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they were a 16 and an 18 year old.both mexicans.the 16 year old drowned when he fell out of the canoe.this is what I heard on the radio.they weren"t wearing life jackets.I assume the boy couldn"t swim.this is all I know. Al

should we wait for winter so as to have a better view?Like I said the canopy is pretty open but down on our level it"s a bushwackers challenge. Al

I have this book.It"s great!It"s about an old fashioned snake catcher and his exploits back in the 50"s.Admittedly the conservation ethics werent the same back then but it"s full of local barrens snake info in places like crossley,Mount Misery,Forked River...

I"ve done cedar creek from bamber to double trouble and live next to the maurice and have done it many times from malaga to the bay.both creeks are mostly swamp with few high banks to pull out on.If you want an easy river with plenty of high banks I"d do the wading below hawkins bridge but it"s...

http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/ sorry about so many posts.I"m giving them as i find em

i forgot to mention.I contacted one of the guys under the tree several years ago and he claimed he forgot the exact location,just that it"s in nixon swamp.I don"t believe him but then again would I trust him if the roles were reversed?Probably not.Hey BEHR and Kendawg ready for another mad...

I know this area fairly well.Have crossed this swamp in a couple places but never went the length of it.It's fairly open at canopy level but dense underneath.lotta old corduroy roads crossing it and it"s obviously been logged in the pas.Don"t know why they missed this big mamma.The creek is...

http://www.eman-rese.ca/partners/adoptapond/urbanoutback/part39.html found this?

I went to crossley for the first time last week and really was impressed with the man made snake hibernaculums.I had toyed in my mind with building some of my own but didn"t know if snakes would take to a man made shelter.Wasn"t sure if we could build to suit their requirements.It appears we can...

yes pine snakes eat mice,moles ,rats,baby rabbits,baby birds and eggs and any other war blooded critter they can catch.I once had a baby pine snake try to eat it"s sibling.had him half way down before I rescued him but this was right after coming out of winter hibernation and they were in a...

as far as their not being banded water snakes around here,well common names are like opinions,everyone has a few of them.the northern water snake,northern banded water snake or nerodia sipedon as the latin name would have it and the only name that can"t be argued does live here.Their is another...

here is what I posted.I was at the clay graves today after not visiting them for about six months and someone has put new plastic flowers on them and left a plastic jar with a typed note in it that claims he is celebrating the birth or death of Louisa May on july 13th out to the graves with...

I remember reading a largest tree list that Bob Eisele had in his house.Me an his boy are good friends.The largest reporte pitch pine in NJ is located on the north side of route 72 east of manahawkin before you reach the marsh.I forget the exact location but it"s supposedly within sight of the...

4 inches across would normally be too big for a coyote.thats more wolf and dog size.we have no wolves here to my knowledge so I"d say it"s a big dog except our coyotes are larger then average here.I"ve seen coyotes up close I know were a good 70 lbs.I wasn"t in a good track area but I bet he...

Jimbo is this map online?Could you post the url for me?I found my only jersey rattler on batsto washington road about three quarters of a mile south of Washington taking a sun bath.he was a hyper little s---.did his best to envenomate my snake lovin butt.I caught him and checked him out and...

Sure Renee,I have off fridays thru sundays.the other four days I work about 14 hours a day.Haven"t had a lot of herpin time this year but I"d like to make some. Al

permanone or duranon,two brand names that have the chemical peremethrin in them will keep chiggers off you.spray on your woods clothes and lasts two weeks thru repeated washings.the stuff works.I"ve walked thru chigger grass and then put my white pant legs up to watch them die and fall off in...

snake man, I unabashedly declare myself a snake expert.While herping the barrens for herp atlas or on my own I"ve caught more kinds of snakes the others.I"ve lost the list that herp atlas puts out every year for their reports on numbers reported by participants but as far as my own...

not rare at all irishman just that they like to burrow and live under things.not a plentiful barrens snake I believe.they like richer soil.I find them down here in cumberland county moreso after a rain while flipping boards and such. Al

their all right snake man.I"ve argued more then once to the point where I caught a snake someone insisted was a cottonmouth.I let it bite me in fron of them which water snakes will readily do:-)when I didnt promptly keel over and die they admitted to being mistaken about that particular snake...