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Tallest tree in North America? At 115 feet? Hmmmm.

'Tis a fine line between lost and exploring .

What's GPS? ;)

I'd answer your concerns the same way I do those fearing hunters being active in the same woods. Statistically, you have far, far, FAR greater chances of being in harms way while driving our roads to your destination. It just seems we become dulled to the thoughts of the more common dangers...

I've always been of the opinion that few of these specimens are the actual biggest. Just the biggest that someone found, measured and reported. ;) I remember when two of my former professors, John Kuser and Dick West, dominated the list of reporters of the specimens, and they were concentrated...

JJ has always been one of my favorite movies. Seeing it as a teen is the reason every deer since then has been taken with a Hawken replica. I'm also looking forward to this new film.

Someone (I can't recall who) told me years ago that he was buried there. I couldn't locate him on the Find A Grave list of interments for that cemetery and didn't give it much more thought until recently. While visiting the site today with a few friends I used my favored "boots on the ground"...

I viewed most of those graves today while visiting the Batsto-Pleasant Mills Cemetery, not to mention quite a few "Westcott" graves. I wonder if they are a totally different family or another example of creative South Jersey name spelling ;). I also found what I was looking for, the grave of...

I've been involved way too often in searches for lost hikers in the last 25 years and the reasons given by the hikers for having become lost never fail to amaze me. It's normally a case of either setting off too late in the day for the trail length, which wasn't checked in the first place, or a...

I can see why one might suspect that, but it is important to remember that ironstone is a sedimentary rock, formed by sediments being put down in layers. These layers often have bands that contrast in color and and density, causing different rates of erosion over time. A denser band of sediment...

I think I'd stop short of referring to South Jersey sandstone as brownstone. While it is a brown stone it isn't brownstone. Sort of the way blueberries are blue berries but not all blue berries are blueberries (don't read that after drinking a bit or smoking something medicinal, lest you end up...

Looks like a calendar-confused emerging skunk cabbage

There is a misconception that artesian water is somehow healthier for you than other water. It is merely water between two sloping impermeable layers, usually clays in our area, which builds up pressure as it becomes increasingly confined due to the angle of the layers. Punch a hole through the...

I must have sold my geology textbook when I was done with it but I still have my '78-issued Cook/Douglass pub card! I sure needed a haircut back then.

I was just perusing the Bass River History Blog and found some additional info on the Munion Field area. It seems that one of the many failed real estate schemes in the pine barrens was attempted at this site as well, called Appleby Estates. Based on the maps posted on that blog entry, it might...

Hmmm. How about sandwort?

I would say #1: Sand Myrtle, #2: Gallberry (AKA Gallbery Holly, AKA Inkberry), #3 Hudsonia, #4 Winged Sumac

I just canoed past the Superfund site on the Maurice with a group Sunday. Aside from the concerns over the water quality, it was the most obstacle-ridden stretch I've paddled in the last 20 years. Only Cedar Creek, just downstream of Bamber, was worse. A brave soul had done some clearing, but it...

Well I'm glad I'm not alone in sometimes expressing my feminine side. A good while back, I stopped my truck on a sand road and walked ahead to shoo a snake out of harm's way. When I was almost on top of it I realized it was a big rattler. My daughter, who was in the truck, said I screamed like a...