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- 17 - <br />emphasis on color and texture for visual interest as well as <br />their ability to attract wildlife. <br />b. Hiking Trail <br />A hiking trail will be developed out. to the point. It's <br />emphasis will be on enhancing th, na,ural feeling of the area. <br />c. Parking and Access <br />D. 12 car gravel parking lot is planned with additional <br />overflow parking on a grass surface. <br />d. Obervation "Blind" <br />The northwest corner of the main barn should he utilized as <br />an area to observe wildlife and tn, lake beyond. Special <br />plantings should G-? planned near this area so as to attract <br />wildlife for viewing by Nature Area visitors. Much of the <br />rem-,inder of the barn will be used as space to store <br />maintenance equipment and materials to carry out maintenance <br />functions. <br />2. Capital Funding for the Nature Area <br />Capital costs for this portion of the Park will be minimal. <br />preliminary cost estimates are as follows: <br />o 12 car parking lot S 5,000 <br />o Modifications to the barn 15,000 <br />o Trail development 5.000 <br />o Landscape plantings 25,000 <br />T07A'_ $50,000 <br />C. OPERATIONS PLAN <br />The Nature Area will he open •_he same fours as the Estate Carden. <br />Most visitors will use the area '.heir own" without staff <br />