Daily News | Earth Day 2023: A photo walk through Saddler’s Woods in South Jersey
in Haddon Township is an example of what the landscape in the region looked like long before William Penn plotted out his grid of streets in Philadelphia between the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers. In Saddler’s Woods one tree thrived for nearly 300 years.
I feel a sense of walking in history, experiencing another time when I hike and photograph in the 25.8-acre, old-growth forest in South Jersey, squeezed in between four schools, a church, high-rise apartments, a water tower, municipal buildings, a shopping center, tennis club, and a county library.A 2003 conservation easement preserves in perpetuity the land, which was purchased by the township.
In his will, Saddler left the woods to his heirs with instructions that “none of the timber shall be cut thereon”. Naturalist educators Gina DiMaio and Jeff Calhoun with Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association lead a spring tour of Saddler’s Woods stopping at Emancipation Beech. A 2020 storm uprooted and felled many trees, including the ancient native beech.
A professional tree company cut the trunk and uprighted it where it remains today. DiMaio said children still love to step inside the tree’s hollow trunk.
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