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Wednesday Wanderings: Harris Conservation Area

This month, I’m excited to visit Harris Conservation Area, one of the quieter, lesser-known Public Conservation Areas, to focus on a quieter, lesser-appreciated species: bats.

Harris Conservation Area is located at 105 Bloody Hollow Road in Austerlitz. If you’re using GPS, please be aware that there are two Bloody Hollow Roads in proximity, and you’ll want to make sure you’re heading to the intersection with Stonewall Road. The parking lot for this site is rather small, so we do not recommend it for group outings or large gatherings.

After you locate the parking lot, take a moment to reflect on the land you’re about to enjoy. Public Conservation Areas are located on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. This land is near the homelands of other Indigenous peoples and First Nations, including the Schaghticoke First Nations. Indigenous peoples continue efforts to steward the land today.

Before you leave the lot, we recommend texting 518.525.3252 with the phrase “harrismap” to get a copy of the trail map. You can also download a guided audio tour from the free TravelStorys app.

Harris is home to great bat habitat: the forest is relatively open, there are many woodland pools and a small pond that attracts many insects for the bats to chow on, and there are plenty of rocky cliffs and outcroppings for the bats to nest in. Most bats mate in late summer and early fall, so please be sure to stay on the trails in order to avoid disturbing them. Humans are a major spreader of white nose disease, which is having catastrophic impacts on bat populations throughout the world. Spores for white nose disease can last a long time on clothing and…

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3 stars from each of South Jersey’s five leagues in boys soccer

Olympic Conference:

3. Cherry Hill East’s Adam Blumenthal: had a goal and an assist in the “Melograna Cup” game. Scored again in a 2-1 win over Burlington Township.

2. Cherokee’s Brandon Michael: three goals in his last two games, including a late winner in a 3-2 win over Lenape.

1. Washington Township’s Tyler Gryckiewicz: a driving force behind the team’s current eight-game win streak – the center back who’s keyed the defense through seven shutouts this season.

Burlington County Scholastic League:

3. Delran’s Nik Grello: two goals and and two assists in a bounce-back week for the Bears, who beat Burlington Township and won a tight game against Moorestown.

2. Rancocas Valley’s Jamie King: assisted on the tying goal and scored the winner in the Red Devils’ win over Salesianum of Delaware – added his second goal of the season in a win over Holy Cross.

1. Westampton Tech’s Ever Maradaiga: scored four goals against Maple Shade and added five against Medford Tech to bring his season total to 29.

Colonial Conference:

3. Gateway’s John DelOrbe: he’s been a rock between the sticks asthe Gators shut out four straight opponents, including an eye-opening win over a solid Woodstown squad.

2. Sterling’s Joey Lomas: but he’ll insist this is a team award; the Silver Knight’s streak of shutouts is now at 13 – a club record.

1. Haddonfield’s Christian Ball: two goals against West Deptford, two assists against Schlalick, as Haddonfield knocked two teams from the ranks of the undefeated, two days apart.

Cape-Atlantic League:

3. Oakcrest’s Jack O’Brien: has six goals this season, including a pair on Friday, when the Falcons’ avenged a 6-1 early season loss by beating Ocean City, 2-1.

2. Hammonton’s Gavin West: has nine goals this season; one came in a 2-1 win over Middle Township Saturday in their Cape-Atlantic League Tournament semifinal.

1. Egg Harbor Township’s Dominic Talvacchio: “Nooch has…

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Chesapeake Bay 2021 Young-of-Year Survey Results Announced

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced results of this year’s juvenile striped bass survey, which tracks the reproductive success of the iconic fish in the Chesapeake Bay. The 2021 young-of-year index is 3.2 which is slightly higher than last year but still below the long-term average of 11.4.

The coastal striped bass population has decreased in size but is still capable of strong reproduction with the right environmental conditions. Variable spawning success is a well-known characteristic of the species. The index is slightly higher than 2020 but consecutive below-average indices are a concern, and biologists continue to examine factors that might limit spawning success. 

Atlantic Coast states enacted responsible conservation measures in recent years to reduce harvest and protect striped bass during spawning season. Maryland will work with other states in the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to develop additional measures to enhance the striped bass population through the Atlantic striped bass fishery management plan.

The Department of Natural Resources has monitored the annual reproductive success of striped bass in Maryland’s portion of Chesapeake Bay since 1954. Photo by Stephen Badger, Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Other noteworthy observations of the survey were increased numbers of Atlantic menhaden in the Choptank River and healthy reproduction of American shad in the Potomac River. The survey also documented the reproduction of invasive blue catfish in the upper Chesapeake Bay for the first time.

Twenty-two survey sites are located in four major spawning areas: the Choptank, Nanticoke, and Potomac rivers, and the Upper Chesapeake Bay. Biologists visit each site three times per summer, collecting fish with two sweeps of a 100-foot beach seine net. The index represents…

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When the next full moon falls, and the full list of moon dates for 2021

The full moon has been shrouded in folklore and mystique for millennia, inspiring everything from religious festivals to horror films and outlandish doomsday conspiracy theories.

Each lunar cycle lasts just over 29.5 days, which means that the full moon usually falls on a slightly different date each month and sometimes more than once (known as a “blue moon”).

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Hunter’s moon: Why full moon name meanings entered pop culture, even though there’s zero science behind them

Here’s the full calendar of full moons falling in 2021, along with all you need to know about the origins of different moon names and phenomena such as the “Supermoon” and “Blood Moon”.

When are the full moons in 2021?

Here are all the full moon dates for 2021:

  • 28 January
  • 27 February
  • 28 March
  • 27 April
  • 26 May
  • 24 June
  • 24 July
  • 22 August
  • 21 September
  • 20 October
  • 19 November
  • 19 December

TOPSHOT - People watch the Strawberry Moon, the full moon of the month of June, rise over the ocean on Narrawallee Beach, near Mollymook on the South Coast of New South Wales on June 6, 2020. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)Full moons have been shrouded in folklore and mystique for millennia (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

What are the full moon names?

The majority of pre-modern calendars used the moon as the basis for the names of their months, a convention ended by the introduction of the solar Julian and Gregorian calendars.

In modern times, new names for the full moons – and their purported meanings – have infiltrated pop culture, generally attributed to Native American tribes.

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How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in, of All Places, Rural Indiana

As the caravan arrived, Miller gave the agents a full tour. He took them into the basement, where Archer saw the collection he’d been imagining for months. It made him dizzy. Then they entered the other buildings on the property. They started finding boxes of artifacts that appeared to have been sitting around for decades. Some were covered in dirt, others infested with mice, rats, insects, feces.

Then Miller took them into a locked room underneath the white farmhouse. Archer saw a brown shopping bag. Inside were eight skulls. Three more sat on a shelf. They found a garbage bag full of bones, and as they looked inside, a raccoon came flying out. Miller ushered them through a tunnel full of standing water that led to the Wyman Research building, where agents saw dozens of blue and green tote bins. They were full of human remains, many haphazardly thrown together. Some were infants and toddlers. On one shelf, a dozen skulls sat lined up, impacted with red soil in various states of repose. Miller said he’d excavated them five years earlier in New Mexico from an unmarked burial site. “He was so proud of those,” Carpenter said. It was his last dig, he told them. Carpenter noticed Miller only had the skulls and asked where the bodies were. We left those there, Miller said.

In the barn, agents found more bags of bones and skulls, some that had sat there for 50 years, never opened. Inside the main residence, in a basement closet, were two dozen more skulls on shelves, some with arrowheads sticking out of them. They also found a skeleton in a display case Miller said was Crazy Horse, the Lakota Native American who was buried in an unknown location. “He didn’t want anyone touching it,” Carpenter said. “It would…

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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia receives remains of missing Saudi national found in Iraq

Today, under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the remains of a Saudi national who went missing during the 1990-1991 Gulf War were handed over by the State of Kuwait to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) at Kuwait International Airport.

After 30 years of painful uncertainty, the family of the missing Saudi national now has clarity on the fate of their loved one. Throughout this time, the KSA authorities have maintained the case on their missing persons list. The human remains were found in March 2019 at a burial site in Iraq’s Samawa District, with the joint efforts of Iraqi and Kuwaiti authorities, assisted by experts from the ICRC within the framework of the Tripartite Commission Mechanism.

The identification of the remains and its subsequent handover to KSA was conducted following conclusive DNA analysis, matching with Kuwait’s database of prisoners of war and missing persons and third-country nationals, led by the General Department of Forensic Evidence in the Ministry of Interior in the State of Kuwait.

The Tripartite Commission and its Technical Sub-Committee were set up in 1991 and 1994 respectively, to help ascertain the fate of people missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War. They are chaired by the ICRC and composed of representatives of the Republic of Iraq, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of France. In 2014, the UNAMI joined, as an observer.

The members of the Tripartite Commission are committed to upholding the right of families to receive answers about the fate of their missing loved ones. To this end, the Commission places all necessary efforts in the search and…

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BITS & BYTES: Mountainside treatment center scholarships; Matthew Dicks keynote; First Friday Artswalk; BCHS receives grant; new building for WCMA

Mountainside treatment center participates in Release Recovery scholarship fund

CANAAN, Conn. — During National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, Mountainside treatment center is partnering with Release Recovery Foundation to provide scholarships to women battling substance use disorders. The aim of these scholarships is to offer life-saving inpatient treatment services to individuals struggling with alcohol and drug addiction who are not able to afford medical and clinical care otherwise.

Release Recovery Foundation, co-founded by “Bachelorette Season 16” winner Zac Clark and Justin Gurland, is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring all who are ready and willing to seek professional treatment are able, despite the financial barriers they may face.

Women face additional barriers, both emotional and societal, when seeking treatment. Childcare challenges, the high cultural standards placed on women as caregivers, and the stigma of addiction can all contribute to a perfect storm in which women feel they cannot leave home to address their disorder. This Release Recovery Foundation Scholarship was created to help women overcome these obstacles and embrace their own healing.

“Everyone has been impacted by COVID-19, but shortly after the pandemic began, we saw a noticeable decrease in women enrolling in detox and residential treatment,” said Andre Basso, CEO at Mountainside. “No one should have to sacrifice their own healing, for financial reasons or otherwise.”

For many women without an alcohol use disorder, COVID-19 stressors have intensified their drinking during the pandemic. A September 2020 study by RAND Corporation showed that heavy alcohol consumption among female drinkers increased 41 percent from 2019 to 2020. Couple this with the 30 percent surge in drug overdose deaths last year, and widespread support has never been more urgently needed.

The Release Recovery Scholarship will cover inpatient stays in Mountainside’s Detox and Residential programs. The treatment center will…

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Obituaries in Westampton, NJ | Burlington County Times

Robert John “Chief” “Keystone” Happe

Cinnaminson – Robert John Happe “Happe”, “Chief,” “Keystone” from Cinnaminson passed away early on the morning of October 16, 2021 at the age of 42. He was surrounded by his loving family as he ended his very tough and courageous battle with Covid.

Happe was born in Ewing on December 7, 1978 where his love for the NY Giants started, but spent his childhood years in Mt. Laurel. He graduated from Lenape HS and started his career in the Warehouse at Tropicana Corp. He left there to follow in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps to work at PSEG. He quickly earned the respect and trust of his peers first as a machinist and then as an underground lineman. For the last fifteen years he has made his co-workers laugh at his antics and jokes. Happe is known for his wit and very strong sense of humor. Every time you were in his presence he surely made you laugh and you’d leave with a smile. Happe loved hanging out in his garage and having outside fires; his fire pit was the envy of the Georgian Dr. family. Happe was loved by many and has left behind many heartbroken and grieving family, friends, and neighbors.

Rob was predeceased by his grandparents Robert and Jean Happe, John and Mary Helmstetter, Uncle George Happe and his Aunt Kathy Ferrera. He is survived by his loving fiancée, Nicole Bruno, her daughter Gianna and his fav friend Mini “Poots,” His adoring parents, Margaret (Maggie) and Len, his sister Caitlin who cherished and idolized her big brother, his MIL Donna Bruno and BIL John Bruno. He is also survived by his Uncles, Jack Helmstetter ( Joyce) and Joe McGowan ( Donna), and his Aunts, Maureen Williams ( Lee ), MaryBeth Helmstetter, Carol Happe Mannino( Paul),…

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Columbus woman hiking Mohican State Park dies after collision with falling tree branch

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