The East Kentucky Veterans Park and Trail was created to honor local veterans as well as provide a safe walking area for citizens to improve their health.  The veterans committee, along with Tri-Cities Heritage Development reached out to the Harlan County Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent to provide information to identify tree species along the trail.  The ANR agent worked with the group and the University of Kentucky’s Department of Forestry and Wood Utilization Center to provide signage for native trees as well as a narrative for each tree species identified.  The signage was placed on the tree for identification.   This educational component to the trail has already been a huge success.  One trail user said “thank you to those who identified the trees for our boy to discover nature.”