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Thanks John, you make good points. After 15 years of doing this though, we are in the maintenence mode. This Swains Bog area was unusual in that people used to live there (some without claim to the property) and the state finally told them to 'git! Still, we do realize that we can never slack...

Always in April. Good 'ol PL.

From Ocean County Public Works today: Please be advised that the below listed tonnages and tires were disposed of or recycled during the 2010 Forked River Mt. Clean Up: Garbage to the Landfill: 25.53 Tons Recycled Tires: 4 Car tires and 1 Truck Tire Recycled Concrete: 19.15 Tons

I love the first one! It screams BIG, BRAWNY, BONANZA! Sunny days in the piney woods.....picnics with fried chicken, tater salad, and apple pie.

We did a FRMC cleanup Sunday from Swains bog all the way to Webb's Mill. Did you see it after that day? We really did a job Sunday. Mucho Gracias to Guy and Chris (Hewey) and Jessica. They helped me and did a fantastic days work. I love it when people come out and unselfishly lend a hand. And...

The paint marks are hideous, whoever made them. What do they say about the people who grabbed a can from the car or truck and gleefully made them...what the hell do they think we have here, a fun-house for their own personal enjoyment? No different from graffiti when they only serve the ego of...

Very interesting! Number 1 is Leiophyllum buxifolium....sand myrtle. Numbers 2 and 3 looks like Carex canescens.....silver sedge. Number 4 looks like Gaylusaccia baccata......black huckleberry. Number 5 is unknow to me....but I'm thinking dewberry or blackberry.

Nice movie clip. Good work! Is that a water snake? It almost looks like a garter.

That is Carex pennslyvanica. I'm sure of it. Found mostly in the uplands. Sorry I did not make it Tom. I was tied up, and tomorrow doing the Forked River Mtn area cleanup.

I was seriously considering it, but my friend asked me to do a charity walk in Pennsylvania that day. Maybe next year. Springs are usually chock-a-block!

Coral did cross my mind, but I was looking at the aristotle's lantern of the urchins and see a resemblance. I don't think coral have that kind of thing. http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/03ecology/flimg/09924treDSCN7585.jpg

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You have some good stuff there Tom. First one in the pink looks like Galactia regularis or at least a Galactia. Not sure of the others, though the third photo is a monicot (one leaf coming up is the key). It may be an orchid. The first one on the bottom post is an Eleocharis, and the others are...

I wish I knew. Lets consider though, that NJ was covered with seawater many times. And, I have heard that the FRMs were formed because of the great rivers that flowed through NJ on the way to the sea, and that the mountain was just a gravel sand bar. I want to say......greater than 20,000 years ago.

I found this on the slope of Forked River Mountain last nite. I had walked there from Lacey Road. Very cool. The rains uncovered it. I think it is from a group of marine animals called Echinoderm. Or maybe from the Order Actiniaria...maybe a sea anemone?

Nice shot. Regarding the timbler rattle, it sounds somewhat soft, like an insect buzzing....it is not usually real distinct.

Pushing those pines over really angers me Ed. What kind of person would intentionally do that?

I agree. I love sunsets with the pines in the foreground. That's a good-un.

I like the last one best Whip. It gives the feeling of dampness and rain in a big way....sodden, sultry....I get the vibes from the photo that I feel on some of those days in the pines.

You stole the words right out of my mouth Boyd. "In New York lately, as in cities generally, one seems to lose all substance, and become surface in a world of all surfaces." (Ralph W. Emerson..1842).