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Thanks Boyd, I've been inspired! The topic is timely, and nicely dovetails with a current arboricultural project I'm involved with. The wife's on her way to REI's Marlton store as I write. What is the spatial accuracy of the new units anyway, within a few meters? S-M

Thanks Woodjin, Atlantic County has excellent Pinelands habitat to explore. You were on the “new” New Columbia Road. Nesco began as a Scottish settlement in 1707, home ground to those of the Campbell clan of Atlantic and Cumberland Counties. Although Boucher in Absegami Yesteryear stated that...

Argh me maties, My wife, of old Jersey Dutch stock (1656), is purportedly a descendent of Captain Kidd, through the marriage of Jonathan S. Roll and Lucinda Kidd, September 4, 1851. Baltus Roll, namesake of the private PGA golf course in Westfield is also a relative. Baltus was a beloved albeit...

Hi all, Its been a busy summer, so I haven’t been able to respond to comments. It is possible that these tessellations have little to do with a development, but have been part of some scientific endeavor. One candidate is a silvicultural experiment, although it’s only a guess. Various forest...

D-W, You mention the Pinelands Village of Dorothy. I’m afraid that Dorothy’s core is deemed as “Smart Growth” worthy, along with the core zone of adjoining Estell Manor. The combined parcels dwarf Richland Village’s bounds. Private and public planners can quietly circumvent Comprehensive...

Joe, As I understand, the Pinelands Commission allows, or even encourages, "fill-in" development between built areas. It is up to each of us to let our municipality know that we want more protection and preservation than economic "enhancement" of Pinelands resources, and demand that all...

Lovely, perhaps Stafford would consider adopting a “twin towns – sister city” designation with Buena Vista Township.

Bob, Thanks for pointing that out. That's why the "maybe." It's best to collect place names from old documents, but that isn't always possible. In retrospect some of the modern names are every bit as tantalizing, like the Barkley Ponds named by the botanist Hirst brothers for nearby hound yelps...

Guy, So, yes, it is a natural feature – a riverine spung not unlike Watering Place Pond. Its moniker may have nothing to do with automobiles. According to the Oxford English Dictionary "chevy" is a hunting cry or hunting pursuit. Many spungs have terms related to the pursuit of game game like...

Thanks Guy, I'm always entertained by your adventures! Often times disturbed areas like that make better habitat for the rare plants and critters than they would have been in the natural state. By the way, is Chevy Pond natural? S-M

Turtle, That is delightful news! Agricultural pursuits are certainly in accord with the Comprehensive Management Plan’s (CMP) spirit, and a blueberry enterprise will surely add sustainable, long-term cultural value to Nesco. Thank heavens it was not another strip mall. As stakeholders we must...

Thanks Ben, Many apologies for silent patches. I am working hard to fulfill obligations towards a PhD in Land-Surface Processes. I would much rather be reading and posting at this blog than assessing ambiguities of root mean square errors! See the 2011 PPA State of the Pinelands report for a...

Gabe, The Department of State and Pinelands Commission has designated numerous Pinelands Villages as Smart Growth zones. The areas shown in yellow in my earlier post are examples of such zones. Smart Growth allows public-private partnerships to circumnavigate Pinelands rules through...

Guy, This may just be the beginning. Nesco is designated as a Pinelands Growth Zone, and, like Richland Village, a candidate for a package sewer plant and redevelopment. Excerpt from NJDEP 4/2009 Sewer Service Area (click to enlarge). Spung-Man

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Thanks, Guy! Ms. Wittenberg’s speech was carefully crafted. Although it indicates the Pinelands Commission will provide economic development outreach to municipalities, that development must still meet Pinelands standards that protect and enhance this special place. That’s my read, anyway...

Good show, Jerseyman! I had never seen this publication referenced before. Was this magazine a single issue phenomenon? Any information about subsequent issues of In New Jersey as well? Cliff kindly provided my copy during one of our long talks. Within July 1964 is a short article about...

Does anyone remember the first New Jersey magazine? It was the brain child of one the great eccentric plantsmen, the late Cliff Tine, owner of the New Jersey Botanical Gardens. His greenhouses were adjacent to the Duke estate in Somerville, NJ, where at peak season people by the hundreds came to...

Thanks Ben, Colliers Mill Wildlife Management Area has special meaning to me too. This is one of the cool Pinelands places I used to woo my wife, eventually proposing to her at its Success Lake. Heaven knows I needed all the help I could get. Much of the NJ Outer Coastal Plain is in my opinion...

Hinch, Gabe, It’s refreshing to find interest with the subject. Much of the Pinelands scientific literature is hopelessly mired in obscure journals not readily available to the general public. Worse yet academics have not done a very good job of disseminating work outside their discipline. I...