“PHOTOGRAPHING THE ABBOTT MARSHLANDS”: Photographer Frank Sauer will give a free talk at the at Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton on Sunday, January 21 at 2 p.m.

The Friends for the Abbott Marshlands (FFAM) will host Photographing the Abbott Marshlands with Frank Sauer, “Voices for the Marsh 2024,” on January 21 at 2 p.m. at Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. The event is free. RSVP is required at tinyurl.com/3wnanuav.

Sauer has visited the Abbott Marshlands with his camera hundreds of times in the last five years, sometimes filming with his drone in aerial shots, sometimes shooting the beautiful vistas seen there along with closeups of the native flora. The nonprofit will facilitate talks and walking tours in advance of their biennial photography exhibit this fall. Sauer will serve as the juror of entry and of prizes for the “Voices for the Marsh 2024” photo exhibition.

In this talk, Sauer will give an overview of the different areas of the Abbott Marshlands — Roebling Park, Hamilton. He will highlight special sights that can be discovered throughout the seasons and illustrate the talk with his own photos. Further information on Sauer’s photography is at franksauer.smugmug.com. For those interested in entering or sponsoring the “Voices for the Marsh 2024” photography exhibit, read the prospectus at https://abbottmarshlands.org/voices-for-the-marsh-2024.

The Abbott Marshlands are situated in Lenapehoking, the traditional and ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The lands include over 3,000 acres of open space along the Delaware River in Central New Jersey. Although a satellite view of the area quickly reveals its ecological unity, the land parcels are actually divided among two counties, four municipalities, and numerous landowners. Crisscrossed by a canal, a railroad, and even a major highway interchange, the essential nature of the northernmost freshwater tidal marsh on the Delaware River becomes evident. It provides rich habitat for a wide variety of birds (an Important Bird Area), fish, mammals, and plants. FFAM is the only organization whose sole focus is the promotion and stewardship of the entire marshlands. It consists of locations at Roebling Park, Bordentown Bluffs, the D&R Canal towpath, the Crosswicks Creek tidal water trail near the Delaware River, Northern Community Park in Bordentown, and a portion of Duck Island’s trail system in Trenton.

FFAM coordinates their work with the Tulpehaking Nature Center, the Mercer County Park Commission, the Delaware and Raritan (D&R) Canal State Park, the City of Bordentown, and Bordentown Township. For more information, visit abbottmarshlands.org.