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I have never seen anything like the raised features on the marsh, but my first guess regarding the ponds would be related to mosquito control, as already mentioned. Salt hay harvesting often involved diking the meadows, but I’m not sure they would have created deeper impoundments like those seem...

There are the test wells on Rt 532 and another group on Brookville Rd. The water from the park's well gets tested regularly also. I only get the results from the park's well, which has never had any problems. I've seen what you observed and never given it much thought, assuming it was the type...

It looks like you guys passed very close to the ancient abandoned pickup with wooden spoked wheels. It’s nestled within a patch of laurel and only easily spotted after a prescribed burn (which was when I first saw it).

I started a Facebook account a few months ago for the same benefits Greg described, getting in touch with old friends. I was immediately besieged with e-mails notifying me of messages and friends requests from coworkers, family members in my own household, and other people I see or talk too on a...

It may be regarding an Ocean County College sailing facility that has been in the works for a number of years now. Not much was happening on the project, and I seemed to have forgotten the few details I was aware of. My brain isn’t holding onto things as it once did.

I stopped by Rays once when I was in the area to replenish some of my fly tying supplies. I walked out with a 20 gauge Ruger Red Label over/under from their used gun rack. Moral….never keep your firearm ID card in the glove box!

At work, looking out the office window at the rain. But I did manage to get two screech owl nest boxes into trees berfore the rain picked up.

For longarms a one-time permit to purchase ID is obtained. For handguns, a separate permit to purchase must be applied for each time a weapon is purchased, in addition to the original firearm purchasers ID card. Both involve a variable time span for background checks

I was days away from going to my local police station to apply for the paperwork for a new handgun when I ended up putting my disposable funds into my oil tank instead. :mad: I was hoping to add a GI-style 1911 to my collection. Looks like I’m saving my pennies, once again!

I’m with gipsie in my love of Ithaca 37s. I finally put mine into semi-retirement to protect it from the harsh waterfowling conditions I hunt under and replaced it with a Benelli Nova pump. The Ithaca could take the abuse, but the original company is long gone and I want mine to last. If you...

I think I have that same map. Mine is marked on an origional quad. (well, not really mine, but an office copy) Did you get that from Mickey? I'm certainly up for checking it out.

Does anyone have any details regarding Ridley Field, in the Forked River Mountain tract? I have heard about it from a few sources in the past and have always neglected learning more about a site located so close to me. I recently came across an account written by Elizabeth Morgan, as told to her...

I believe there is a picture of Snuffy in Bob Birdsall's book "People of the Pines".

To get from Philly to Barnegat, I would have thought the Philadelphia and Long Branch RR to Whiting, then the Tuckerton RR to Barnegat would have been the most direct. The CNJ intersected the P&LB at Whiting, but to take the CNJ to Barnegat from there would required going north to Lakehurst...

Whenever much of the water ices up, water birds of all types concentrate near whatever open water still exists. That not only includes wading birds and waterfowl, but also fish eating raptors, like eagles. Bird watchers and hunters end up with fewer places to find birds but more variety and...

I always go a bit overboard cautioning those new to chainsaws. I worked for about 6 years as an arborist and developed a healthy respect for the potential devastation a chainsaw can cause. When I had my business I only allowed employees to use them alone after many hours of supervised use and...

Yes, I accused him of showing off too! I guess it didn't work out the way he intended.

I hunt, but also find also find deer driving not very appealing. Some will claim it is the only way deer hunters can be successful in the pine barrens, but the deer I’ve taken would beg to differ. I also was very disgusted when they made baiting legal. I prefer to pit my wits against those of...

Pancoast, that was my son, at Stafford Forge, as you well know, who I find myself more often referring (affectionately) to as “Dumbass”. Eighteen year olds and four wheel drive trucks are often a bad combo! As you said, he could have went around it but he wanted to show he could go through...

Some great tips here, many of which I’ve used myself over the years. I’ve owned both 4x4 and 4x2 trucks and have done my share of getting stuck. New off-roaders often think 4x 4s make you invincible, but experience teaches you a 4x4 in the wrong hands only gets stuck worse. One precaution I...