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    Leucistic white-tailed deer

    I have heard of the term Leucistic in reference to snakes but never mammals.In snakes it is an all white snake with black or normally pigmented eyes unlike albinos who have clear (blood red) eyes and their normal pattern is visible but washed out and pale a leucistic snake is pure...
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    Whitesbog website

    Well I stand corrected! I had read quite some time ago that we had never been able to improve the cranberry.Either this was in error or beings it was quite some time ago the improvements are more recent.Can they make the berries bigger as they have with blueberries or just more berries per vine...
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    Whitesbog website

    I notice the top of the page says "Birthplace of the Highbush Blueberry" I do believe highbush blueberry was a wild native plant long before Whitesbog existed.Do the3y mean the cultivated version of this plant?I know cultivated blueberries are bigger but otherwise it is the same plant whereas we...
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    Fear of Dying

    I am not afraid of dieing.... as long as it doesn't hurt.I am a serious pain sissy.I like Henry's attitude "I would hate to find out upon dieing that I had not lived." The best book I ever read on death was "A Grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis. It was about the death of his wife.For obvious reasons...
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    Tick warning

    They could make Lyme's vaccine out of my blood according to my wife.My mom once picked over 80 ticks off my hide in one day when i was 9.I am amazed at all the people I know who have it,none of them spend a great deal of time in the woods.I think I never got sick much as a kid or even now...
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    Drought coming?

    thats not exactly creeping,is it?Not for a plant anyway.
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    Bats still dying in N.J.

    I see that it is bat to bat which I figured anyway.We can't stop that now can we? I have no problem with staying out of any certain cave part of the year such as summer if it is a maternity cave or winter if a hibernaculum but the wholesale year round closure of caves on public property is BS.I...
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    Bats still dying in N.J.

    I'll still cave
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    Quaker Bridge Road

    I happen to think the area that was burned to the ground west of the mullica and east of 206 in 1982 is one of the purtiest parts of the barrens today.I have no gripe with wildfire but government obviously does have issues with anything or one they can't control. Wildfires out west in the...
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    Quaker Bridge Road

    Is the states theory that the cedar needs to be harvested before it becomes over mature and then they replant as any commerical timber operation should do?I thought they cut it down just to see how it came back on it's own? I just don't understand how the state forest can sell lumber and we...
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    Black's Stone Updated

    Rough Green snake! That may be construed as snake harassment by some:-)
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    Music for the day

    Skynyrd! Dogg has good taste in music!
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    Bats still dying in N.J.

    I think WNS is like pine beetles.Going to have to run it's course.Meanwhile we have the wholesale closure of all federally owned caves in WV to stop a disease no one is sure how it spreads. I'm glad people don't spread pine beetles or we would be banned from the barrens too.I guess it's just...
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    Quaker Bridge Road

    I had forgot about that thread:-) I was thinking last night at work.Now I admit I have never read up on the southern pine beetle but even in my uneducated state I think I may have realized where the problem stems from and what it's cure might be.The magic word be "wildfire". Now these beetles...
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    Prohibiting outdoor, wood-burning furnaces?

    England started doing crap like this to us back in the early 1760's.
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    Quaker Bridge Road

    actually it is :-) opens up the canopy allowing grasses and forbs to grow which feed small mammals which feed snakes and the brush gives em cover but it's still an eyesore:-(
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    Quaker Bridge Road

    Thanks Dogg, Didn't see that post.I figured it might be beetles.I personally find a patch of dead trees for visually pleasing then a field of man made stumps and brush.I personally don't see much hope in stemming stuff like this.It's like smallpox,it has to run it's...
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    Quaker Bridge Road

    I just drove Quaker Bridge road today,first time since probably last summer.A mile past the tracks they have cut down trees and left the slash on both sides of the road.It is about a half an acre parcel they wiped out.What used to be a very pretty drive now has a man made scar that the road has...
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    BEAR WATCH

    I saw mine on the Millville side of Laurel Lake across the river from Heislerville and upstream about six miles.
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    Black's Stone Updated

    Stomach is healing up nice.should be ready for the woods in a couple weeks.I notice the huckleberry is making it's springly debut.Looks like stone season is about to be shut down.
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