Friends Work to Map Tamanend Park Trees
Ray and Marge Schwegel have identified and marked more than 130 trees at the township's 103-acre park.
During our modern age when technology seems to be honored over nature, Marge and Raymond Schwegel are finding a way to combine the two in order to raise awareness about what actually surrounds us. As members of the Friends of Tamanend Park, the couple has taken it upon themselves for the past three years to research, identify and map the GPS coordinates of more than 130 trees along the trails of the park, in Upper Southampton. The Schwegels are currently developing a “seek-and-find” program mostly for kids. “Ultimately, I want to give the kids GPS coordinates, and they can use their own unit—which these days can be a cell phone—and then they can go find the trees,” Schwegel said. This helps the younger generations, those who may be …
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Laura Brandt
7:48 pm on Thursday, April 28, 2011
What a wonderful couple who serve their community. Thanks for setting this great example to all. You can learn anything if you really want to. more ›