This friendly field puzzle cache will demonstrate the health of the surrounding forest:…The area around Bernardsville was a farming community in the eighteenth century. Therefore, most of the trees here are less than 100 years old. Tulip trees, which were used by the Lenape (native Americans) to make wooden canoes, are considered the tallest native flowering trees in the United States.
Tulip Tree
You are passing through our deer “Enclosure Fence”. It is a deer-free area initiated in 1999 with funds from an anonymous donor. It now encloses about 15 acres. There were no young trees within the area because of browsing deer. Keeping the deer out allows young trees, shrubs, and wildflowers to grow within the enclosure. Volunteers continue to remove invasive plant species such as Japanese Barberry, Multiflora Rose and Winged Euonymus.
The published coordinates take you to an interpretive sign where the puzzle answers can be found.
You must complete the puzzle below to acquire the coordinates to continue the journey to the Final cache .
The Puzzle
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A=____ What species of woodpeckers can be seen?
Downey = 2 , Hairy = 7, pileated = 1
B=____ The Butterfly is what species?
Monarch = 1 , yellowtail = 3, spicebush swallowtail = 5
C=____ The eastern Chipmunk finds shelter in the dense ground cover of what?
dead tree = 5 , fallen log = 7, underground = 6
D=____ No Deer in Here; What plant are tasty to Deer and have all but disappeared at SHWS?
Clover = 2 , Mulit-flora Rose = 7, Bloodroot = 1
E=____Do you see a White-tailed Deer, is this picture taken in what season?
winter = 8 ,spring= 9, summer = 6
F=____ You might hear the cheerful sounds of what ?
Chipmunks = 2 , finches and cardinals = 7, chickadees and Titmice = 4
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Final Stage Coordinates: Results:
N40 44. (A) (B) (C) = N40 44. __ __ __
W074 33. (D) (E) (F) = W74 33. __ __ __
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