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I didn't look up the latin name but it's one of my favorite water p[lants along with golden club (neverwet) Al ps don't eat arum tubers unless totally sliced and dried out.oxalic acid is a real nasty in your mouth.

Glo the masses of purple flowers are Pickerelweed and the large translucent green leaves belong to arrow arum. ALfie

you are speaking of the tidewater section.if you head upstream freshwater starts at head of the river at the first crossing of route 49 going upstream.shortly you enter some old cranberry bogs that are a beautiful paddle up to the second crossing of 49 at hunters mill/first avenue.this is the...

Guy I have a hold of my pack straps in front of me and I'm pulling them together and down trying to jack my pack bottom up and out of the water,makes me look hunched up and cold as you say.the water was actrually cold upon entering and then warm,ed to pleasantly cool once used to it. Al

I know this isn't Darwinistically coreect but I believe it was this guy. Genesis 3:21 *¶Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

nice snake.about how long was it? Al

Thanks Chris, Brain tanning is a lot of work but i think it's much nicer then the chemical tan that I've seen a taxidermist friend of mine get back.The chem tan is nice but for clothing the brain tan can't be beat.I have tanned half a dozen skins and ruined one while smoking.it caught fire...

road kills are good if critters haven't tore them up first but if it's warm they stink quite bad in no time.I'm not man enough to skin out a bloated deer,not many are:-) Al

thanks for the offer of the taxidermists but after they cut the cape out for the mount the hide isn't worth the bother to tan.they take a third of it just for the head and neck.thanks anyway, Al

I am thinking about getting back into an old hobby,namely brain tanning deer hides to make buckskin with. I initially want to acquire about eight hides.I'm willing to pay for good hides.What I mean by good hides is decent size deer of either sex(no fawns please) and hides that have been pulled...

when i was a youngun here in laurel lake we'd go swimmin and come out quite hairy.the lake is fed by buckshutem crik,a prime cedar swamp crik if ever there was one. funny i wanted to be hairy as a kid and now i have hair growing in spots that it shouldn't and i wish it would go away:-)

saw in the paper yesterday where a family who has lived in warren grove for twelve years was complaining that this is the fifth fire they've had since they've been there.Again another family who wants to live in the woods but has no clue as to what those woods are all about.BUY FIRE INSURANCE! I...

Scarlet Tanagers are not rare and neither are summer tanagers but both live in the treetops and are only here in spring and summer so they are rarely spotted as they very seldon come down out of the canopy.The scarlet sound much like a robin with a sore throat so I will home in on their call and...

Has Buddy been fixed? If He has thats why he doesn't understand why your laying in the water.If he hasn't been fixed he should know:-)

Thanks Bob! I never knew that stream was called Sweetwater Branch.It looks as if I will be taking a walk down Webbs Mills Branch someday starting there.It amazes me how some streams are black as tar like the Tulpe and others are red (black water over white sand) like Forked River and others are...

Now thats a man that knows the Pines! part of that route I use to take the grankids from down here near the bay to the popcorn park zoo once a year.we make a day of it with a nice long drive through the pines which to me is the best part though the critters are cool too.I really like that feeder...

for the life of me I cannot find it??? i go with deer stand in middle and the field doubles as an ATV course.

I couldn't have put that better myself:-)

We'll see if I ever give my best buddy a lift in my canoe again.I'll leave him to the alleygators

my woods music is either william ackerman,carlos nakai,bill miller or some instrumantal celtic stuff like joanie madden or clannad