Walnut Station completed on Greenway Trail
The story of Whittier once thriving walnut industry comes to life in words, pictures and plants at the Greenway Trail newest exhibit, the Walnut Station.
The city held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday morning at the new Walnut Station to mark the completion of work on the interpretive exhibit and a bioswale (urban landscaping for an environmentally friendly runoff ditch). The bioswale captures water and lets it soak into the earth rather Timberland Boots Uk and flooding storm sewers with pollutants.
State Parks Deputy Director Sedrick Mitchell; Assemblyman Ian Calderon, D Industry; Mayor Cathy Warner; and City Councilmen Owen Newcomer and Oakley Frogskins Sunglasses Joe Vinatieri attended the dedication.
Warner said the Walnut Station demonstrates the cooperation between the various government, organizations and interested citizens of Whittier to improve the Ray Ban Wayfarer Sunglasses Greenway Trail and the city.
Mitchell explained how Whittier was able to obtain the funding for the Walnut Station.
Proposition 84, the nature education grant program, received requests totaling $3 billion for various projects throughout the state.
were only able to fund 1 out of every 11 requests received, Mitchell said. is a tribute to Whittier excellent design and effort.
Work on the projects was funded by a $499,800 grant the city received from the Nature Education Facilities Program through the state parks department.
Whittier walnut heritage has been preserved in a single tree that gets special care to ensure it will continue to grow on Whittier Boulevard, across the street from the Walnut Station.
Now, there are seven Paradox Hybrid Walnut daughters.
Walnut Station pays homage to Whittier most beloved and well known tree. A venerable Paradox Hybrid Walnut Tree planted in 1907, all that is left of what was once a major industry in the early agricultural days of the City, according to the city website.
Seedlings from the tree, a cross between an English Walnut and a Black Walnut, have been carefully dug up and replanted. The daughter trees have been planted at the Walnut Station to ensure the tree will always be part of the city.
The station also describes the water conservation benefits of the bioswale, Nike High Heels Boots which manages urban runoff. The bioswale runs from Pacific Place to Pickering Avenue.
The grant also paid for the native plants demonstration garden at the Laurel Station, signs directing trail users between the Abercrombie Nz New Market San Gabriel River Trail and the Greenway Trail, and trail maps.
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