Hammonton Lake Tree Slaughter:
Close to tears looking at photos of tree slaughter in favorite park (before and after shots). I was a few hundred feet from here today for a t-ball game, but couldn’t bear to look over. My boys both love the almost-daily walk we take through here and it’s all gone because some idiots wanted to be Big Men with Bulldozers and remake the park. Knowing this town, this will probably all be parking lot.
Francis, the 3yo, has a specific route he takes, starting the playground area in the background, through a specific gate, down a specific path, over a specific guardrail, across a specific marshy field, etc., etc., and will be completely besides himself when he sees this. Without a doubt this will be one of the top-five most traumatic things in his life and I’m kind of afraid to even take him.
These before and after pics via Flickr pal BACKYard Woods Explorer. Backy thinks some of the trees cut were around before the park. Some new saplings were planted just last year and are now gone, testament to the impulsive nature of this cutting.
