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Trees for Health was a year-long (1998) public education project that took place in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The project covered trees that have traditional and current medicinal uses. Funding for the project was provided in part by the 1998 California ReLeaf/National Urban Forestry Grant Program and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Local sponsors were People for Trees, The Herb Club of San Diego and Balboa Park.
In 1998 the project purchased or received donations of twenty
medicinal trees and the Balboa Park nursery staff directed by
Kathy Puplava, Park Horticulturist, and Paul Sirois, Grounds Maintenance
Supervisor, planted them. Also included in the project were twelve
genus of medicinal trees that were already in Balboa Park.
Most of the newly planted trees are in the West Mesa area in a
section called The Medicinal Tree Garden.
There is a pamphlet available at the Balboa Park Visitor's Center that will help you to find the trees by using the maps provided, in addition to giving information about each tree.
For information regarding a video of the educational seminars held in conjunction with this project contact Trees for Health coordinator, Barbara Carey at (619) 462-3320, or People for Trees.
Scientific names used in this project were taken from The Herb Society of America Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses by Deni Bown, and Eyewitness Handbooks, Herbs by Lesley Bremness.
The committee:
Barbara Carey (Project Coordinator), Charlotte Tenney (Administrative Assistant/Video Editor), Jillian Belding (Publicity), Carole Brown (Program), Judy Dunning (Tree Acquisition/Pamphlet Editor), Laura Emerick (Photography), Natalie Pastor (Graphic Design/Webpage), Fern Wilson (Tree Acquisition/Identification)
