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No thats not a pine snake den.a pins snake den is back filled when the snakes are in it.the only time theirs an opening is in spring after they come out and before the hole collapses.a den looks like a caved in fox den sort of only the sand is more spread out and not in a mound like a mammal...

swamp monster Guy, i forget where i read it but i did read somewhere the swamp monster was abandoned because their was a spring of really heavy rains that flooded great swamp so bad while the logging was going on that the loggers packed up and quit logging and had to abandon the monster...

no you do not have to call the nature conservancy to hike there.they have made designated hiking trails hoping the masses will stay on them.they do not encourage off trail travel but it is not illegal.their are signs posting some areas closed because of endangered or threatened species.I"ve been...

i was friends with bill smith a volunteer wildlife biologist at the preserve.sadly he dies last year of a heart attack in his 50"s.he used to run lines of snake traps out there aome of which are still there though the traps are disabled and starting to rot now the fence is still up.i...

that is an old chimney that had a house around it at one time.just north of this chimney is another chimney which was part of the fries mill tavern and this was still satnding to ten years ago.it had an old piano in it then too.the cabin was made of cedar which the logs are still there...

I"ve caught four rattlers,only one in the pines.the one in wv was quite docile,only tried to get away.2 in tennessee,one was docile one was psycho,it actually left the road by a couple inches when it struck,the jumping snake of cocke county:-).the one i caught in the barrens near batsto was the...

I saw a cougar on the mullica back in 78 when i was 14.i was canoeing in the open savannahs below the rr trestle when i spotted it in a red maple.it was spring and the trees were still pretty bare.when i got to within about 50 ft of the tree it leaped out and hit the water and splashed off into...

knife this knife looked similar to crocodile dundee"s

been there,lost that I hiked this very same road back in 87 till it disappeared and continued thru to the featherbed bogs and crossed those too till i hit the road on the other side and then followed that to carranza road.I lost a very expenisve and large knife in the middle of that swamp out...

calico bush i believe calico is the foundation holes on the right several hundred yards past the big puddle namely because it"s in the general location of the map you refer too and calico bush was another name for laurel which grows profusely on the left side of the road at this site and while...

i dont know.I"ve only seen the old bridge piling while canoeing.you cant see them from the cellar hole of the tavern and I don"t know wether their up or dwonstream.it"s at the very northwestern corner of the bodine field campsite clearing.large red cedars are obvious from the main road into...

their is a cellar hole where bodines tavern stood.it"s at the modern day bodines field campsite.the hole is at the upstream end of the camping area right along the river.the red cedar trees and some black cherry trees are the giveaway.some foundation stones are visible grown over and entrapped...

what you saw was the aurora borealis (northern lights)Their is hiogh sunspot activity going on at present and this is sending solar wind at the earth which when it hits the magnetosphere creates these lights.they rarely extend this far south being primarily a polar phenomenon.they are fairly...

three ft square is kinda small for a cellar hole even by yesteryear standards.methinks you may have found the outhouse.I"ll try and make it there to check this weekend Heather.it"s only 20 minutes away from me. Al

Behr, It"s possible that the birds seen on the sand roads were night hawks are chuck wills widows but the calls I hear all over at night are definitely whipoorwills.Theirs no confusing the calls of these birds.Your right they do look a lot alike but the calls are distinctive.I"ve never...

Behr, I"ve always found whippoorwills to be quite common especially between april when they arrive and july.after that their calling slacks off and in october they leave.I do a lot of night exploring in the barrens so maybe thats why I hear and see more.I see them in my headlights frequently...

Bob, this is definitely a pine snake egg nest.those are pine snake eggs and skins.luckily it looks to have been raided after at least most of the hatching was done. Al

I have an 11 ft dragonfly 2 by hydra for sal with neoprene spray skirt and helmet for 300.it"s a whitewater boat and isnt good for lakes because it has no keel so the wind slaps it around in the open but it handles nice on tight pine barren streams.I outgrew it.the maximum load is 200 lbs and i...

Boyd, I canoed out to the fish plant once.their were no tresspassin signs all over the island.we drug the canoe up into the weeds and checked it out for about 20 minutes and then got out because a lot of boats were coming round and your right next to the coast guard and I believe they patrol...

no i didnt camp there because we didnt know the area and didnt know the sites existed.i had an adirondack waterfalls book and a ny gazetteer and we just gotta feel for the area this time.we took the easy way the first time and hoteled it at a nice little hotel 3 mi east of lake placid. Al