I think that is a good call. I hate calling trees without the leaves for ID. I initially thought silver maple, but was apprehensive to say it because they usually don't last for a long time.
Speaking of books, this 2017 book I borrowed from Barnegat library is mesmerizing. From design/build, to flight, to death, it's 178 pages of fantastic history.
I went to this building last year. I don't recall seeing a stream gage, but I always wondered what's inside the building. I think it's private property to get there.
More on the one I have. Someone pasted these articles in the back, probably Robert Blanchard himself, since Bisbee thanked him, and Blanchard wrote the newspaper praise.
I'm only mildly interested in snakes, but from what I see, my uneducated guess is that all in all, they should have just burned the slash. I can't see a pine snake liking that at all. They like burrowing under the base of those pygmy pines, or even in the open.
I got an answer. It's decaying remains of a slash pile where researchers placed cut pine plains brush that was removed from Broom Crowberry sites to open it up to the sun, and so the slash was placed like that to hopefully enhance pine snake habitat. It was done about a dozen years ago.
I have a feeling (just a feeling mind you), that dead wood may have something to do with regeneration of Broom Crowberry sites. I do have a person that may know. By the way, does your real first name begin with an "M"? Your profile photo is a bit dark.
Guy, it also sounds like a wind noise. Like the air rushing under there is being funnelled through the frame in an odd way.
Did you happen to tear off a fairing on the front of the car in the woods?