OVERPUMPING OF AQUIFER, OVERDEVELOPMENT THREATEN PINELANDS, REPORT SAYS
- Thread starter Teegate
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It's about time that others notice this phenomenon.
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/thr...cal-to-pinelands-ecosystems.9903/#post-119318
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/a-new-fight-over-how-to-save-the-pinelands.5196/#post-58550
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/check-your-basement.6120/#post-72857
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http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/thr...cal-to-pinelands-ecosystems.9903/#post-119318
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/a-new-fight-over-how-to-save-the-pinelands.5196/#post-58550
http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/check-your-basement.6120/#post-72857
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Report: Pinelands water supply takes big hit
http://www.courierpostonline.com/st...inelands-water-supply-takes-big-hit/13751907/
http://www.courierpostonline.com/st...inelands-water-supply-takes-big-hit/13751907/
It's certainly no news flash that these areas are over-developed. Considering how far this has gone, I wonder is anything can be done about it at this point?
Having seen how are elected folks react to problems, they will just lower the standards. Simple solutions from simple minds.
Good luck telling people they can't have their lawns, gardens, swimming pools, koi ponds, golf courses and soccer fields.
Has anyone else noticed that many folks who want to move into the Barrens seem to not like the Barrens? I mean when they put their house in they immediately clear all native trees and shrubs from their property.They take out the Pitch Pine,Scrub Oak and Sassafras and plant Japanese Maple,Norway Spruce and maybe some Cherry trees.They get rid of the Huckleberry,Mountain Laurel and Sheep Laurel and plant Juniper,Hydrangea and English Ivy.They spread orange dirt over the sand and import garden soil in to replace the humus layer they ripped up and then they grow grass that could never make it in a barrens ecosystem.They then of course need to suck up large amounts of water to support all this non native mesic type vegetation they have imported into a seriously xeric environment and then they bitch about having to mow the grass and heaven forbid if they should get a tick on them.They are generally not happy till they have converted the Pine barrens into the Pine Burbs.Okay Rants over,I do feel much better.
That is so true Al. When I moved here in 2006 the previous owner had done lots of landscaping with flower beds, ornamental trees, fences, etc. Took awhile, but I destroyed it all and now just have a "cabin in the woods". The only grass I need to cut is over the septic field 
. I decided not to cut down a few Norway Spruce though, they are turning into nice looking big trees.
. I decided not to cut down a few Norway Spruce though, they are turning into nice looking big trees.
I overpump the aquifer at the well head at Batona camp. That is my oasis when I am spending a long day in Wharton.
I cleared the brush out of my side lot but it was so thick you had to fight to get through it.I have found over 100 beer bottles buried in the duff obviously thrown from the road by people driving or walking by.As the duff subsided over about five years after I cleared it more bottles would appear every year.I hit three yellowjacket nests in it while clearing,had shorts on each time,what fun!I left any tree as big as my calf around.I have had a couple die since then and one great pine snapped ten feet off the ground during the derecho that put a fish sized hole in the roof from a top limb as it went down.The trees are very scary in a storm but in the summer I have the best shaded yard around.A few big pines and a good many medium to large oaks both white and black.Another benefit is no grass! My wife wanted grass but upon researching it there is no grass that will grow well under the shade of trees.I want moss but thats not practical because all the grandkids playing in the yard would tramp it down so I"m stuck with a sandy humus layer that gets the kids really nasty when it's wet ,it seems to be getting sandier as the humus degrades.I rake every year so it's not getting replenished.I had to mow the huckleberry a few years but it gave up.I like barefootin it and huckleberry will rip your toes up if you don't watch out.I also dropped the one holly tree we had for that very reason.All the new houses they put in down here first thing they do is drop every tree on the property? Why? Takes a long time to grow a good tree.
It is encouraged.
Do You Have What It Takes? 100 feet of Defensible Space
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/fire/firewise-protecting-homes.htm
Do You Have What It Takes? 100 feet of Defensible Space
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/fire/firewise-protecting-homes.htm
And add all those freakin' farms to the list; blueberry, cranberry, tomato, asparagus, strawberries, beans, peppers, melons, cucumbers, pumpkins. What were they thinkin"?
At least we can eat those things.Who eats grass? Geese?Nothin purtier then a cranberry bog thats been abandoned for thirty years.