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Jeff, I should have said it before, but thank you for bringing your discovery here--you're going to wind up connected with the right people to investigate it and preserve it. My remark was based on an 1878 NJ Geological Survey report on the clay deposits of New Jersey. On p. 256, it states...

Somewhat apropos: are there any remains of the Townsend clay pits? The location given for them more or less corresponds to the isolated building marked "D. Townsend" on the 1872 map, but aside from one small flooded hole at the edge of a food plot, I don't see any extensive excavations on LIDAR...

Having lurked here for 20 years before registering, I generally like it here (I would say that, wouldn't I?). I agree the atmosphere is generally good, albeit the last "Where should we be allowed to drive" thread got a bit overripe. I'm glad that didn't cost us anyone permanently. (But I looked...

I looked up the Pemberton Township Zoning Map (dated May 3, 2021) and this particular parcel is zoned "Infill Residential District with Planned Retirement Community Conditional Use". It's the only area in the township so zoned; I presume it got rezoned at some point in the past to permit this...

Oh no, it definitely was a problem! Fine anthracite coal was not readily burned in standard fireboxes during the 19th Century, and was dumped together with waste rock in enormous heaps called "culm piles". From here, of course, the coal fines washed into rivers draining the coalfield, such as...

The aerials are Dallin Aerial Services birds-eye photos. They are also available in the Hagley Digital Collection. (The Hagley might be interested in scanning your album--the original Martha Diary is also deposited there.) I like the little dredge with the shanty on it, and attached pipeline...

Thanks, that gives me some idea. I know if I'm in the mountains, I do give some thought to not putting my hand into, or directly in front of, niches that might accommodate a rattlesnake as it might not give warning. If they're mostly hanging out in open country to thermoregulate that's not very...

Very nice! Saw P. clavellata and P. blephariglottis along the Skit Saturday with a few friends. At an entirely different and distant location, we found an adult Crotalus horridus in some reeds at the water's edge, which was a distinct surprise! Looks like I last saw one of those 11 years ago...

Sori I think are a bit over-emphasized as a character. In my experience, when I was learning ferns, the hardest ones to get a grip on were the very "ferny", lacy ones, which all seemed to blend together to me. Fortunately, we have a relatively sparse fern flora here in the northeast compared to...

I assume it's a combination of the loss of Ted's activity and the general disruption of COVID, which in my experience has knocked a lot of volunteer groups all galley-west just by throwing routines off the tracks. I was sort of expecting Mark and the other usual suspects to have put up a few...

Longtime PBC member (I've met and/or been in the field with you, Russ, oji, Ted, Mark, Terry etc. at various times). My day job is in science and teaching generally, not botany, but I am often out in the field, and I do a certain amount of volunteer restoration work in my own country west of the...

The biggest population I've seen is also at a very accessible site, and on comparatively open dry ground (although I'm sure it gets wetter when the adjacent water level goes up). I looked through some photos I took on one of the savannas last year and some of them were on ground, albeit not bare...

My general experience is that fern and lycophyte gametophytes need at least a tiny patch of bare ground for the spore to germinate. I thought I remembered reading that you could once see gametophytes of S. pusilla in the open at Webbs Mill when the population was in better shape, but I can't...

Sort of related, but does anyone know what successional processes would create areas of bare sand for Schizaea and clubmoss gametophytes to establish? Fire in a dry year? I can see how limited flooding would be marginally helpful in retarding white-cedar growth, but if anything, it would lead to...

I think "Mount" was Joseph's surname. Kobbe says "site of the Alligator" in 1891. From the snippets of Zinkin's "Place Names of Ocean County" I can pull from Google Books, it looks like Garret Hines had a tavern there or near there in 1804, and Joseph Mount in 1837.

Gustav Kobbe has us covered in his guidebook to "The New Jersey Coast and Pines". The Alligator, as one might suspect from the definite article, was a tavern. "derived its name from the figure-head of a wrecked vessel, which was nailed to a tree opposite the tavern". Seems straightforward...

Nice. I was going to poke around for it in Salem Co. this spring, but it was so hectic I never got to it.

Hm. I wouldn't say I fully disagree, but while I'd say there is a gradient in personalities from people who are compulsive rule-followers to the oppositionally defiant, I think in practice a lot of people manage to compartmentalize breaking a particular set of laws without being generally...

I think that's an eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. The plant is some kind of monocot with a glaucous stem, obviously, but I haven't gotten further than that.

No offense, but what's the point of discussing any of this? I think everyone, or almost everyone, on these boards agrees that spungs and asphodel and pine snakes are good and we would like to see more of them and those doing well. So I think we also all agree that people should not be riding...