of a mutation that causes a total inability of the body to produce melanin. Piebald, on the other hand, is the result of one of a variety of mutations that cause only local regions of the integument to be free of melanin -...

Oh yeah, I do like those ! I gotta ask, Guy; when you and Bob and Jeff catch and photograph 'em do you measure, weigh, sex, and mark 'em before release? Is there any such catch&mark program in NJ for herps? A lot of really useful info could be accumulated on populations of these beautiful...

Yeah, well ... Hell, I'll try riff sawn. Got some? (anything but flat-sawn. I know that won't work!) Look at the top of any decent acoustic guitar. If the grain density is in that range, it'll work for my purposes (in spite of the fact that most good guitars have a spruce top and I'm lookin'...

I can't begin to tell you how it makes me feel to know folks are now taking pictures of snakes they find in the Pines instead of catching them or killing them. It speaks well for our species and is cause for hope! That pretty pine snake damned near brought a tear to my eye... Dave

I'd sure appreciate the effort, Jeff. Even just 12-inch to 18-inch cut-offs of quarter sawn boards would be great! Many thanks, Dave I know there used to be a guy in tabernacle who had some. I'll look into it. Jeff

Bob, Was that white cedar from a submerged, buried log, or from standing timber?

Yeah; I hear ya. But I can't help wondering if anyone knows of any pieces of long-ago mined swamp cedar that are sitting in some old barn, shop, or garage... Ah well ... probably not. Just a thought. Dave

Name that goose! While I can't be certain that this particular goose is NOT a hybrid-domestic, or is NOT a wierd mutant of a white-fronted goose, I can state that during the 70s I was involved first-hand in cannon netting and then sexing, weighing, blood sampling, and neck and leg banding...

Does anyone have knowledge about the practice of "mining" the swamps in the Pines for old, waterlogged prehistoric cedar trees? Supposedly during colonial times the practice yielded trunks of such size that they were useable as ships' masts. Some have claimed that the recovered old cedars were...

Hey, Bob - or anyone else who reads this... I've got a question on Forum procedure. I'm new to the Forums and have a question about " mining cedar" - finding and dragging ancient, waterlogged cedar trunks hundreds to thousands of years old from the sediment of old cedar swamps. If I should...