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pine barrens is a successional vegetation type.if it doesn't burn after a century or so it will revert to an oak barrens and eventually a mesic oak hickory forest in the uplands and a maple gum swamp in the lowlands.if you want the barrens to remain barrens they must burn.wildfires are better...

this is so cool.I know that area very well and no the dam and have walked along most of it.i had no idea what it was and thought it was cranberry related. Al

i can vouch for Guy, he is quite focused.I have offered to show him some of the historical sites down here in the midst of our stone hunting but he doesn't have the time,he has a few hours to play (stone hunt) one day a week maybe and then right back to the grind.We're working on a couple maps...

Any stones in that area Guy?Looks like this will open things up a bit.Just kiddin folks.I don't advocate burning the barrens down to find stones though I will take advantage of the openness to do so when opportunity arises:-) Al

When we first crossed it was dead low tide and you can walk on some cedar logs thrown in the bottom without getting wet.on our return I was not expecting the tide to come in that fast and low and behold the water was at the very top of the hip waders.I did get a little water down my legs but not...

Karl, I am often asked when people see my torn up legs and arms why don't i take a machete when i bushwack.For one a briar thicket isn't a bamboo patch in vietnam.If i reached back to take a swing all i would get is more briars yanked down on my head.a machete will not wack through tough...

Woodjin, Your third picture down is the exact spot whipoorbill took the picture I use for my avatar.me in a ghillie suit.:-) Al

Bob, My wife and i went to the Adirondacks a few years ago and we also drove up whiteface but we took the lazy way to the top and went up the elevator.I also looked at mary from the hotel in lake placid and wanted so bad to climb it but the shape I"m in now it would definitely take me two days...

barn owls make a woman scream as their call but after reading the snapper reply i would say thats probably it.You'd be surprised how many animals death screams sound alike.I never knew salamanders could make sounds till one day i grabbed a red eft and it screamed at me.Toads scream,mice scream...

up like that because i was trying to take pics of him in my hand and he balled up when i picked hime up.Probably a defensive measure.the hand pics weren't wotking out well so I laid him back in the leaves and he retained the ball.I am not very handy with a camera but he was the most beautiful...

While out looking for stones in the vicinty of chatsworth yesterday I found something that wasn't quite stonelike though I did find a few stoes too this last one was the highlight of the day,here he is http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/album.php?albumid=3 Al

the old country.i have met russians in the barrens shrooming.the old man said the ones he had in the basket look like the ones he had in russia.he made no effort to use a book to identify them that i could tell.they were honey shrooms which are good,i just wonder how he knew that based on...

amanita are quite prolific.that looks like the veil remnants clinging to the stem.I would almost say definitely it's death cap but I'm no mushroom expert and to identify these thing you almost have to be.best to leave any white shroom around here alone.The only kinds i would collect to eat...

which route are you going?just curious.:-)

that appears to me to be an exploded death cap mushroom of the genus amanita.all amanita has a poison that will liquefy your liver.i can't be sure without taking a spore count but it looks like deaths cap to me.any white mushroom leave it alone.destroying angel also is an amanita.quite deadly...

Billy, You never made it out to the creek for a look at the island? any good sounds?the pics are great.looks like maybe a little enhanced but no freaky stuff.do you feel alright?:-)what are those black and white pics?they look like negatives.i like those and the enhanced colors.were your...

I have music on almost constantly while driving but when i pull off into the dirt it's music off and winders down(as far as practicable due to cold or ear killing brush)so i can listen to whats around me.Whipoorbill always needs another pair of ears and I have a very quiet truck and often find...

never caught a hellbender but caught a spotted once when i was about 6.it was nine inches long and black and yellow and shiny.scared my dad to death he didn't know what i reached in that hole for and he sure didn't know what i was pulling out.neither did I but life is full of missed chances and...

I go on vacation and come back to find out that bennie was watered his last tree???This has got me down.I will miss his bravery in the face of danger,his curiousness in the face of night noises and his down right good naturedness in letting me steal his master on occasion.he had to be 14 or so...

As of 11 years ago there was a woman preacher there.i forget her name.The reason i know is me and my wife were going to get married there but this preacher wanted us to attend marriage classes first.She didn't appear any older then we were and we weren't disposed to be lectured about marriage by...