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I'm almost afraid to mention the "G"-word... Here’s an early account on Bear Swamp from a soils manual, peppered with a little geology to boot: “Occasionally the swamps are full of small islands. This is particularly true of Bear Swamp between Cedarville and Dividing Creek. These islands are...

Ouch!

plants one, geophysics zero Nice observations! I think you are on a good track. I’d love to see the clearings at sometime in exchange for a Belgian ale? The Pines are full of geological surprises just waiting for discovery; we do not beat a dead horse. I like your use of botany for geologic...

I heartily agree; scientific endeavors should become more accessible to the public since they ultimately provide research funding. Part of the problem relates to the competitive culture of the profession that manifests itself in secrecy. To this problem I apply the Peter’s Principle of Academic...

Recognition of landforms – the first step to their protection This week I attended a Pinelands Science-Policy Forum, brainchild of Drexel’s Walter Bien, Principal Investigator at the Warren Grove Gunnery Range. The venue was well received, and opened a long-awaited dialogue between disparate...

We're not beating a dead horse I’m sure there is plenty of grist for the mill! South Jersey has the only ice-marginal coastal plain in North America, and is replete with geologic surprises. Colleagues are astounded at the remarkable preservation of this place, especially those from across the...

geodiversity - valuing and conserving abiotic nature What’s the problem? I suggest that we cannot separate man from his natural environment. The two disciplines, geology and archeology, are inseparable historical sciences as in geoarcheology. Geographical relationships are complex, requiring...

Jerseyman, Many thanks for your extended response. Keep in mind that C.K. Landis’ father, Michael G. Landis, purchased for $15,000 “tracts of land in Burlington and Atlantic Counties which make up the Atsion Estate” from Samuel B. Coughlin of Philadelphia (Book P, Page 568, March 1, 1860). I...

Tom M To answer your question on Apple Pie Hill, I must pose another on the Jersey Central that might even stump Jerseyman! Is Charles K. Landis, Vineland’s founder, working behind the scenes to develop Fruitland and Wheatland? I know Landis liked the name Fruitland since he later tried to...

time-travel! Dragoncjo, Why not time-travel! The 1889 Cook/Vermeule atlas sheets have legend symbols that I suggest represent real world 19th century vegetation density. Where tree symbols are widely dispersed, plant spacing was correspondingly sparse. Around Millville, the Union House...

I jest, it was only helium...

Hmm, does it seem like we're catching the Commission’s attention?

When I was a young buck growing up in the Pines, we used surplus dirigibles from Navy Lakehurst to go spung-hopping – but now the Commission lists hydrogen as an indirect greenhouse gas…

I'll remember to wave when I blow by on the Parkway!

Agricultural Landscape Research Yes, calls for conservation are diverse. I come from an agrarian background, and loathe seeing our distinctive rural landscape (open space) paved over. A substantial portion (perhaps a third?) of the Reserve is currently in agricultural production. Ag production...

You needn't worry, land-use planners at the Pinelands Commission will protect us through Smart Growth. Nothing better defines our rich cultural legacy than gingerbread festooned upon a strip-mall – Pinelands Village "meaning of place." I can see Father Beck turn in his grave.

I believe Pine Plains to be precontact features. At the Millville Historical Society is a copy of Miller (1749: A Map of the Honorable Thomas Penn’s and Richard Penn’s Land on the Prince Morris River). On this document are landforms “cripples” (a semidry stream channel) and “plains.” This map...

not unique Lutz (1934: 17), in his classic monograph “Ecological Relations in the Pitch Pine Plains of Southern New Jersey,” suggested that Plains forest community was not confined East and West Plains. I agree. The Gordon map, despite numerous inaccuracies, has this one right. They are not...

Why not? As relayer pointed out, it is a tiny group of developers and their friends who benefit from current rules. Do you think corporate greed was limited to banks or Wall Street? I fear that Pinelands redevelopment schemes could be deemed shovel ready in the name of proposed economic...

Off subject? You’re spot on! We snuff candles while Rome burns.