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Finding friends who share your passion for the outdoors is no easy task- particularly for some of us unfortunate souls who spend our days working and living within the confines of America's largest cities. This includes yours truly, and I am hoping some of you. So, how is it we can meet more like-minded people such as ourselves? I learned a few years ago from one of my own friends that the internet is a perfect place for this. In particular, the hunting forums that dot many of the larger websites. Here you will find a vast array of folks who like to do exactly what you do: hunt, hunt, and hunt some more. The great thing is many of them are your neighbors. And after several months of getting to know some of the other members on these forums, doors can suddenly open and you'll be on yet one more adventure, weapon in hand, tales by a fire, chasing a variety of North America's big game in places you only dreamed about.On top of all this, these forums spout a great deal of people with a great deal of knowledge to be had by any who ask. They have it all, from archery technical enthusiasts right down to do-it-yourself public land hunters.
This time of year, one of my personal forum favorites is the Bowhunting.com Shed Hunting Contest that is held here, on this website. Here, teams are formed from forum members who are scattered all across the U.S. to share in one common goal- to see which team can pluck from the earth the greatest amount of shed antlers. In the process, and between the short bouts of gentle ribbing that exists between forum friends, one can learn a great deal from veteran shed hunters like our very own, Tim Freund- more commonly referred to as TJF (his forum name).Tim is a well-known whitetail fanatic amongst our growing forum pages. Each year he piles up as many as 70 sheds while searching within a 20 mile radius of his North Dakota home. In between Tim's daily duties on a large grain farm he works for, he puts in about 4 hours of walking on each hunt- often traveling several miles along cut corn and bean fields where whitetail dig feverishly through the snow depths in search of food. And it's this digging by some of the bucks that begins to knock loose antlers, leaving them ready for any able-bodied hunter to collect. "I have four or five quick check areas where I can get in and out without pushing the deer this time of year. These areas are usually corn or soybean fields. Scout to see where the deer herd up in different areas and look in those feeding areas first", states Tim.
Armed with a good pair of binoculars, Tim searches for the sharp edges of an antler rather than concentrating on the entire thing. He looks for the tines or the curve of the main beam, both of which he'll tell anyone are the easiest features to pick out.
HOT food sources where deer gather in great numbers are the best areas to hit in the first few weeks of shed antler hunting. They allow you to get in without pushing the deer.
Bowhunting.Com forum member, Tim Freund, sits with a few of his finds after a quick walk over a good food source in early February.
"Typically", Tim continues, "in an early harsh winter, I tend to see 3.5 and older bucks shed the earliest. In normal winters I still tend to see older bucks shed first. Milder winters have us seeing all ages". His reasoning, "Early harsh winters have the older bucks still run down from rut. They weren't able to get back the fat reserves they lost during that time. Normal winters have them in better shape, but then they're more in tune to the other factors involved with casting antlers."
Tim believes 3.5 year old bucks are often the first to shed after being worn out from the heavy stress periods of the rut.
And this is just a small glimpse into what lies beyond this blog, in the forum section of this website. A great deal of knowledgeable hunters always ready and awaiting chances to teach and learn more of their craft. Picking a member like Tim's brain on what to look for and to bring while shed hunting can help even the most veteran antler hunter find a few extra pieces of late winter bone. This is a place where friendships are forged, opportunities are gained, experience is won, and it can all be YOURS by simply signing-up. Best of all- it's totally free. We're looking for hunters who enjoy the outdoor world as much as we do. All are welcome.Become a part of something and meet more hunters- join our forums today!
We know it's a little early to start talking shed antler hunting. After all, some states still have an open deer season. But for New York state hunter, Corey Wiktor, his season is not ending, it's just beginning!
Check these MONSTER sheds out! Wiktor just recently picked these 2 bones from the current winter wonderland of western New York. Each side estimated near or at 100 inches!
The pictures don't relate the true size of the shed antlers. A few of our staffers here at Bowhunting.Com have an estimated the score of nearly 225"! This estimated scoring includes an 18" spread credit given by us. Although it is likely to have been greater than that!
If our scoring measurement of 215-225" GROSS and around 210-220" NET are accurate, this buck just may be a new world record typical whitetail! It would surpass Milo Hanson's 1993 score of 213 5/8", from Saskatchewan. If taken with a bow, it may crush the archery world typical record Mel Johnson buck from Illinois in 1965 of 204 4/8".
Congratulations to hunter Corey Wiktor on the finds of a lifetime. There is no doubt you will be after this buck come autumn of 2010. Whatever the score! Stay tuned right here at Bowhunting.Com, there could be a NEW world record out of an unlikely place next season. We'll keep our fingers crossed Corey!
Trail camera setups can be as complicated or simplistic as you choose to make them. I personally stay on the simplistic side of things as I am not trying to "pattern" bucks with their use, but rather get a better look at them after I locate a buck I am interested in from summer glassing. For me it all starts in the summer.... I will spend countless hours and evenings glassing the areas I hunt looking for big whitetail bucks. Once I locate some bucks of interest I move in and set up cameras and leave them up anywhere from two weeks to a month on the property.
Leaving cameras up and checking them over and over again all summer is pointless to me. Once I get a better look at the buck(s) in question, I know right away if he is an animal I am interested in or not. Once my curiosity is satisfied I pull the cameras not to return with them again, unless a new buck is found on that land I need a better look at. I err to the side of caution by only placing them on field edges or just into the timber. Deer are used to activity in these areas so you can get away with a little bit of human scent around these setups from your trips in and out. If you are trying to setup trail cameras on their travel routes or bedding areas I feel you are setting your self up for early season failure. With my personal focus on early season success, I do not want to tip anymore of the odds in the whitetails favor.
I used summer glassing to locate this buck this past July. I then moved in and set my DLC Covert II Assassin trail camera up for 2 weeks and got the photos I was looking for. He turned out to be the largest buck I located on land I can hunt.
October 17th found me in a particular stand for the first time this year with a strong, and very rare for my area NE wind. I was setup just outside of his bedding area (beds located during shed season) and was able to capitalize on my preseason efforts in a big way! Chances are I may not have been setup in that area had I not known this guy was in there.
If you do your summertime homework by locating the bucks, move in and setup the trail cameras on their food source, pull the cameras out after you get the info you need and save those bedding area stand locations for the perfect wind and conditions I bet you will have a better shot at success this fall.
No longer just an ordinary weekend hobby, modern bowhunting can rely on the success of how you spend your off-season days just as much as your in-season days. This includes food plots, scouting, and even shed hunting.
Bowhunting.Com forum members talk below on the how's and why's of shed hunting and how they can lead you to better deer hunting results or just more days in the field.
Troy Pottenger (Shed); An Idaho native and shed hunter of more than 27 years, Troy hunts some of the hardest back-country terrain for mature whitetail bucks and trophy elk. While his yearly shed counts can greatly fluctuate, Troy found 98 or 99 shed antlers in 2007!
Troy Pottenger, shed hunting some of Idaho's toughest terrain.
When asked if shed hunting ever leads to the success of taking a whitetail, Troy's response was simply absolutely. Troy has killed seven whitetail bucks over the years that he has the sheds of, concluding that the keys to his success are locating a buck's core living area starting with shed hunting. In fact, two of Troy's seven buck kills have been less than 300 yards from where one or more of that buck's sheds have been found. The remaining whitetail bucks were taken all within 1 mile.
Troy with a matched shed antler set off the same whitetail buck he would eventually take, seen here, in the background.
In mountain country, continues Troy, without a heavy snowstorm early on into winter the bucks will still be in their usual core living areas. "Big mature bucks lock into a living pattern and into a comfort zone, find their big sheds in this country and you can almost guarantee he will be within a square mile," states Troy.
Troy's shedding experiences have left him with these invaluable truths;
- Find the food bucks are feeding on during the shed dropping phases and you'll find the bone. - Determination. Wearing out the boot leather when you're into a place shed antlers should be. Grid it like a type-writer. - Over time, your eyes will begin to train themselves on what they're looking for. Soon you will be seeking shed parts, not whole shed antlers.
Above; Troy sits with a really nice 5 point side.
Lance Sherman (Wiaxle); The Wisconsin native has been shed hunting for the better part of the last 15 years, however, his first several years were full of broken hunts as he was still learning his shed skills. Lance now averages around 30 per year, with this year (2009) being his best year ever at 32 with still some time left on the clock before the spring green up.
Lance, at home, shows off his second biggest matched shed antler set that he's ever found.
Lance's greatest key to his success is the all too familiar argument; if you have the food then you will have the bucks. For the last couple years, Lance has left corn up for the winter, pulling in a lot of the deer from the surrounding area. And subsequently, the whitetail bucks too. "The last two years we have found 60+ each year, previously the best we had done is maybe 30, the corn has made a world of difference," admires Lance.
Lance argues these 9 tips every shed hunter should follow.
- Get out and walk! We are finding sheds in areas we have been through dozens of times through the course of the season. Walk! - Bedding areas and travels corridors from the bedding area to food sources are often the best areas to find antlers. - Southern exposures, areas where deer can get in some sun. - Train your eyes to see the antlers (best way take a horn with you and throw it, and try to find it) think about finding the little ones, if you can find those, the big ones are easy. - Go over the same area from different angles. - Check areas that you see deer during the hunting season. - Go slow. - Watch your feet. - Check out everything, and then repeat!
Lance's dad, pictured above, poses with one of several whitetail bucks the Sherman family have found sheds from over the years.
Dan Richardson (BloodCrick); The 43 year old Indiana resident has been shed hunting his home state for nearly 20 years. Dan believes that finding the shed is just icing on the cake; the real reason for his shed hunts is in the scouting that is performed while out in the woods this time of the year. Each year Dan averages more than 50 hours of shed hunting to his regular scouting walks.
Dan Richardson poses above with his first matched set of the 2009 shed hunting year.
Most of the ground Dan hunts is rough and rugged strip mine country. Dan even jokes, "Some of it is almost impossible to hunt without feeling like your going to die!"
Although Dan has not been lucky enough to take a whitetail buck that he has found the sheds from, he has been fortunate enough to create many stories with them, along with the use of his trailcamera. Certainly invaluable information when hunting these mature bucks, the combination of a photo and an antler can be.
Nicknamed "the corkscrew buck", Dan has several trailcamera pictures and sheds off this particular whitetail.
Dan believes the secrets to his success when finding antlers are;
- Putting on the miles! - Looking between good bedding areas and solid food sources. - Putting on the miles!
It becomes clear while reading the above statements what makes a shed hunter so successful. With determination, understanding certain whitetail behaviors and a great amount of used shoe leather, these 3 individuals walk more than 300 hours into the deer woods each spring! With all of these extra hours come valuable miles, of which, some priceless information can come from.
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Chapter One. 09/17/2008 Set up on the North end of a standing corn field facing South back toward the field my game camera snapped a series of 24 photos on September 17th, 2008 starting at 11:02 PM and ending at 11:25 PM. This was my first "encounter" with the buck that I have come to know as "The 4 Beam Buck". I never got another picture of him other than from this series, even while running two cameras on the property. I hoped to catch him on my other camera as it takes much nicer photos but I had no such luck.
Two photos from that night. Chapter Two. 11/16/2008 November 16th, 2008 found me sitting in a lock on that has been kind to me over the years. Not long after first light I can hear it.... The tell tale sound of chasing. A yearling buck ran a doe right underneath my stand with a big buck and numerous younger bucks lagging behind. I at first did not get a good look at the "big buck" because so many deer were converging on my location at once. I didn't want to get caught glassing any of them and have a good buck come in range with my attention else where. I was then able to start glassing the bucks I went from dink to dink to respectable 2.5 year olds than BAM.... It's the "4 Beam Buck"! It was an outstanding experience watching all the chasing and dominance displays he put on over the next couple hours fending off these bucks from courting his bedded doe. Once all of the activity slowed and I was able to look around, I had seven bucks and one doe all within 60 yards of my setup. The encounter wasn't meant to turn into a big buck and "hero" photos though as they left my area for good a few hours after they arrived. Chapter Three. 03/13/2008 Over 40 hours into my Ohio shed season I had yet to find a shed antler. I found some in IL and OK, but just couldn't get on any here at home. Around 4:00 PM I put an end to the shed-less streak by picking up a yearling shed. It sure felt good to finally pick one up. A couple hours later found me in an area I would not have expected to find a shed. It is an area that is full of young maple trees with absolutely no ground cover or browse to speak of.... Just tall skinny maple trees. I was griding the area out East-West then back West-East. I was about 3/4's through the area when I see the curl of a main beam sticking up 30 feet ahead.... I walk up to see the right side of the "4 Beam Buck"! Darkness fell fast and I was not able to locate the other side. I will be back out there in the morning trying my best to find the other side.
As it lied when I found it.
Another view once I got home.
I hope to add a couple more chapters to this story over this spring / summer going into next fall. Even if this story doesn't end with the whitetail and I making a trip to my taxidermist, I have throughly enjoyed the ride thus far.
Shed antler hunting can sometimes best be described as a search for a needle in a haystack, a really big haystack! We all try it, or make our best attempts to, with sometimes great and/or limited success. But why? Why are some shed hunters so very successful at this new found pastime and others so, dare we say it, inept? Perhaps ill-informed is a better way to describe those that struggle finding these treasures which shed from our favorite game species every year.
Shed hunting has become extremely popular over the past decade, and rightfully so, as it helps further our cultural obsession to know and understand more about the very game we hunt. Sometimes even to the point of just a particular animal that we desire. It can help us become better woodsman, better friends, and even better stewards of the land. Shed hunting today is part of the 365 day modern hunters' arsenal.
Where to look:
Finding a shed antler is not always about getting out to just any piece of ground. It's a numbers game, and you'll have better odds of picking 1 or 2 up if you are looking where larger populations of bucks have spent the late winter or early spring.
Start with the food.
The preferred food sources, and nearby them, are where you are likely to find the most sheds this or any season. These food sources include corn, hay, bean, even milo fields. Where snowfall is less of a factor or these food sources are rare, solid acorn mast and/or browse within the woods can often produce a few whitetail sheds for the hunter. It is important to understand that not all food sources are created equally. Factors include adequate bedding proximity and, like hunting, sometimes human and/or other predator pressures.
The food sources that are closest to good winter bedding areas are often best. They must offer some sort of visual protection for the whitetail, a place to get out of the wind, and often a place in which the suns rays can hammer on throughout most of the day. Pay special attention to deadfalls and/or hillsides that face the southern or eastern skies as they will see much more of the shortened day's sun. In big swamp country, small islands within cattails and the outside edges are often the best place to look for a bedded buck in winter's months. Same goes for his sheds.
A popular way to seek out which food sources are holding the greatest numbers of deer is through visual scouting. Many shed hunters simply drive around much of late winter searching and scanning over nearby fields. Armed with a good pair of binoculars, these shed hunters will note which fields are seeing the most amount of deer traffic, and more importantly, buck traffic. It's within these fields that most of these shed hunters will start their hunt for shed antlers within the following weeks.
Where food sources are limited or deer populations are high, whitetail sheds like the one pictured above, can often be found in or on the edges of CRP fields.
What to look for:
Seasoned shed hunters know that looking first for color is a very deceiving practice while searching for shed antlers. Mainly because shed antlers can have so many different hues ranging from darker browns, into yellows, and a frosty white. These colors can hide very effectively in fields of cut corn or shaded downfalls, places where these antlers are so often found.
Most shed hunters agree that it's best to search for the sharp curves or points of a shed. Keeping ones vision out away from you between 5 and 20 yards while walking, constantly reminding yourself what you are looking for. This is important while shed hunting since so many of us are animal hunters as well. Often, a want to look around for other deer sign like scrapes or rubs can be an antler seeker's worst enemy.
Below you will find a small selection of "as they lay" pictures of whitetail antlers. These pictures are a perfect example of what you are looking for in your fields or woods. Notice the sharp points, and/or curves. They are noticeably different when compared with the grasses, leaves, and timber edges which surround them.
Pictured above, this antler was the only sharper object in a sea of dried CRP grasses.
A shed antler's tines sneak up through the snow.
On a overcast day in early February, this antler's sharp tines almost glow against a backdrop of leaves.
The sharp main beam and last tine of this antler can be hard to see on a sunny day where shadows play visual tricks on the shed hunter. Notice the "softer" edges of the surrounding flora. The antler is the only "hard" lined object in the picture above. Can you see it?
When to go shed hunting:
Certainly time restraints have great impact on any individual who is seeking a good day in the field shed hunting. However, certain weather conditions exist which can help or impair any antler seeker.
Extremely sunny days with high skies can be the most difficult days for a hike. These days cast heavy shadow into the woods and fields even, making it very difficult to spot antler tines from greater distances. Cloudy, overcast conditions are much more suitable for antler hunting. If you must go on a sunnier day, leave earlier and search just before the sun has risen high enough to cast a good shadow. Or search in the last couple hours of daylight when antlers begin to almost glow with the setting sun.
Conditions where rain has just fallen over several hours followed by grey skies are perhaps the shed hunters' best friend. These conditions often make the antler shine brightly in fields and woodlots. Antlers in these conditions can really stick out, sometimes being seen from 30 yards or more!
Even darker colored antlers can almost GLOW after sitting out in the rain for several hours. These wet conditions make for a shed antler hunters best friend.
What the shed antler can tell you.
Shed antlers are the fingerprints of a whitetail buck. Unlike the rub, the scrape, or a giant bed, a shed antler is specific to the animal that has left it there. It can help us determine a more accurate age, certain tendencies, and even particular patterns of a specific buck. Combined with modern trail camera pictures, these antlers can have a grave impact on discerning a particular whitetail's true home range, sometimes even his preferred bedding sites. In all, they can help us become a better, more understanding big game hunter.
Bowhunting.com staff and its readers are always interested in your take on shed antler hunting. Do you feel it can better help you as a hunter? And what, if any, tips can you give to fellow shed hunters in order for them to succeed more each day while seeking out this earthly treasure.
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i am using btrfs 2x 3TB raid 1, which will soon be 3x 3TB.
also happy to sacrifice some performance for checksumming and redundancy. remember that the default single disk options do duplicate metadata.
interestingly on the btrfs homepage https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page it claims that 3.7 had fsync speedups, and that 3.8 has many small performance improvements. is there some regression in 3.8 that has cancelled out the improvements?


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In other news... KWin devs are planning to add NVIDIA® PhysX® support to KWinOriginally Posted by phoronix
Phoronix: Compiz 0.9.2 Is Coming With Many New Changes
KDE's KWin developers haven't been the only ones busy, but those working on Compiz have been active too and are currently preparing for the Compiz 0.9.2 release, which will succeed the belated Compiz 0.9 release that occurred back in July...
In other news... KWin devs are planning to add NVIDIA® PhysX® support to KWinOriginally Posted by phoronix
Instead of adding more features, maybe some of the fundamental problems should be tackled (i.e. performance, tearing avoidance).
or maybe adding something useful, like dynamic tiling. That would be pretty nice.
I've never encountered performance issues in Compiz and I've used it on some pretty crummy hardware. As for tearing, I have encountered that but it's not been the fault of Compiz but rather video drivers lacking vsync and DRI2's redirected video lacking any syncing of it's own.
Agreed. I made one such suggestion recently but I have no idea how much, or how little, people actually read the Compiz forums. Compiz has some really useful plugins and some that could be more useful, if better implemented (Group and Tab, for instance) but that part of it's feature set portfolio hasn't seen much progress for several years now.
physix you say? so radeon users wont be able to use it, greets for close standards
Compiz has always been snappy on my computers.
The reason why I ended up switching away is that, although it has the best and smoothest 3d effects, it is simply not one of the best window managers out there. I find myself going back to KWin all the time, since it is simply very good at managing windows.
Performance in general isn't a big issue (except for slow hardware), but recently performance of some plugins regressed... for example, with newer (stable, i.e. 0.8.x) versions of Compiz, the "zoom" and "expo" plugins are very slow.
As for tearing, this is limited by the Composite protocol, which has no way to effectively work around it. You can configure Compiz to "mostly" vsync, but it's not working correctly in most cases, like video playback or regular X rendering.
This needs to be fixed at a lower level, but apparently nobody is really interested in it - it is really annoying! NVidia suggested an extension for providing sync primitives a while ago, but there was practically zero reaction.
Sadly, while Compiz has its share of problems, kwin and mutter are a lot worse in most aspects.


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The CMP implements, and is an exercise of, the powers granted to the Pinelands Commission by the 1979 New Jersey Pinelands Protection Act and the Federal National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978. The regulations and standards it contains are designed to promote orderly development of the Pinelands so as to preserve and protect the significant and unique natural, ecological, agricultural, archaeological, historical, scenic, cultural and recreational resources of the Pinelands.
A Million Acres
The Pinelands is a patchwork of pine oak forests, tea-colored streams and rivers, spacious farms, crossroad hamlets, and small towns stretched across southern New Jersey. In the country's early years it had been a place where fortunes were made from lumber, iron and glass. But the early industries died out, and as the state's major roads bypassed the area, the "Pine Barrens" gradually became known as a remote part of New Jersey abounding in local legends like the "Jersey Devil".By the end of the 1960's, as the full weight of postwar urban sprawl came to bear on other parts of New Jersey, the path of Pinelands history forked again. Would the Pinelands become the locale of grandiose development projects, such as a jetport and a city of a quarter million, or would the region's value come to be based on its open spaces, natural features, and traditional lifestyles, which uncontrolled development would damage or obliterate?
It took years of study and debate before the choice was made. But gradually the realization set in that the Pinelands was an environmental asset of national and international importance, deserving safeguards to divert the flow of growth from metropolitan Philadelphia, northern New Jersey, and New York. Nearby Atlantic City's casino gambling boom crystallized awareness of the need for Pinelands development controls.
Pinelands Legislation
The New Jersey Legislature, at Governor Byrne's request, supplemented the federal law by passing the Pinelands Protection Act in June, 1979. The Act affirmed the temporary limitations on development that the Governor had put into effect while a plan to protect the Pinelands was being created. It also established a requirement that county and municipal master plans and land use ordinances be brought into conformance with the Comprehensive Management Plan that the Commission was developing.
The boundaries of the Pinelands National Reserve and the Pinelands Area, as defined by the state legislation, differ somewhat. The Reserve, totaling 1.1 million acres, includes land east of the Garden State Parkway and to the south bordering Delaware Bay, which is omitted from the 938,000 acre state Pinelands Area. The two jurisdictions together cover all or parts of 56 municipalities spread across seven counties -- Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Ocean.
The state law makes another important distinction between the remote interior of the Pines and the surrounding portions. Development is to be highly regulated in the Preservation Area, which comprises approximately 39% of the Pinelands Area and encompasses the largest tracts of relatively unbroken forest and most of the economically vital berry industry. The larger surrounding area, known as the Protection Area, contains a mix of valuable environmental features, farmland, hamlets, subdivisions, and towns, making the Commission's task there more complex.
The Commission was originally given until August 8, 1980 to adopt the Plan, but the Legislature extended the time allowed to finish the Protection Area portion by four months. The Plan was thus adopted in two phases. The Preservation Area part was approved by the Commission on August 8, 1980 and took effect on September 23, 1980, following Governor Byrne's approval. The Protection Area Plan was adopted on November 21, 1980 and became effective under state law on January 14, 1981. This final version also constituted the Comprehensive Management Plan for the entire Pinelands National Reserve. It was approved by Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus on January 16, 1981 and was sent to Congress for the required 90 day review.
If the Pinelands had been an uninhabited wilderness under no pressure for development, it might have been feasible for the government to buy the entire area outright. But that was not the case in southern New Jersey in the 1980's. Because of its proximity to Philadelphia, New York, and Atlantic City, the Pinelands' perimeter was quickly becoming attractive real estate. The forested core was immune from that kind of development pressure for the time being, but it was also the bastion of the cranberry and blueberry farms, whose thriving operations the government had no reason to acquire. Making a wholesale government purchase even more impractical was the history of private land ownership in the Pines, with many families tracing their occupancy back a century or more. Then there are the large and small towns that dot the region from end to end. Although great swaths of the Pinelands have escaped the typical effects of 20th century progress, making them a refuge for scores of endangered plants and animals, the Pines are in no sense really wild. Another tactic besides outright purchase was needed to carry out the public desire to save this last great semi-wilderness in the northeast megalopolis.
The answer lay in the Commission's planning program. A precept that gave rise to the Commission was that the Pinelands could be protected primarily within the existing framework of governmental authority if a regional perspective could be attained. The Commission's essential tasks were to supply that perspective and create a means of translating it into local master plans and zoning codes.
Assuming that the Pinelands could not become a national park, it had to be decided which pieces of the whole ought to be preserved just as they were and which pieces could be allowed to change. The factors had to be weighed on a regional scale, not simply as they appeared when each municipality tried to consider its case alone. The state act furnished a starting point from which those judgments could be made by dividing the Pinelands into Preservation and Protection Areas. In calling for a Comprehensive Management Plan to be prepared, both the state and federal acts also specified the types of information that had to be assembled to justify more detailed decisions about future land use. So, as the Commission began to function at full speed, its first major effort was to collect and analyze that information.
All the resources of the Pinelands -- the vast and priceless water reservoir beneath the sandy soil, the forests, plants, animals, farms, historic sites, and the people who give the region its distinctive culture -- had to be studied and appraised. Experts studied the Cohansey and Kirkwood aquifers, which contain a potable water supply estimated at over 17 trillion gallons. They documented the 580 native plant species, including 54 classified as threatened or endangered, and the 299 kinds of birds, 91 fish, 59 reptiles and amphibians, and 39 mammals found in the Pinelands. They catalogued over 1,000 known prehistoric archaeological sites and the crumbled ruins of the vanished iron and glass industries. And they interviewed hundreds of Pinelands residents to find out what they valued most about the region and what they thought the future of the region should be.
Gradually the picture emerged of a Pinelands region that could logically be divided into eight areas of different land use capability. The delineation of these areas, and the allocation among them of mandatory and optional land uses subject to environmental standards, became a central feature of the Commission's Plan.
Management Areas
The heart of the Pines from an environmental point of view is the Preservation Area. Here one finds the pristine Pine Barrens rivers -- the Mullica, the Batsto, the Bass, Wading, and Oswego. Here are the unique forests of pygmy pines and oaks known as the East and West Plains. The ruins of long-deserted towns and factories poke through the underbrush amidst a maze of twisting, barely passable sand roads. The solemn gloom of cedar swamps gives way to the flowery brilliance of inland marshes and bogs. To save all this, the Plan created a Preservation Area District where conventional residential, commercial and industrial development is largely prohibited. In general, only new land uses compatible with the ecology of the central Pines are allowed. Examples of acceptable activities are forestry, cultivation of berries and native plants, and operation of low-intensity recreational facilities, such as canoe rental services and campgrounds designed for minimal impact on the landscape.
The Preservation Area District's approximately 295,000 acres (including acreage already protected in public holdings, such as Wharton and Brendan T. Byrne Lebanon State Forests) are immune from new residential development with one exception. Members of families that have lived in the Pinelands for at least 20 years are allowed to build houses for their own use on land they owned as of February 7, 1979 -- the day before Governor Byrne ordered the interim development controls. The lot has to be at least 3.2 acres to meet the Plan's water quality standard regulating ground water contamination from septic systems.
Although most of the Preservation Area is sufficiently undeveloped to be included in the Preservation Area District, some parts call for different treatment. They included existing villages like Chatsworth and Green Bank, the large berry farming complexes, and military bases. Three of the Plan's other land capability zones are designed to control land use in these areas.
The traditional communities of the Pinelands, from tiny rural settlements like Warren Grove to large towns like Hammonton, are just as much a part of the landscape as the plants and animals. The Plan designates these communities as either Pinelands Villages or Towns and allows traditional development under certain rules. There are 47 Villages in the Pinelands Area, including nine in the Preservation Area. The municipality in which a Village is located determines its boundary according to criteria listed in the Plan. The eight Pinelands Towns are Buena, on the southwestern Pinelands fringe in Atlantic County; Egg Harbor City, on the old highway between Atlantic City and Philadelphia; Hammonton, the hub of the Pinelands' fruit and vegetable region; Lakehurst, on the northern perimeter of the Pines; Whiting in Manchester Township, Ocean County; Tuckerton, end point of the old stage coach road from Philadelphia to the coast; Woodbine in Cape May County; and Wrightstown in Burlington County.
Few activities are as vital to the Pinelands as cranberry and blueberry farming. Bogs and fields are valuable economically as well as environmentally and aesthetically. Both cranberries and blueberries are native to the region, thriving in sandy soils with high water tables. New Jersey's cranberry production, which ranks third nationally, is carried out almost exclusively in the Preservation Area. With bogs that must be periodically flooded, cranberry farming is especially tied to the water supply. Growers normally attempt to match each acre of bog with ten acres of upstream woodland as a water source. The large, cultivated blueberry was first developed here by Elizabeth White, and the yearly crop is worth millions. New Jersey ranks second in blueberry production. To give the berry industry the degree of protection and encouragement it deserves, the Plan allows municipalities to designate Special Agricultural Production Areas in the Preservation Area. Land uses in these areas are limited to the cultivation of berries and other native plants, other environmentally compatible agricultural activities, housing for people with links to the Pinelands, and housing for agricultural employees.
With their huge tracts of vacant land, the Pinelands were an obvious place for the government to locate military bases and similar facilities. These installations now occupy about 47,000 acres, with 30,000 acres in the Preservation Area. The two major ones are Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and the Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center in Atlantic County. The Plan includes them in Military and Federal Installation Areas. New land uses are generally permitted if they are associated with the installation and in keeping with the Plan's development standards. Activities essential to national security are exempt from the Commission review.
Protection Area
The Commission's task in the Preservation Area was comparatively easy. The legislative mandate was clear and there was little opposition to the premise that significant new development there would be unwise. In the Protection Area, though, it was a different story. The Commission's assignment here was a juggling act from the start. Environmental and economic interests had to be considered. According to the 1979 Pinelands Protection Act, the Plan was to encourage development "in or adjacent to areas already utilized for such purposes" so growth pressures could be accommodated with a minimum of environmental damage. "Piecemeal and scattered" development was to be discouraged, and the "essential character of the existing Pinelands environment" was to be preserved and maintained.
Forest Areas
One of the first major conclusions resulting from the Commission's survey of Pinelands resources was that all the region's important natural resources were not safely tucked away in the Preservation Area. There was plenty of land in the Protection Area that experienced little or no development. Many of the same critical environmental features which characterized the Preservation Area were found here in abundance -- unpolluted streams, rare plants and animals, and pristine environments such as cedar swamps. It became evident that much of the Protection Area could be classified as possessing the essential character of the Pinelands. Land that met the Commission's criteria for essential character was placed in Forest Area. These areas generally adjoin the Preservation Area, but also extend far to the south, linked to the northern forest by a narrow undeveloped stretch between Hammonton and Egg Harbor City. Forest Areas within the Pinelands Area contain about 257,000 acres. As of June 2014, about 55% of the total has been permanently protected, as state frests, parks and wildlife management ares under public ownership. The same land uses that are permitted in the Preservation Area District are permitted in Forest Areas. Municipalities are also given the option of including certain other new uses, such as limited commercial establishments. Each municipality is also assigned a maximum number of new housing units that may be built in its Forest Area. The Plan allows one new house for each 15.8 acres of privately owned, undeveloped upland. Clustering of the permitted residential development on one-acre lots is required in Forest Areas to minimize forest fragmentation and environmental damage.
Agricultural Production Areas
The Plan provides another major land use area in the Protection Area which is designed to accommodate and encourage farming. Large concentrations of active farmland lie within the Pinelands' western boundary. Blocks of more than 1,000 acres of active farmland and adjacent farm soil are grouped into Agricultural Production Areas where farming and related activities will remain the dominant land use. The Plan classifies about 68,500 acres of the Pinelands Area this way, including 2,100 acres on the western fringe of the Preservation Area. Municipalities may designate additional Agricultural Production Areas subject to Commission approval. Local ordinances are required to protect farm operations by exempting them from rules pertaining to dust, noise, odors, and hours of operation. Housing for farm owners and employees is permitted at a density of one home for every 10 acres. New, non-farm related housing is limited to one home for every 40 acres. Persons with family links to the Pinelands will also be allowed to build homes on lots of 3.2 acres in size.
Regional Growth Areas
To determine where development should be allowed and encouraged, the Commission had to analyze present and anticipated growth patterns. It found that new development was advancing into the Pines primarily on three fronts. One source of new development was the extension of the Philadelphia-Camden metropolitan area; another was the continuation of rapid development in Ocean County, largely comprising retirement communities; and the third was a building boom set off by Atlantic City's casinos. The Commission estimated the number of new housing units that could be accommodated. These units were then distributed among Regional Growth Areas that were designated in municipalities found to be experiencing development pressure and to be capable of accommodating growth. The Plan stipulates base densities ranging from 1 to 3.5 housing units per acre of developable land when sewers are available. Any other land use may be permitted at a municipality's option as long as the Plan's environmental conditions are met. Regional Growth Areas within the state Pinelands Area are located in 24 municipalities and total just under 77,000 acres. At the overall base densities called for in the Plan, the Commission originally estimated that as many as 56,000 new housing units could be built in these areas. An additional 17,500 units could be built in these growth areas with the use of "Pinelands Development Credits." This innovative development transfer program is explained in the succeeding pages. As of June 2012, the Commission had approved 37,267 residential units and 1,041 commercial projects in the Regional Growth Area.
Rural Development Areas
The Plan's remaining land use classification takes in areas that meet neither the stringent environmental criteria for Forest Areas nor lie squarely in the path of development like Regional Growth Areas. These transition zones are classified as Rural Development Areas and account for just under 111,000 acres within the Pinelands Area. The Plan attempts to protect the characteristic Pinelands features that can be found there while allowing modest development to proceed and giving municipalities as much leeway as possible to determine land uses. New housing is allowed at a maxium density of one unit per 3.2 acres of privately owned, undeveloped upland. Clustering of the permitted residential development on one acre lots is required. In essence, the Rural Development Areas will function as safety valves, siphoning off development pressures which Regional Growth Areas can't absorb. Local governments may plan for that spillover in advance by designating "municipal reserve areas" in their Rural Development Areas. These municipal reserves can be developed at the same densities as Regional Growth Areas once the adjacent growth areas are saturated and a need for additional housing still exists.
Pinelands Development Credits
Sales of credits take place on the open market like any real estate transaction. In 1985, the state created a Pinelands Development Credit Bank that can buy and sell credits, guarantee loans using credits for collateral, and maintain a registry of credit owners and purchasers. In 2011, the Pinelands Commission assumed responsibility for the administration of the Bank, although the PDC Bank Board itself remains a separate entity.When credits are transferred to a Regional Growth Area, each credit entitles the owner to build four additional housing units. Municipalities are required to allow for the use of credits in their land use regulations. To distribute the bonus housing units evenly and maintain consistent housing types in various neighborhoods, municipalities designate zoning districts in which residential development will be permitted at densities ranging from less than 0.5 dwelling units per acre to 8 dwelling units per acre with credits. Using credits, development can take place at the high end of the density ranges. This could theoretically increase the number of units built in the growth areas by about 50 percent, or roughly 28,000 units. However, the number of credits that will be available for sale will generate only about 17,500 units, according to Commission estimates in 2005. The gap between supply and demand is expected to create a stronger market for the credits.
Environmental Standards & Standards That Apply To Specific Types Of Activities
Wetlands - Different types of wetlands in the Pinelands such as cedar swamps and pitch pine lowlands help reduce pollution, prevent flooding, and serve as the home for many of the region's rare plants and animals. These valuable wetlands are easily spoiled by development. For these reasons, the Pinelands Plan generally prohibits building in wetlands. Regulations in Subchapter 6 of the Pinelands Plan are intended to protect wetlands and prevent the health problems that would occur if septic systems were installed there.
Most types of commercial and residential development are prohibited in wetlands. Exceptions are non-intensive land uses such as forestry (lumbering), agricultural operations compatible with wetlands (such as blueberry and cranberry farming), and certain other low intensity activities. Public improvements, such as roads and utility distribution lines, are permitted to cross wetlands in limited instances.
To prevent environmental degradation, a protective zone around wetlands must be established. Generally, no development is allowed within 300 feet of a wetland. This distance can be reduced if it can be shown that the proposed development will not significantly harm the wetland area.
Vegetation - The vegetation of the Pinelands is both fragile and unique. The Pinelands contains an extraordinary mixture of plants, many of which reach their northern or southern range limits here. There are also 54 plant species in the Pinelands which are in danger of disappearing entirely from New Jersey.
In order to protect populations of these rare plants, development must be designed to avoid irreversible harm to their survival. The Pinelands Plan lists the 54 plant species in the Pinelands which are threatened or endangered.
In addition, the clearing of land is regulated so that the essential character of the Pinelands can be preserved. When more than 1,500 square feet of land is cleared, it must be for an agricultural purpose or necessary to carry out an approved development project. In order to preserve native vegetation, areas cleared for development must be landscaped largely with indigenous plants. The use of native vegetation is also important because many non-native plants require extensive fertilization and chemical application to grow in the Pinelands and their use would contribute substantially to water pollution. Some municipalities which have brought their land use ordinances into conformance with the Pinelands Plan have been allowed to designate certain zones where non-native vegetation is allowed.
Wildlife -The Pinelands National Reserve is home to 299 species of birds, 39 species of mammals, including 4 bats found only during migration, 91 species of fish, 33 species of reptiles, and 26 species of amphibians. Thirty-nine species (30 birds, 5 reptiles, and 4 amphibians) are currently listed as threatened or endangered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Office of endangered and Nongame Species. Development must be carried out in a manner which does not disturb habitats for significant wildlife populations.
Of the approximately 50 fish and wildlife species in the Pinelands, 34 are in danger of becoming extinct in New Jersey. These threatened and endangered animals are listed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Endangered and Nongame Species. Included in this list of endangered species are the majestic bald eagle and the elusive Pine Barrens treefrog. Particular attention must be devoted to the design of projects so that habitats critical to these species are protected.
Water Resources - The Pinelands is famous for its vast underground water supply. The Cohansey aquifer in the Pinelands contains over 17 trillion gallons of pure water, enough to cover the entire State of New Jersey with ten feet of water. This underground reservoir feeds most the area's streams, supports its agricultural industry, maintains the ecological balance of our coastal estuaries, and provides drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. The high water table and porous, sandy soil of the Pinelands make this aquifer particularly vulnerable to pollution. Pollutants move quickly through this sandy soil into the ground water.
To ensure that this water is not substantially degraded, new sewer plants and on-site septic systems must be designed so that discharges do not raise pollution levels on the property to more than two parts per million nitrate-nitrogen. Nitrate-nitrogen, a primary pollutant in the Pinelands, can cause serious health problems and environmental damage.
In some cases, large lots are required to dilute pollutants from septic systems. In other cases, innovative septic systems must be used to reduce the level of pollutants entering the ground water. Septic systems must be installed above the water table (the point below ground where water begins) to function properly and prevent pathogens from entering the ground water. Construction is generally prohibited in areas where the ground water is within five feet of the surface during the wettest part of the year.
Another major feature of the Pinelands Plan relates to the retention of storm water. Because of the porous soils here, most rainwater percolates through the soil and replenishes the ground water system. However, development normally reduces the amount of water drained into the aquifer unless special measures such as swales or retention basins are used. Unfortunately, storm sewers normally only carry water away and discharge it into a stream. This results in a lowering of the ground water level and introduces pollutants directly into streams. The Pinelands Plan, therefore, requires that increased storm water run off caused by development be retained on site.
There are a number of other standards that are designed to protect the region's water resources (e.g., minimum well depths), prohibitions on the disposal of toxic chemicals, and limits on the exportation of water outside of the Pinelands.
Air Quality - In addition to meeting relevant state and federal air quality standards, large development projects must also be designed to limit carbon monoxide emissions. These additional standards generally apply to residential development projects involving 50 or more homes and other projects which involve 100 or more parking spaces.
Scenic Resources - The scenic beauty of the Pinelands is highly prized by both residents and visitors.
In order to protect the area's scenic attractiveness, stringent limitations have been placed on the size and type of signs allowed in the Preservation Area District and Special Agricultural Production Areas. New warning and safety signs, on-site commercial signs, and off-site signs advertising agricultural roadside stands are permitted in the Pinelands. The erection of new off-site billboards is prohibited in all areas of the Pinelands. Other off-site commercial advertising signs, commonly referred to as billboards, are permitted only in Regional Growth Areas and Pinelands Towns upon a demonstration that an existing billboard in a more conservation-oriented management area has been removed.
Within the Preservation Area District, Forest Areas, and Rural Development Areas, there is a general requirement that buildings be set back 200 feet from major public roads. This distance may be reduced if the set back is constrained by environmental or other physical considerations, or if an applicant can demonstrate that surrounding development is set back less than 200 feet. There are also nineteen scenic rivers in the Pinelands along which proposed development must be screened.
Most new utility lines must be placed underground, and areas where more than 10 motor vehicles are stored (e.g., junkyards, car dealerships) must be screened from nearby homes and public roads in the Preservation Area District, Forest Areas, and Rural Development Areas.
Fire - The Pinelands is one of the most fire prone areas in the United States. Every year portions of the Pines are swept up in wildfires. While these fires are important for the area's ecology, they also pose a significant threat to life and property.
The Pinelands Plan requires certain preventive measures to minimize the danger posed by these wildfires. These measures include maintaining "fuel breaks" around homes and other buildings and road access requirements. The type of vegetation in the area determines whether a site is a low, moderate, high, or extreme fire hazard area.
Historic Resources - The Pinelands has a rich cultural and historic heritage. The area was populated by Indians long before European colonization took place. The physical remains of the historic and prehistoric past need to be protected.
There are two general procedures contained in the Pinelands Plan to accomplish this. For known sites that are widely recognized for their historic import (e.g., those sites listed in the National or State Register of Historic Places), proposed changes in the character of those sites must be carefully reviewed. A "Certificate of Appropriateness" is issued by the Commission if the proposed changes are found to be warranted. In towns which have already had their plans and ordinances certified by the Commission, the town conducts this review.
There is also a general requirement applicable to all "major" development applications (generally five or more dwelling units and commercial establishments) and other, smaller projects located in a historic settlement (village or town) in the Pinelands. To find out if any significant historic or prehistoric resources are present on a development site, a cultural resource survey must be completed by a qualified professional prior to the start of construction. The requirement may be waived if there is little or no likelihood of any historic or prehistoric remains on the site. When this survey discloses the presence of important historic resources, a "Certificate of Appropriateness" must be issued before the development project can proceed.
Standards That Apply To Specific Types Of Activities
Forestry - The growing and harvesting of timber is an economically valuable industry in the Pinelands. If done properly, timber harvesting can avoid substantial environmental harm while promoting the regeneration of commercially valuable trees.
Anyone who wishes to cut timber for commercial purposes in the Pinelands Area must obtain a forestry permit from the municipality in which the property is located. Proper silvicultural practices for harvesting and forest regeneration must be used, and a forestry management plan must be prepared. This plan must also be reviewed by the New Jersey Bureau of Forest Management. To ensure that the area is properly restored, municipalities may require that a performance guarantee in the form of a financial surety be posted by the property owner.
Agriculture - Agriculture is not only a valuable industry in the Pinelands -- it contributes significantly to the unique character of the region. The blueberry and cranberry industry's dependence on large quantities of pure water has greatly contributed to the ecological stability of the region. Agricultural-related development is generally exempt from Pinelands Commission review.
However, farming operations must be carried out in an environmentally sensitive manner. The recommended agricultural management practices prepared by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, the Soil Conservation Service, and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station must be followed where appropriate. In designated Agricultural Production Areas of the Pinelands, farming operations are exempted from "nuisance" ordinances which inhibit efficient crop production.
So that agricultural operations do not increase water quality problems in identified trouble spots, resource conservation plans must be prepared (normally by the Soil Conservation District if the farmer wishes) for farms in these areas.
Resource Extraction - The commercial mining of sand, gravel, clay, and ilmenite is permitted in the Pinelands. However, since resource extraction significantly alters the landscape and can lower water quality and disrupt drainage patterns, mining operations must be carefully conducted.
The Pinelands Plan prohibits new mining operations in the Preservation Area District , Agricultural Production Areas, Forest Area and Special Agricultural Production Areas. Existing operations in these areas are permitted to continue, subject to strict limitations. New mining operations may be located in other parts of the Pinelands. The Pinelands Plan requires that these mining areas be buffered from adjacent properties. Mining must be conducted in a logical sequence, harm to water resources off the site must be minimized and the site must be restored once mining is complete.Waste Management - Due to the fragile nature of the Pinelands environment, new landfills are prohibited and other types of waste management facilities are generally limited to the more growth-oriented areas of the Pinelands (Regional Growth Areas and Pinelands Towns). Existing landfills in the Pinelands were phased out by 1990. Waste generated outside the Pinelands cannot be disposed here unless it is from a county which has at least half of its area within the Pinelands National Reserve.
Recreation - Certain controls have been placed on recreation activities to ensure that the environment is not severely harmed.
Motor boats in excess of 10 horsepower are not permitted in state waters in the Pinelands except in certain downstream areas of the Mullica and Wading Rivers. Limitations also exist on the use of motor vehicles on state lands. The Pinelands Commission must also review route maps for organized off-road vehicle events.
Recreation areas must be accessible to handicapped persons and bicycling facilities must be provided in conjunction with public roads.
Local Implementation
Once a county or municipality revises its plans and ordinances, the Commission's executive director holds a public hearing and submits a recommendation to the full Pinelands Commission. The Commission may either certify the plans and ordinances as being in conformance with the Plan, certify them with conditions, or disapprove them and indicate the necessary changes.
Development Review
Anyone who wants to undertake any form of development as defined by the Plan must file an application with both the Commission and municipality. Applications are first reviewed by Commission staff to determine whether they are complete. Once the Commission has reviewed a project, the normal municipal review process begins. Municipal authorities are required to notify the Commission when they are scheduled to consider an application and when it receives preliminary or final local approval. These local approvals are then subject to Commission review to ensure that they are consistent with the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan.
The Commission also has the authority to grant waivers from strict compliance with the Plan for reasons of extraordinary hardship or compelling public need. The Commission also issues binding letters interpreting any of the Plan's provisions.
If you desire further information regarding the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan, or desire a copy of land use regulations currently in effect, please feel free to contact the Pinelands Commission by writing our public programs office at the address below.
The Pinelands CommissionP.O. Box 359New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064Voice: 609-894-7300Fax: 609-894-7330
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Furlough follies: Gone but not forgotten
Monday - 2/11/2013, 2:00am EST
At any given time, tens of thousands of federal civil servants are out of the office on assignments. Some brief, some extended.
They may be auditing taxes or investigating a meat packing plant. Maybe counting wild horses in Wyoming or on a border-patrol inspection in Arizona or New Mexico. They could be living in a quonset hut in Antarctica. Possibly on long-term assignments in Bosnia, or the heart of Africa.
So what happens to these people if they get word from headquarters that they've been furloughed? Are they lost in space? Do they come home, and if so when and how?
Although furloughed employees are supposed to return to base immediately, what if they are furloughed only one day per week? That appears to be the plan for some agencies, including Defense. Do they come home for one day, then return to their out-of-town assignment until the next F-day. Do they shelter-in-place living off their own dime until it runs its course?
Weird situations prompt weird questions. And answers!
Sequestration and the furloughs that would follow are not a sure thing. Politicians could work out a compromise, or as the president has proposed, moving the March deadline to a later date. Meaning we will go through this drill again in August or whenever.
By now, most federal agencies that have furlough plans have drawn them up. Some, but not all, have even notified employees as to what will happen, if anything happens.
Defense, the largest federal civilian agency, says if it happens, it will likely furlough nonemergency (nonessential) workers one day per week through September, the end of the fiscal year. That would be a maximum of 22 days, although few people would see a furlough, if there is one, lasting anywhere near that long.
Furloughs would save the government money, at least in payroll. But legally implementing one requires lots of prep time, detailing with sometimes mind-numbing issues. They can range from the petty to the very serious. Navy, for example, has canceled plans to send a second aircraft carrier to patrol the touchy Persian gulf region. That sends a message to both Congress and Iran.
An example of the detailed issues furloughs present is in rules dealing with workers who are on out-of-office assignments on F-day. If they are declared essential, they stay and work. And get paid. If they are non-essential, they would be subject to furlough rules — stop working and come home ASAP. But those rules were expanded for extended furloughs (like the 1995-96 shutdowns). That could get tricky in a one-day-per-week furlough climate.
According to government furlough guidance, employees working out of town (or the country) or on detail could — unless declared to be emergency workers — be told to come home? "Employees who are notified to return home should do so as soon as practicable. When an employee returns promptly, the travel expenses that the employee incurs in the return are properly-incurred obligations of the agency (as part of the agency's orderly-shutdown activities), and the agency will reimburse these travel costs after appropriations are enacted and are available for that purpose."
But if the worker "doesn't elect to return promptly" and runs up bills — like for food and lodging — "those additional travel expenses are not obligations of the agency, and will not be reimbursed ... ."
During and after the furloughs, if they happen, politicians and portions of the media will go after silly "bureaucrats." They will take the heat if things go wrong or if something serious, even deadly, happens. But it's important to remember that it's politicians — of both parties — who brought us to the brink, forcing otherwise busy and productive (one hopes) career feds to write regulations worthy of The Onion, covering their own job funerals.
For more on furlough guidance, click here.
Compiled by Jack Moore
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Its not a 'civil war' when foreigners are sending mercenaries into a country to murder civilians, in the attempt to dupe others into believing that that government ought to be toppled.
Israel is useing the U.S.A. who is using the U.A.E. who are using foreign mercenaries (who are pretending to be Syrian protesters) to topple the Syrian government and further de-stabilize the arab world.
The arabs are a thorn in Israels thigh, and a stepping block to their ultimate goals.
Maybe the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. What would Israel gain here.
Disregarding the racist ranting and unfounded conspiracy paranoia of your statement. Both sides of the civil war have the same opinion of Israel. So regardless of who prevails, nothing will change for Israel and it may even get worse for them, as it has in Egypt.


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