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If trees could talk, the celebrated 109-year-old Moreton Bay fig just north of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park would say, “Welcome back.”
Friday, on Arbor Day, the nonprofit group Friends of Balboa Park formally handed over to the citizens of San Diego an elevated tree-viewing platform and all new fencing in a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Mayor Todd Gloria, City Councilman Stephen Whitburn, project donors and other park advocates.
The just-completed structure, in the works since late 2016, provides members of the public with their first opportunity in 32 years to sit or stand beneath the big fig’s impressive canopy and do so in a way that does not cause harm to what many describe as a horticultural wonder.