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Probably due to wheel slip (from slippery rail, starting a heavy train, etc.)

It's common enough as an invasive in Piedmont successional forests.

A quick review suggests that it takes some adaptation to make a GoPro suitable for a "daily driver" dashcam (it's not easy to save specific footage from being overriden). My guess would be that the couple was using it to make "MY DRIVE TO THE JERSEY DEVIL" TikTok content or something so it...

Zinc chloride toxicity (cf. the link to 1942 operations) is acute; it appears to be the result of hydrolysis to zinc oxychloride and hydrochloric acid, the latter of which will burn mucous membranes, etc. Zinc contamination is bad for aquatic life (high concentrations may affect the embryonic...

I have questions.

Phragmites is a freshwater plant, although it does tolerate brackish water.

Their yard may have sumac, and it may have poison ivy, but unless it's a high-quality freshwater wetland, it probably doesn't have poison sumac. (I was afraid of all sumacs and things with pinnately-compound leaves generally as a kid, not understanding this distinction.)

Ooh, a peloric Pogonia. I remember seeing a peloric Calopogon on a PBC trip to Forsythe about 15 years ago (you might have been there, in fact).

Twinkle, twinkle--there's my post. ;) A good indicator of other types of "barrens" habitat--you find it on former serpentine savannas that have succeeded to closed canopy, for instance.

Thanks for your kind words! I'm a little pressed right now, but I'd be happy to try to clean this up a bit for the front page in the future. There was a lot of careful nosing around in online sources for this one, but there's a lot more potential archival work. The Curtis family papers at Yale...

I think "open Satanist" is probably less a moral statement and more a signal of the kind of personality that can't be happy unless they've visibly upsetting people around them. Sort of like getting something lascivious tattooed on your face, but easier to reverse. But yes, what does the deputy...

We hear a lot about how terrible anonymity is on social media, but boy, people will post some absolutely deranged stuff under their real names on Facebook (and probably Nextdoor).

The answer is probably sheer lack of resources; the Forest Fire Service spends a lot of time, well, putting out fires. Obviously a well-thinned forest poses less overall fire risk, and they try, but they have a lot of territory to manage and a lot of wildland-urban interface to worry about. DEP...

I trolled through the State Police Facebook post comments so you don't have to. Supposedly her car was found hydrolocked in a hole on Lost Lane "the day she went missing". (4/13?) Someone pulled it out and posted it to the "NJ Stuck in the Mud" Facebook group. It looks like she may have been...

Nah, that was the last part. It's mostly little fragments carefully extracted by targeted searches in Google Books, the Library of Congress newspaper database (patchy but still useful!) and some other odds and ends. I find writing up pieces like this helps me integrate what I've been learning...

Part 3: A Pack of Princes The Almanach de Gotha, that famous handbook of European nobility, lists the five sons of Prince Mario Ruspoli: Costantino Carlo Michele Agustino (b. July 8, 1891) Marescotti Carlo Maurizio Gilberto (b. October 17, 1892) Alessandro Edmondo Eugenio (b. May 14, 1895)...

Part 2: Don't count your chickens, unless they're insured The tract salvaged from the Chatsworth Park Company was presumably what Trail of the Blue Comet refers to as Godfrey's "share of the Beers lands" (p. 197), transferred in 1908 to the newly-formed Chatsworth Estates Company (of New...

I think most of us are familiar with the story of the Ruspolis and the rise and fall of the Chatsworth Park Company and the Chatsworth Club, as recounted by Beck and McPhee. However, on carefully examining some of the scraps of evidence, there are parts of the story that are a little more...

This is New Jersey, that's not a bar to various forms of political involvement.

Happy International Beaver Day, everyone!