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Found this guy in the cedar swamp today. Very docile. Let me pick him up and all. Eastern King Snake, right? http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10011/MVC-003S.JPG

Does the weather get any better than this? Wow!

During the Forked River Mountain Cleanup today we uncovered 2 pine snakes, hiding out under shingles. Also found this guy. I thought it was a Norther Fence Lizard, but the head is not right. Do you herp guys know why it looks different? Is is something else...

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/NEWS/604220328 I always wondered why some enterprising person has not figured out a way to use these dead deer. He could go by body heat to see which he could turn into dog food.

Christmas 1969 I think...

Thats how many ticks I pulled off tonite while walking 90 minutes on a trail with scattered blueberry bushes. Luckily, I had very faded blue jeans on. They are great for spotting them.

This past Sunday, the Pine Barren Explorers got together to do a wilderness bushwhack in an area few people ever visit. It is bounded by the upper reaches of the Oswego River and Warren Grove Bombing Range. Its tight back there, real tight and very raw. It is clean pine barren wilderness. We...

The Pine Barrens Tree Frog, Hyla Andersonii, has a ticket on the ark: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/02/21/frog.fungus/index.html

I had an interesting coversation with someone today. I have always been interested in the watershed northwest of Chatsworth Lake, where the Wading is born. I was telling him I wanted to explore it because it looks like the waters of the Rancocas and the Wading mingle at one point, a difficult...

Boyd, I love this photo. I vote it photo of the month (in fact 2 months!). It has an ethereal quality to it combined with a somber, kind of earthly dark side. In fact, all your photos are great. Do you have any tips for a good landscape camera and settings? bob...

Wierd thing at work today. I went out the door around noon to go to lunch and right next to the sidewalk not 2 feet from the door was a dead pigeon. He was lying on his back with his head torn completely off and his breast and thorax had been munched on. All very recently and cleanly done. I...

This article reminded me of something that happened this weekend: http://www.ocobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS01/602220352/1002 Jeff and Steve, do you remember me taking you to a spot about a mile or so East of Forked River Mountain and there was a primitive type camp...

They are draining the lake. A shot from this evening's sunset (heavily touched up). http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10011/one.JPG

Great day for a hike. I'm a going to the mountain. Gonna get so my hearts beating, my nose is running, and I feel ALIVE! The sun is out and the view will be grand! Leaving with Buddy about 1:30. If anyone wants to join me I'll tell you where to meet me on Lacey Road. Whoops, too slow, try...

Tomorrow's weather will bring out the best of you photo bugs. Ben has told me secretly that a $2,500,000 prize for the best snow scene to be published prior to 6 PM Sunday evening will be awarded. One caveat, the photo must be identifiable as originating within our pine barrens. This could mean...

For all my groovy pine barren friends out there, this is a cool article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/10/cool.ap/index.html

I purchased a book about Pine barren woody plants and received it a couple weeks ago. Michael Geller, a Stockton Professor is the author. In the front he describes why the barrens are barren, and its the best explanation I have ever seen, and I have seen most. Here is a quote I particularly...

NJ has a nice site now that shows them all by clicking on the name: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/wmaland.htm What intrigues me is this tiny area of .68 acre. I wonder why its there? http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/wmamaps/pennsauken_access.pdf I figured it out, I think. Its...

This may be us someday. Think all is well, and... http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/13/zarrella.bts/index.html

Went to Body Works at the Franklin Museum in Philadelphia today. Very, very interesting.