Anyone know of this place? Their site says they've been around since 1961, in one form or another.
http://unexpectedwildliferefuge.org/
http://unexpectedwildliferefuge.org/
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The problem with this place is it is hard to get to and find. And before you go you really should call her. The reason for that is a woman lives there and you have to drive past her house to the parking area which is her property. It basically is a private residence I believe and it would be in her and your best interest to let her know you are coming. I went with Ted Gordon who knows her so even though she was not home we went anyway. He tried calling her a few times. I would never have drove into the property without him knowing her.
Anyway, it is an interesting explore but not a place that I would feel comfortable at. There is private land all around it. I liked the place quite a bit but I like being and parking away from people even more.
Anyway, it is an interesting explore but not a place that I would feel comfortable at. There is private land all around it. I liked the place quite a bit but I like being and parking away from people even more.
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http://www.abebooks.com/Unexpected-Treasure-Owner-Wildife-Refuge-New/4407992678/bd
This book and one more were written about the refuge.
http://www.amazon.com/Beaversprite-Years-Building-Animal-Sanctuary/dp/0932334679
tHIS ONE WAS ALSO.bEAVERSPRITE WAS WRITTEN BY THE OWNER OF THE REFUGE BEFORE IT WAS A REFUGE.tHE fIRST BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY HER FRIEND.BEAVER WERE AT THE REFUGE WHEN THEY HAD BEEN EXTIRPATED FROM EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE STATE(I just seen the caps lock was on,sorry) Both are good books.Hope Sawyer married a Turk hence the weird last name of Buyukimichi. Local folks down here used to call her the Pie lady.Don't know why.She used to hire teenagers with walkie talkies to patrol her refuge during hunting season and they would notify her of hunters whom she hated with a passion.She would fly to the scene with shotgun in hand to confront the violators.
This book and one more were written about the refuge.
http://www.amazon.com/Beaversprite-Years-Building-Animal-Sanctuary/dp/0932334679
tHIS ONE WAS ALSO.bEAVERSPRITE WAS WRITTEN BY THE OWNER OF THE REFUGE BEFORE IT WAS A REFUGE.tHE fIRST BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY HER FRIEND.BEAVER WERE AT THE REFUGE WHEN THEY HAD BEEN EXTIRPATED FROM EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE STATE(I just seen the caps lock was on,sorry) Both are good books.Hope Sawyer married a Turk hence the weird last name of Buyukimichi. Local folks down here used to call her the Pie lady.Don't know why.She used to hire teenagers with walkie talkies to patrol her refuge during hunting season and they would notify her of hunters whom she hated with a passion.She would fly to the scene with shotgun in hand to confront the violators.
I don't think Hope is among us anymore.It was known when she was in charge that you could visit the refuge but to never let any pro hunting opinions surface or you would be escorted off the property
This place has been discussed a few times here. I have driven past many times but never gone in.
https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/search/4964307/?q=unexpected+refuge&o=date
https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/search/4964307/?q=unexpected+refuge&o=date
My daughter and her classmates on occasion volunteered at the refuge. Many local residents had close ties with the director, Sarah Summerville, who recently handed over that position to Veronica van Hof.
Unexpected’s topography is complex. Its wonderful biodiversity can be attributed to the site’s high geodiversity. Unexpected is also a location of scientific significance. Numerous papers were published on Unexpected’s periglacial features, microtektites, and nanodiamonds. Most of the studied exposures have now been mined away for gravel, fill, and baseball infield mix, but not before hundreds of geology buffs from around the world visited here on various excursions. Active mining provided a unique opportunity to follow complex ground structures in 3-d helping to understand process in feature geomorphology.
Beaver range into the arctic, so it would not be surprising if the Unexpected population has ancient (Pleistocene?) roots.
S-M
Daughter and classmate painting the outhouse in 2007.
Daughter, classmate, and S. Summerville in 2007.
Unexpected’s topography is complex. Its wonderful biodiversity can be attributed to the site’s high geodiversity. Unexpected is also a location of scientific significance. Numerous papers were published on Unexpected’s periglacial features, microtektites, and nanodiamonds. Most of the studied exposures have now been mined away for gravel, fill, and baseball infield mix, but not before hundreds of geology buffs from around the world visited here on various excursions. Active mining provided a unique opportunity to follow complex ground structures in 3-d helping to understand process in feature geomorphology.
A small but important international gathering of palaeocryosol (paleogelisol in US) experts
looking at nondiastrophic thermokarst involutions and a sand-wedge cast.
All agreed to a cold, nonglacial (periglacial) interpretation – past permafrost.
looking at nondiastrophic thermokarst involutions and a sand-wedge cast.
All agreed to a cold, nonglacial (periglacial) interpretation – past permafrost.
Demitroff M, Nelson FE, Newell WL. 2006. “Relicts of the Late Pleistocene in the New Jersey Pinelands.” United States
Permafrost Association Field Trip, in association with the World Congress of Soil Science, Philadelphia. July 12.
Permafrost Association Field Trip, in association with the World Congress of Soil Science, Philadelphia. July 12.
Beaver range into the arctic, so it would not be surprising if the Unexpected population has ancient (Pleistocene?) roots.
S-M
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Wow. Current administration is 100% Vegan, according to the "Who we are" section of the website..
If I visited there I would be in trouble. I would probably smell like deer and geese to them.
If I visited there I would be in trouble. I would probably smell like deer and geese to them.