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Mining of sand and gravel is very much a part of the pines heritage and history. The Pinelands Commission recognizes this and to anyone who works with the Pinelands Commission Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP), as I do in land use permitting, realizes that sand mining is a necessary part of...

The newest high accuracy baseline for instrument calibration is along the easterly right of way of route 54 in Folsom starting at the intersection of Mays Landing road and running south towards the Egg Harbor River crossing. It was finished last year. I went to a seminar in January at the...

We never heard of Solidworks . We are currently transitioning all of our CAD drafting software to Landesktop which operates with Autocad. It is supposed to be a great system and compatible with our data collector but I won't be using it much since I am not a draftsman. I still do most of my...

I am a licensed land surveyor and I receive several professional journals throughout the year including a monthly called American Surveyor. This month's edition has an article about early meridian stones in Nantucket that were used as a reference for true north and as a means of measuring...

I apologize for hijacking the thread and ramming a pipe through the spokes of the wheels of the welcome wagon. I don't apologize for anything else. As you can see, it doesn't take much to fire me up. Scott

What I find "scary" is that people can devote so much energy to crack-pot causes like protecting the interests of circus elephants (really, read one of their forums about tracking circuses). There is no shortage of human suffering and mistreatment of children in this world, including right here...

I am sure you will score high with any veterans on this site. The Elephant Commentator is pretty scary too. Scott

I always feel like I am bulletproof and at 47 3/4 yrs. old, so far it has been holding true. No surgeries, diseases, broken bones, hospital stays and no medications of any kind, not even aspirin. It might be the homemade wine and chewing tobacco. I took my first guzzlings of the Batsto in...

My '97 F-350 gasser is a 5 spd with a creeper and my '02 F-350 diesel is a 6 spd with a creeper. The '02 has a German ZF heavy duty trans with a nice short throw and tight gates. My wife drives both (she learned on a manual) and my youngest son has a 5 spd 'Yota. My older son likes autos. I...

Turkey opened statewide on April 18th. The permits are day-specific. Mine is for Saturdays only. There are permits for each day of the week. Only in N.J.! The season ends May 27. Scott

Nice post in their forum Steve. It will be interesting to see the reply from WNJ. I have been carrying some sort of knife almost since birth, its just the way I was raised. My grandfather and father were never without a knife. It sounds like your daughter's friend wasn't taking any chances...

Are you sure you were in Hammonton? I never heard of either of those roads around this area. Scott

Steve I took one still photo of the eagle perched in the tree but it was too far away to make out any detail. This was before the aerial attack. There were 4 of us in my boat and my one buddy yelled when the osprey swooped in and we all looked up and saw the action. Couldn't grab the camera...

Went fishing on East Creek Pond in Belleplain yesterday and as usual, the bald eagles were working the lake. So were the ospreys. We watched an eagle perched in a dead tree for about 20 minutes. We tried to drift in closer for a look-see when an osprey cruised in screeching like a banshee...

When deer start growling I am hanging up my gun or puttin' away the homemade wine! :eek: Another scary distortion and misstatement of fact in the article is that "buckshot only travels 150 feet " Where the hell did Platt grow up ? Let me guess, Cherry Hill ? Buckshot will travel nearly a...

We did the engineering and surveying for a residential subdivision in Bowers Delaware last year and a family plot was discovered during the review process. I did the boundary fieldwork and there was no indication of graves or of any kind of protected area on the farm. Our plans were submitted...

All of the above are correct Dave. Coon hunting is a gun dog sport that is very primal and brings on a deep respect for the night woods and the hunted as well. I have hunted as a guest with the group (South Jersey Treehound Association) that Largo is referring to back before distemper...

My youngest son just got locked up at college (Millersville Univ.) for detonating illegal fireworks. They cuffed him and charged him and a friend with disorderly persons and waived the fireworks possession. They somehow got their paws on commercial grade fireworks and were lauching the from...

I never knew what kind of turtles they were. I remember them being small and green with a soft shell. Bobbleton enlightened me when he said the slider was not native to NJ but that are mainly a result of people releasing them. I never knew anyone that had any that lived long enough to release.

I had no idea that an industry existed for the sale of turtles. I thought that was banned when I was a little kid in the 60's. Back then you could buy those little green turtles at Woolworths for $0.50. You placed them in a fish bowl and gave them some bogus turtle food that they sold you...