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You're here! This site is great starting resource of historic accounts and has a great collection of historic maps. Search any post made by Jerseyman and you will no doubt find a tremendous amount of information about many places and people in the pines. Good luck. Scott

Here is the full itinerary. http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/poster.pdf

I like that a lot! I didn't realize it but I have rebarred on numerous occasions. :)

The first step is to go to your local PD and fill out the paperwork for a NJ Firearms Purchasers ID Card. Start now while you're still young. Depending on your PD, this process will take anywhere from a few months to close to a year. My son has been waiting 6 months and counting. There is a...

I never felt so old and unwanted. :)

I don't want to hijack this thread so I will try to put something together for the "for sale" forum.

I won't be around for this but maybe some of you would like to attend. Scott http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2008/fshforumsouth.htm

Nice truck. For a Chevy! :) Best body style they ever had. It really is a nice truck Whitingrider. Its an oldy and a goody. My dream truck was always a '79 F-350. Unfortunately, by the time I could afford one it was 1997! So, I bought a '97 F-350. I still have it and it is bulletproof...

I found this fallen, decaying tree last week in Parkdale when I was walking with my wife. For me, it held stories because it was formerly a hunter's tree stand. Its steps were railroad spikes and it had a little platform near the top. It had probably been laying for 10 years or more and I...

Why yes I did. Cook Class of '81. While I wasn't an animal science major, I had a lot of friends who were and I always liked cattle. Cook was a great place to go to school because you could shut out the urban world around you in a just a few seconds by taking a walk down to the barns or...

I was only kidding Sue. I know what happens to the males. I had a dairy farmer in the family when I was little and I showed holsteins for a few years when I was in college as part of our Agricultural Field Day. (I took a second place ribbon with a big old girl named Legacy Vestal Biscuit in...

Hmmmmmm. I wonder what happens to all those male dairy cows? :(

Sue, That was an enlightening point of view on the handling of livestock. I thoroughly enjoy these discussions and usually try to limit myself to presenting the regulatory side of hunting and trapping with just a little personal opinion thrown in. :) When I step back, I think the only...

Trapping is deeply rooted in the human instinct and drive to harvest animals for food and clothing and pre-dated all forms of hunting with weapons. I hunt because I was fortunate enough to be respectfully raised in that tradition and I have raised my sons the same. I trap (or attempt to trap...

Lots of woodies around these parts. I just got back from a lightly snowy trudge through the woods tonight and I flushed a pair out of a mud hole. In November, I had a small flock landing in a large puddle every night for a week. I surprised them on the third night and dropped a pair for the...

Jeff, There is no power to the snare. They are designed for the animal to pass through, not step on. They are suspended from a standing wire, usually 14 ga. or thicker The snare is stranded wire with a formed loop and a sliding lock. The end of the snare must have a swivel and that end is...

Ben, It is NOT illegal to bait the snare set. You must keep your bait at least 30' from the snare OR conceal the bait from view if it is less than 30' from the set. This is to minimize the chances of birds swooping in on the bait and getting in the snare. I have been using mullet as bait...

I am a licensed trapper and have only recently begun experimenting with snares. Just because it is legal to trap in an area, doesn't make it a good place to trap. One really needs to excecise some good judgement in snare palcement as far as proximity to people and likelihood of snaring...

Very nice Jeff. Yesterday was a beautiful day to be in the woods and enjoying that cobalt winter sky.

I walk 3 miles +/ in the woods around here almost every day of the year rain or shine. I was questioned once about what I was doing by a young game warden, probably because I was dessed in camo but I didn't have a gun with me that night. He ended up asking me if there were any known...