Naturalist makes case for Pinelands dunes

Teegate

Teegate

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Bob and Steve...the "desert" area near Wescoat Bogs is the most prime example of what he is talking about that I have ever been in.

Guy
 
woodjin

woodjin

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Pretty nice article! Sounds like a guy I'd like to meet. He kind of reminds me of Bob except into geology instead of botony. I think it is his attention to small detail. I agree with you about the desert Guy, but what immeditely comes to mind when I think of dunes in the barrens is the pine plains. whenever I'm out there I always expect to come around a corner and see the atlantic ocean!

Jeff
 
woodjin

woodjin

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It seems to me that the vernal pools are always being encroached upon by heath family plants, leather leaf. Now, is the leather leaf drinking in the water and drying it up, or is the leather leaf moving in because the water is slowly comming back less and less each year?

Has anyone noticed a gradual "drying up" of the barrens? I'm not sure if I have. It fluctuates too much to notice.

Jeff
 
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