Recent content by Pete

Mike is the Oakland Recreation Commissioner, and the head of the committee that oversees Great Oak Park. I'm pretty sure that Rich worked with him and the park committee when he was still the EJTU conservation guy.... I saw Rich there during one of the first clean-ups. They appeared to be...

When I started this topic in April, I made a similar post in the "Great Oak Park, Oakland NJ" Facebook group. Much to my surprise, it got deleted. At the time I suspected the post might merely be considered premature. I hope you guys are keeping...

There's a short article about the on-site EJTU conservation committee meeting, in the June 2025 issue of "Riffles". https://mcusercontent.com/5c2ebc93f7cdb38ee1f0eb32b/files/c15d43d4-aae0-6d41-ff51-73bf4290e8e6/June_2025_Riffles.pdf See page 3. IMHO: This brook shouldn't be used as a fishing...

One of my pet peeves while browsing a store is a "hovering" sales clerk. I'm sure they're just trying to help, but If I need help finding something, or want to try a rod, I'll ask for it.

Rusty: The last time I looked, there was a fake waterfall just upstream from the town property. To me it looks impassable by YOY trout. Do you know if the landowner was approached about allowing it to be removed?

Greg; I remember Lemmerman's farm, but Abma's was so much closer that we seldom went there. One of my High School classmates was named Lemmerman, possibly his daughter. I can remember hunters walking through our back yard, but most of my classmates got their first deer on Campgaw Mountain. I got...

Greg: As I recall, I was in my 20s. Unless you're well over 60, it was probably way before your time. It was a warm water brook back then. Besides the Franklin Lake, just about every tributary had a top release dam.... The rumor was that they stocked it as a decoy, and didn't patrol it, to keep...

Greg: Most of the world, and the map makers, call it "Pond Brook" (without the "Little"). Oakland has to be different, so they honored a former prominent family by calling the portion downstream from 208/287 Allerman Brook . Yes, I remember the filling station. Back in the old days, when Pond...

Greg: My info may be outdated, but there's Stag (aka Clove) Brook, Havemeyer Brook, an unnamed brook associated with Lakes Tamarack & Todd, possibly some parts of Fox brook, and likely a few more that haven't been inventoried. Even streams that have been warmed by top release dams, might have...

Greg: It runs along Long Hill Road, and under Ramapo Valley Road, then runs through Great Oak Park into the Ramapo. (depending on where you live, you may know Long Hill Road, as Franklin Lakes Road, or Sicomac Avenue). Yes, one of it's sources is in (or near) a sandpit. Rusty: Except for the...

As read it, they weren't promoting the project, they were announcing the meeting.

The April issue of the EJTU newsletter, mentions a potential stream restoration of one of Oakland's TP trout nurseries. "Trout Scapes" was mentioned. See the last paragraphs of "Conservation Notes"...

We finally get an actual post, and it turns out to be SPAM.

Yes, the Ramapo generally gets a fall stocking. It can be quite productive before the water temperature makes them sluggish (when you can't feel your feet). It's been my experience that after the spring stocking, (depending on the weather), the fish survive until late June or early July. (I...

Item on the agenda for the Oakland Borough Council meeting on 11/26/2024: