Brian Drinkwater's Blog

Atlantic Highlands Mayor Fred Rast officially opened the Bayshore Trail at a ribbon cutting ceremony held in conjunction with the towns Earth Day activities, on Saturday April 25th at the trail’s opening at the eastern end of the Atlantic Highlands Municipal Harbor.

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     To mark the beginning of Earth Week, Congressman Frank Pallone made a visit to the Bayshore Waterfront park in the Port Monmouth section of Middletown on Sunday, April 19, to host the release of a rehabilitated peregrine falcon back into the wild as well as to hold a round table discussion on global warming and the need for natural resource funding.  Read more »

You may have heard this refrain a month or so ago "so much for global warming". I heard it more then once, more then twice. A frigid 2 week stretch in January, complete with freezing rivers, and ice boats. Pictures on the internet, showing an Alaskan thermometer reading -65. Now that's cold. Perhaps climate change isn't as bound in fact as some scientists will have us believe. Perhaps global warming is a fraud, just as Rush Limbaugh says. Look there's snow in Vermont, a massive ice storm in Kentucky.  Read more »

Now this hardly a scientific study, I'm no scientist, I have no proven data. This is strictly observational, theoretical. But as a frequent hiker, and sometime mountain biker, I am pretty familiar with Hartshorne woods. And mud, especially mud like this, deep and thick, high viscosity mud, the kind that could take a shoe off, is rare, and short lived.  Read more »