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Environmental groups say rule change could increase development in Pinelands http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/environmental-groups-say-rule-change-could-increase-development-in-pinelands/article_4d077390-e9a3-11e1-8897-0019bb2963f4.html By DEREK HARPER Staff Writer In May...

Beautiful! It looks to be part of a parabolic dune. S-M

OK, which statement do you believe is correct? “...all areas certified by the Commission as Regional Growth Areas, Pinelands Towns, or Pinelands Villages must be included, in their entirety and without any exceptions, within the County's SSA/FWSA...“ (Paul Tyshchenko, Principal Planner...

"Our view is that Buena Vista’s four Villages are not appropriate places for sewered development." If you've been following this thread, it's clear that my belief is that the Pinelands Commission has been working hard to turn Pinelands Villages into Priority Growth zones. Pinelands...

FYI: According to the NJ League of Municipalities, this is coming to a Village near you (it may be necessary to cut and past the link into your browser to access this document): Implications Regarding the Pinelands/DEP MOU on Wastewater Management Regulations...

Deb, I'll be presenting 7:00 PM Wednesday, August 15 at the Vineland Historical Society about Pinelands ethnic settlements, and speak to the Kallikak issue. http://www.vinelandhistory.org/ Above is a slide from the talk, with a diagram excerpted from the 1934 German translation Die...

It looks like Maurice River Township wilderness could be the next Richland Village. Pinelands redevelopment initiatives may not be limited to Villages. A Planned Highway Business District is being proposed for turning wilderness into a center of place development along the Route 47 bypass in...

Guy, Outages are part of the Pinelands experience. This is still a rural place. Neighbors help each other. We don't expect too much from government, but got a lot anyway. Public works was out cutting with chain saws just as the storm passed around 2:00 AM. At 6:30 AM their loaders opened my...

Entered the 20th century last Thursday when the electric service was restored after 7 days out. Returned to the 21st just today when the phone & internet wires were repaired 11 days out. In retrospect I have no complaints. Atlantic Electric and Comcast did a splendid job under difficult...

Woo-hoo! Four Asplundh and two Davy bucket trucks on our road this morning. Hoping for electric restoration by Saturday. Prolonged power outages is a price we are willing to pay for solitude, although hauling water is getting a bit old. I wonder if the abandoned hand-pump well by the old...

Much of western Atlantic County was particularly hard hit. Wires still look like spilled spaghetti all along my road a week after the storm. I don't see how repair crews will get here for another day or two, since we are the last place at the end of a long circuitous run of service line. It is...

LOL! Oji, the Martians were just fine. My daughter co-presented to them at the Lowell Observatory. Mars blueberries are rich in iron (hematite, actually), so a little hard to chew. I tried to upload a lower resolution copy of the poster, which compares ice-age Pine Barrens with the frozen red...

Serendipity! I was at Lost Town Hunter's 50th anniversary celebration last Saturday, a wonderful event. He introduced one of his long-time associates, suggesting the two of us may have grown up in the same area. It turned out we were neighbors, even if temporally a generation apart. We moved...

Good find, Guy! Thanks.

I thought it might be fun on Memorial Day weekend to provide an account of someone who lived on my farm, Evard Snell. He came to the property as a young boy to live with his Aunt Rachel and Uncles Jenk & Thomas, original Welsh settlers to Richland. Things weren’t so good back home in Vineland...

New state agreement affirms Pinelands role in sewer plans, But critics fear it may lead to more growth. http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012305250053 "The Pinelands Commission will keep on calling the shots for future development in the nearly 1 million-acre region, with a new...

Feedback has been good. I certainly learned a lot of new material! The symposium was a delicate balance between the cultural and environmental elements of McPhee’s work. Five of six presenters were from South Jersey, and four of those Pinelands residents. Stockton's renewed interest in things...

"Urban Wilderness," maybe?

That’s a refreshing perspective, seen through the lens of an industrial historian! Jerseyman’s absolutely right. The Pine Barrens have been ruthlessly exploited for its natural resources since the end of the seventeenth century, through the 1930s. Its forests were razed again and again for...

Thanks Bob, Perhaps I should have used "flattened," as in how a spoon widens out. The channel seems to narrow towards the north. Does the narrow section, that towards Chamberlain Branch, cut through sandy ground?