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Friday, September 25, 2026 8:00 am – 5:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round-trip transportation will be provided via coach bus from the Hilton Garden Inn Philadelphia\/Ft. Washington hotel<\/strong> (5030 Pennsylvania Ave., Ft. Washington, PA 19034) to the various field trip locations. Each of the field trip locations listed below will be visited for approximately 1.5-2 hours. A box lunch and drinks will be provided, but please bring your own water.<\/strong> Please arrive at the hotel parking lot at 7:45 am<\/strong> to check in for the field trips!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust has been managing warm-season grasslands and mixed mesophytic woodland for over 30 years of our 56-year history. After decades of forest restoration and conserving land for bird species and wildlife that call our preserve home, we have turned our focus to purposefully building plant structure and forage for insects, the foundation of our community food web. Staff have been experimenting with establishing diverse forest stands of varying ages, injecting perennials into established grasslands, and thoughtfully considering the interplay of these habitat types throughout our species\u2019 life cycles. Meet the land managers and scientist leading the work on a two hour moderately-paced hike over rolling terrain; rain or shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cramer Hill Waterfront Park Restoration Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What was once a landfill from the 1930s-1970s is now a stunning 62-acre park. Cramer Hill Waterfront Park in Camden, NJ, located on the confounds of the Delaware and Cooper Rivers, is an ecological hotspot offering residents access to the waterfront for the first time in nearly a century. Wildlife thrives throughout the park, with over 375,000 native plants, shrubs, and trees installed throughout the park, along with bald eagle perch poles and basking turtle docks. As part of the restoration at this site, 3,000 linear feet of previously eroding shoreline were restored, 450 linear feet of living shoreline were installed to buffer tidal energy, 7 acres of new tidal wetlands were created, and a 1,000 linear foot tidal channel that links the wetlands to a 2-acre fishing pond was created. Additionally, 375,000 cubic yards of landfill waste were consolidated, regraded, and covered with a 2-foot clean-fill cap complete with a passive gas-venting system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FDR Park Restoration Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The historic, 350-acre FDR Park is located at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, and very close to Philadelphia International Airport. It is also very close to sea level, and thus vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate. Working with the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), and PIDC, Philadelphia\u2019s public-private economic development corporation, Biohabitats transformed a neglected, 33-AC portion of the park into an ecologically functioning mosaic of tidal wetlands. The project mitigates impacts to low-quality wetlands caused by an airport expansion, while also advancing the park\u2019s master plan to becoming a resilient, state-of-the art recreation complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cobbs Creek Restoration and Mitigation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The purpose of the Cobbs Creek Restoration and Mitigation Project is to restore streams and floodplain wetlands within the Cobbs Creek Golf Course property impacted by legacy sediment and upstream watershed alterations. The project will restore over 14,000 linear feet of Cobbs Creek, Indian Creek, and tributaries within the property, restore approximately 25 acres of floodplain wetlands associated with these streams, and remove a net 131,000 CY of legacy sediment from the floodplain. Material removed from the floodplain is being graded into the golf course which is being restored to its approximate original routing from 1916.\u00a0This effort is anticipated to result in reduced system shear stress, increased system stability, generally lower water surface elevations in the project area for a given storm event, reestablished stream and floodplain connectivity, improved downstream water quality, and improved habitat for aquatic and terrestrial organisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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