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    Cumberland furnace

    fries mill road is still there.it"s now a private blacktop drive at port cumberland road and leads into what used to be camp hollybrook and now nature conservancy.once tyou get to the bridge over manumuskin creek it turns dirt.passes a house ruin and then is destroyed by a blue hole shown on the...
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    Catawba and Etna

    Their is a cellar hole in an old clearing that appears to be quite old across 49(south side of road though west of church) and on the north (same) side of tuckahoe river about half a mile from 49.big chigger road in a couple months.follow trail on north side of river on west side of 49 half mile...
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    Snakes alive!

    yeah your right Bob.Black racers top out at about 5.5 ft and can achieve about 7mph which doesn"t seem fast till you try and catch one on uneven,overgrown terrain.The Black rat snake can get to slightly over 7 ft though the largest I"ve caught was about 6.5.their not as agressive as the racer...
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    clear cut off of Eagle rd

    i have a 50 mile drive i do every now and then that does not run on any black top raods and does not repeat itself.It"s mostly in waharton but does cross some private property though no roads are blocked.This site was part ot the drive.I still used it last time I did it but their were signs now...
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    Pineland predators

    I saw a cougar on the mullica in 78 when i was 14 and canoeing.no one believes you unless your a biologist with a degree that says you did 4 years in college but i know what i saw.it was in a tree ten ft off the meadow and it jumped down and leaped across the meadow quite undeerlike let alone...
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    Snakes alive!

    i left two ball pythons briefly unattended while cage cleaning once.turned my back for two minutes on the usually lethargic couple and they immediately got into the vcr and i couldnt get them out.I left them for two days hoping they would vacate the premises.They didnt.I had to dismantle the...
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    need help identifying---name that animal!!

    PS, If this poop was laid in mid winter I would say more then likely a coon because skunks and possums are pretty much comatose during the colder parts of winter though neither truly hibernate on the other hand coons are out and about in all but the nastiest weather so if it"s fresh and it"s...
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    need help identifying---name that animal!!

    Like I said I"ve never actually watched a coon do the deed but I do know coon tracks and the picture you posted is a hind coon foot track.The poop I find usually in swamps near coon tracks and theirs a lotta seeds in it.I would say skunk coon or possum by the size and contents.I checked Olaus...
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    need help identifying---name that animal!!

    As a graduate of Tom Browns Standard Survival course I consider this an equivalent of a PHD in animal poop and tracks.I pronounce both poop and tracks as Procyon Lotor or Racoon.I always see this kind of poop in conjunction with coon tracks which this definitely is the hind foot of a racoon.I"ve...
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    Why I will be poor for the rest of my life.

    Ben, Remember only the first couple dozen deep scratches hurt.I found this out when I bought my vitara.After that you figure ,hey it's just paint.i can always repaint it.But you know you never will cuz what would be the point?You"d just do it again:-) Al
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    New name

    I"ve been called a stumpjumper a few times.I consider myself very accomplished at this art though i do misjudge occassionally.I"ve also been called other things that I can"t mention here especially when i return home after a bad miss and drop the resulting mess of clothing on top of the white...
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    One Book New Jersey "The Pine Barrens" by McPhee

    wid ya B man,I"ll be therie or be a fairy. Alfie
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    Will eagles or hawks attack housecats?

    Barry, An educated guess I"d say a cat would have more to fear from large hawks then small hawks or eagles.Bald eagles eat mostly fish,carrion and bully smaller birds out of their meals.hawks and golden eagles prefer their meat red and warm.small hawks such as kestrels andpergrines and such I...
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    Exploring this weekend?

    It"s agin my religun to war ornge or uther bryte cloze.camo er jeans fer me thats it. All in all i don"t hunt but not cuz I"m agin it just ruther spen my time explorin,.Larnt alotta bout critters from some respektuble huntirs who no thar sport and thar game but thars jest as many I"d ruther...
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    has anyone been up to chicken bone?

    Donde esta chicken bone? AL
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    An iron furnace in Millville!?

    yeah the deal was i swim from south to north while being followed by my cousin in my canoe and then he was supposed to swim back.when i got to the river mouth and stood up he said i ain"t swimmin back I"m tired and hungry and whats more he laid his lazy self down in the canoe and made me paddle...
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    Maurice River historical

    Renee, Thats a really nice map.Alas the one spot I really want to know about isn"t on it but theirs a few on there I never knew about and a couple that the map explains to me things I"ve found bushwackin that I didn"t know what they were. Al
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    An iron furnace in Millville!?

    Renee, I thought Lake Hopatcong in north jersey was the biggest.It"s glacial made.I"ll have to look it up. In my younger days I swam the length of union lake from first cove down where the dam meets the bluffs up to the river mouth which I thought was 3 miles but I just read it"s 4 though...
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    Why are furnace ruins covered with dirt?

    I was at Aetna and Cumberland furnaces today with Whipoorbill and a question came up.Why are they covered in dirt which someone went to great lengths to rmove at cumberland?I have found many ruins in the woods and most don"t seem to be nearl as covered over as these furnaces.They seem to be...
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    Name that pod

    looks like a honey locust to me.black locust pods are shorter.did you notice any spiny trees in the immediate area? Al
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