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I was helping a friend delineate reputed old Catholic church in Estell Manor that no one could remember, so noticed the absence of access for a couple days. Switching between maps, I was able to deduce the site probably dated back to the original railroad-era settlement. A number of similarly...

Oops, I missed your answer 46er. Good guess. They are a branch of Sami (Saami, Lapps) called Nenets. Like their Scandinavian relatives to the west, they are Reindeer herders. Nenets live in a remote area just east of the Polar Urals on the flat frozen ground of Yamal Peninsula...

Clear sky in western Atlantic County around midnight. I watched for 15–20 minutes minutes, but never paid attention to the exact time. There was only one dignified meteor - with a wavy tail - that came out of the constellation Pegasus. It may have been bright enough to be classified a fireball...

For resolute Pinelands’s enthusiasts: Physical and Cultural Geography of the Pinelands National Reserve I’ll be back at University of Pennsylvania’s Morris Arboretum teaching a one-day geography course this Fall. It is hosted under the School of Arboriculture, so there will be lots of...

Guy, The purported tavern is out towards the Myrtle intersection. I'd have to drive by to jog the memory. There was another inn about a quarter mile east of the Atlantic/Gloucester/Camden County intersection. The survey stake for the tri-county boundary was set in a spung called Moss Pond...

It's an interesting area. Columbia (Airport) Road was laid out along an ancient trail, so named for the New Columbia Tavern in Nesco. There is a pond near the airport that sums up what the area must have once been like - Desolation Pond. I believe one of these two is the spung...

Carry on camping - can a week under canvas reset our body clocks? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23530408 Researchers say that camping for a week can reset the biological clock that governs our sleeping patterns. The scientists argue that modern life disrupts our sleep through...

Another factor could be the cartographer's license. That part of the state is dotted with a huge number of pond-like kettles (ponds resulting from ice-calving during glacial retreat). Like Pinelands spungs, mapmakers for convenience don't always add small ponds as important landscape features...

JRich, the photos are worth the wait! How come my camera never takes pictures like that? Boyd, try a little 5-10-10 fertilizer around the telephone poles. That ought 'a speed things up! S-M

OK, OK, the same lame excuse as when you missed this one. Ancient Climate Change and Periglacial Landscapes, Pinelands National Reserve, USA (美国松林自然保护区的古气候变迁和冰缘景观)” State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.

Just a reminder about the Atlantic County Park talk. It's free but they like people to register in advance (but it's fine just to show up anyway). http://www.aclink.org/PARKS/mainpages/Parks_eventdetail.asp?EventID=15608

Ben, I truly admire your diligence and dedication to NJPB and its goal to help Pinelands enthusiasts. The suite of new map options takes the cake! Hardly a day goes by without me using NJPB maps, images that are indispensable tools for anyone doing serious study of the local cultural or...

M-B, Are there any ironstone or silcrete boulders left on the slopes or summit? I suspect that many stones were hauled away for building material a long time ago. If any remain their upper surface should be highly eroded by blowing sand during cold climate (Pleistocene) wind events...

I’m with Boyd, the back yard- particularly the vegetable garden! But you have to be willing to put up with things like long power outages, bad phone lines, buck (deer) flies, ticks, chiggers, destructive pine voles, pollen beyond belief, and the threat of fire. Otherwise, I’m a little hesitant...

According to a new report (2013) the total cumulative South Jersey groundwater depletion for 1900–2000 is believed to be 1.3 cubic kilometers. Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900–2008) http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5079/ This amount is according to USGS estimates based on...

Gerania, LOL! There was no cake after all. We had to move the venue at the last minute to the Landisville Fire House. Night court was rescheduled from the week before after the judge failed to show up on the customary date. No one told the historical society about the SNAFU. Even so, all went...

Sorry Ben, You can still manage to have sand in your shoes. The Thoreau House (NY) is only 5 miles from the Clintonville Pine Barrens. http://www.nature.org/ourinitiative...ork/adirondacks-clintonville-pine-barrens.xml For the record the real Thoreau's Woods is yet another, albeit...

Folks, I’m giving a talk for Atlantic County Parks, which will be repeated at the Vineland Historical & Antiquarian Society a couple weeks later. Our Forest Heritage: Pine-Belt Employments This session provides a natural science-based overview of man's use of Pinelands forest resources. For...

Hi Gabe, I was thinking of you too when this was posted! Too late for you to pass through en route home from Mt. Lafayette, bummer. I'm doing some geomorphology work with Dartmouth College and hope to visit the area soon. Many of these "minnie-me" Pine Barrens only came across my radar last...

Ben, How 'bout other Pine Barrens? Most of these are windblown sand piles left over from when the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated northward at the end of the Wisconsinan. The Albany Pine Bush is a prime candidate for a National Natural Landmark designation since it appears to be the best...