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    Biking in the Pines

    Sandy Hook added a Multi-use patch paved for walkers, joggers, skaters & bikes too
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    Old backpacker Article on the Barrens

    I should have that issue in my stack of early backpacker mags. They were works of art w/ alot less hype b/4 Ziff-Davis took over. It was fun to read the article.
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    Matlack superfund site

    This and Chemical Leman's site in Bridgeport were state of the art in 1960 and both were on the EPA lists by the 80's. Both companies trucked waste to DuPont for years as the EPA had stopped the use of the lagoons during the 80's and they were pumped out then. Chem Leaman's successor Quality...
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    Turkey

    Shalks Crossing is part of Plainsboro/South Brunswick. There are a lot of turkey in East Windsor & Assunpink too. Regarding Turkeys leaving their roost trees, up our cabin in the Poconos, they roost around the spring and wait until you are ben over dipping a bucket of water b/4 bursting forth...
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    Vehicle for traveling sand roads

    straps... One item that Mudboy didn't cover about recovery straps. Avoid the straps that come w/ metal hooks! The hooks are known to break and become bullet-like. There are stories and pictures on 4X4 boards with the hook end sticking thru the window of the stuck vehicle after the hook...
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    Stinkbugs!

    I have 'vent visors' on my truck. Last fishing trip to Stone Tavern, when I got in the truck to back the trailer down I saw a few on my passenger window. When I opened it to put the cooler and tackle box away the whole door jam was covered w/ them...Took me a few minutes to sweep them out of the...
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    Southern Pine Bark Beetle

    I have the same problem in the Poconos, our cabin lease has close to 20 dead oaks from the gypsy moths, I just had the ranger mark the ones I can remove so they won't fall on the cabin. He marked 14. I was at the New Jersey Wild Outdoor Expo on Sept 25th inside Assunpink WMU and there was one...
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    Statewide Fall Bow Opener

    PA always was 50 yards for archery VRS 150 yards for rifle. They don't have to be in a tree stand shooting at the ground either, just can't shoot into the safety zone. The big difference is that any outbuilding is included in the safety zone so a garden shed at the back of the yard pushes the...
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    Stink bugs!

    I was fishing yesterday at Stone Tavern Lake. I have AVS vent visors on my truck and leave the windows open 'bout 1/4"... When I got back there were a few on the inside of my passenger window. After loading the boat, I opened that door and an infestation all around the door opening...I was...
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    Blizzard Hunt

    Great pictures! The lab looks very well trained but my wife was looking over my shoulder and she really liked the picture of your springer pup. Something different about the woods in deep snow...
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    John deere junket

    Looks like they had fun! I never skied behind a vehicle bit I had a ton of rides sitting on the tailgate of a '62 Willys CJ5 holding onto the tailgate chains for dear life...lot's of rides inthe back of a pickup truck too! We never had 4x4 so driving in dirt roads to hunt when Dad's...
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    Breaker One Nine

    I still have a few mobiles, a Realistic 40 channel w/ weather band; a Midland 23 channel w/ USB/LSB and a Browning 23 channel. Oh Yeah, a Cobra 40 channel that was in the Jimmy when Dad passed. I wish I still had his Pierce-Simpson w/ the power mike...he had it 'tuned + turned up' & sold it a...
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    Questions about Quarries

    depends It all depends on what they are taking out, how deep it is and what the DEP has permitted. Some of the first successful steam engines during the industrial revolution were used to pump out the cornish coal and tin mines in England. Often sand pits have been dredged, like the one...
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    Archery Opens Statewide Oct. 3, 2009

    I live near Assinpink WMU and I've been seeing a fair number of parked cars. Alot of guys park after work and hunt till dark on weekdays. I have to agree w/ Germaine about 'modern' muzzleloaders. I hunt in PA w/ a rifle but I do carry a flintlock during october's anterless muzzleloader week...
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    Direction that the Site is Going In

    Continous improvement. Keep up the good work!
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    Batsto and their outhouses

    Our cabin in the Poconos had a 2-holer when I was younger. Environmental regulations improved during the early 70's and we were forced to re-build it over a sealed septic tank the new unit was designed for solo operations. The old one room schoolhouse [torn down a few years ago] down the road...
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    I just had to post this.

    That and the 'feel good' but unecessary laws like you can only buy one handgun a month in a state where you need a card to own a long gun and another card to buy a handgun. The process is one of the most regulated on the country and now you can only do it once a month [like you could get a card...
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    Campers at Columbus?

    What a place. I have mid 60's memories from the other end of the state. Camp Weygat the exit is where NJ has the truck scale now. Bug Juce was a 5 lb bag of Govmt Surplus grape drink [immitation Kool Aide] We used to hike to the top of the Water Gap and look NW down past the Indian head & we...
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    By by Kodachrome.....

    It had a 25 year repreive. Alot of Pros have refridgerators full so it will be around for a while; might even create a blackmarket demand.
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