(Cherry Hill, NJ) – On Saturday, Dec. 7, the NJ Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (NJISA) will be hosting its annual Workday in Pennypacker Park in Haddonfield where the organization will be providing $150,000 worth of tree work, free of charge to the county. The Workday event is a fundraising effort to provide tree work in a historic park in the state of New Jersey.
“This tree work will be transformative to Pennypacker Park, a beloved location in our county parks system,” said Commissioner Jeffrey Nash, liaison to the Camden County Parks Department. “I want to thank NJISA for selecting Camden County for its 2024 Workday event and I also want to express my gratitude to our county arborist Dan Nowakowski who works tirelessly to ensure that our county stays green and beautiful.”
The Camden County Parks System encompasses thousands of acres of wooded lots and tree work is critical service to maintain the county’s passive recreation trails. By the NJISA providing these free services this will offset taxpayer resources and parks personnel time and energy that can be redirected to other needed areas.
In 1858, William Foulke discovered the world’s first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton at what is now Pennypacker Park. Located where a suburban Haddonfield street dead ends against the deep woods of Pennypacker Park, the site is listed on the NJ Register of Historic Places and is marked with a modest commemorative stone. Just beyond the stone the ground drops away into a steep ravine where the bones of Hadrosaurus foulkii were originally excavated on the eve of the Civil War. More information can be found at: http://www.levins.com/dinosaur.html.