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Sylvan LeefBuilding A Park Through Education
SYLVAN LEEF Inc. is proud to demonstrate (via
encouragement, example, teaching) that Southern Oregon is a place of great
diversity. SYLVAN LEEF encourages people to think through what they
would like to do with their property, as well as how to implement those plans.
We call this way of looking at Land Management
GEOPONICS. This includes diverse production, if students choose that.
That automatically means BOTH logging and environmental concerns are
addressed. (Neither concept automatically excludes the other.)
Over the long haul, students
will build a park that focuses PRIMARILY on the disabled. This park will
contain (relatively) small groves of exotic trees, set up as a sort of TREE
ZOO. Most of these trees will be selectively protected into perpetuity.
We are working with varied local and national disability organizations to
design the park with the best possible trail systems.
Such trails must function
year-round, through summer concrete and winter mud. Throughout the park,
trails will enter each grove and end in a lollipop turnaround for wheelchair
access.
Imagine, if you will, the disabled being able to
sit in such a grove, surrounded by trees that creak quietly in the oldest of
symphonies. It will be an emotional experience.
We also forsee tomorrow's
parents bringing their own children to the park they helped build and saying,
"Do you see that tree? See my name on the sign? I planted
that when I was just about your age. Look at how much it has
grown!" (The park will be built BY the community.)
"We've been working on this
park since September, 1995. The original plan was for us to do ALL of
the work, and just leave the park to the community. We're finding
we just aren't young enough to pull this off by ourselves. When we
realized we couldn't achieve our goals in our lifetimes without outside help,
we incorporated in 1999. It is now a community-wide project."
---Lee Pelley, Manager
Please contact us with questions or suggestions! sylvanleef@earthlink.net Some Pictures of Sylvan LeefBelow are a few pictures of the Sylvan Leef Project today. We will continue to put pictures here as the project progresses. Click on the Image to get a larger picture or click on the descriptive text below the Image.
SYLVAN LEEF '98 One View A Young Tree
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