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Credit Pacific Service Union Think you can't see the forest for the trees sometimes? A well-known arborist from New England thinks that's what has been occurring, quite literally, in Haddon Township for the past few hundred years. That is, until he visited the township last week and made a startling discovery that has captured the attention of tree experts across the country.

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Credit First Service Union A 25.8-acre tract of land nestled among a school, a shopping center and a high-rise apartment complex could be one of the oldest forests on the East Coast.

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Card Credit Mobile Service "This forest, to me, is one of the rarest forests in America, if not the world," said Matthew Largess, an arborist from Jamestown, R.I.

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Card Credit Discover Service He quickly concluded it may be one of the most precious and scientifically significant sites in New Jersey. Now national tree experts are making plans to flock to the site, known around town as the MacArthur Tract.

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Credit Public Service Union Many of the trees appear to be 200 to 400 years old in this "pristine forest" off MacArthur Boulevard in the township's Westmont section.

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Card Credit Processing Service "Walking into this forest was a life-changing experience," Largess concluded after a tour Tuesday. "This is a last remnant of what New Jersey looked like in the pre- Colonial period. Its value is priceless and its scientific information is limitless."

Center Credit Service Union But the potentially precious parcel might not be around much longer. What environmentalists see as a historic landmark, others in the township see as a great spot for athletic fields.

Card Credit Service Wireless For months, the coveted MacArthur Tract has been a topic of heated discussion at township commission meetings. Children are in need of more athletic fields, and the township has plans to use 7 acres of the MacArthur Tract for that purpose.

Credit Security Service Union Local environmentalists, however, want to preserve the property, one of the last pieces of green in this township of 14,651 people.

Credit Report Service Largess and his posse of national tree experts could be the forest's saviors.

Blogspot Com Christian "Based on the description and the fact that you have an intact, fully functioning forest, it's quite remarkable, especially in an urban setting," said David Orwig, a forest ecologist at Harvard University.

Christian Counseling Credit Orwig plans to see the site for himself in the next couple of weeks.

Credit Federal Service Union "We don't have many of those left and we can still learn a lot from them in terms of trees, wildlife, pollution," he said. "If we lose the trees, then we can never really investigate these types of things."

Credit Monitoring Service If Largess is correct, the MacArthur Tract is one of only four "old growth forests" in New Jersey.

Credit Division Service Old growth forests are woodlands that look as the land would have looked had Europeans never settled in North America, according to the Eastern Growth Clearing House, an organization that works to preserve and restore such forests in the eastern United States.

Card Credit Online Service Another old growth forest in New Jersey is Mettler's Woods, a 65-acre New Brunswick tract with oak, beech and hickory trees more than 300 and 400 years old.

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc Largess learned about the MacArthur Tract after attending a funeral in Haddonfield in January and hearing that local residents were trying to save a forest.

Card Credit Fleet Service He contacted local activists Mark Dill and Fred Stine, then drove five hours from Rhode Island last week to see the trees for himself.

Card Consolidation Credit "I'm in shock. I expected to see maybe an old growth forest, but nothing to this magnitude. This is some of the greatest oak forest left in the United States," Largess said Tuesday, hugging the trees, some with startlingly large diameters.

Credit Free Online Report "It's the size of the trees that's remarkable - 16 feet around is just amazing," he continued. "We're in one of the most populated areas in the United States and we're in a pristine forest."

Credit Federal First Service New Jersey has 8.4 million people - 1,134.5 people per square mile, according to 2000 Census data.

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Center Credit Family Service "To me, this is absolutely astonishing that a site with such giant trees exists in such a big area," said Bruce Kershner, a national expert on old growth trees. "And what do you know? They want to destroy it."

Credit Reporting Service Kershner, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., just finished writing a book for the Sierra Club about public tracts of old growth forests on the East Coast. He's studied old growth trees since 1973 and has written seven other nature guide books.

Cca Credit Division Service He plans to visit Haddon Township on April 2 to see what he suspects is the largest collection of old growth trees on the East Coast.

Credit Free Report Service "It is an historic site as well as a national treasure," he said.

Card Credit Customer Discover Dill, president of the Newton Creek Watershed Association, said a variety of factors have protected the tract from development in the past. They include wetland regulations, the provisions of a 134-year-old will and state Green Acres funding, said Dill, of Haddon Township.

Credit Repair Report Service In 2000, the township purchased 15.3 acres of the tract for $1.5 million. The Diocese of Camden owns the other 10.5 acres.

Credit Legal Repair Service Dill said he always suspected the MacArthur Tract to be old growth. But South Jersey environmentalists are more interested in wetlands and watersheds, and thus the tract's potential value was overlooked, he said.

Cic Credit Monitoring Service "It's easy to lose track of what might be in your own back yard," Dill said.

Ccs Credit Division Service On Friday, a state Department of Environmental Protection official visited the site and measured some of its larger trees for the state's Big Tree database. The official, assistant regional forester Dave Johnson, said the state currently has no jurisdiction over the woodlands.

Credit Service Union Worker But Kershner hopes the state recognizes the site should be saved.

1st Credit Service Union He said, "You just don't cut down the last of the last of an historical legacy."

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Courier-Post - 2/17/2002

Topic: Forests & Trees

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