Takeda Pharmaceuticals is helping to expand Santee’s Walker Preserve on North Magnolia by bringing 2,015 trees for many generations to come.
This annual event involved planting of cottonwoods, oaks, and elderberry trees for families to walk along the 1.3-mile new trail in late spring. Today’s children can grow up with these trees as well as their kids in turn can walk down the trail among these trees.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals is helping to expand Santee’s Walker Preserve on North Magnolia by bringing 2,015 trees for many generations to come.
This annual event involved planting of cottonwoods, oaks, and elderberry trees for families to walk along the 1.3-mile new trail in late spring. Today’s children can grow up with these trees as well as their kids in turn can walk down the trail among these trees.
Dr. Keith Wilson, President of Takeda San Diego, along with the City of Santee and San Diego River Foundation, is creating this future shady lane trail. Wilson was out with 150 Takeda employees and family members on President’s Day, Feb. 16, plotting, digging, and watering the trees along the trail and along the San Diego River bank.
Ten-year old Mia Magdaraog not only enjoyed the bagels with cream cheese Takeda provided with other snacks and drinks, but also had the rules of planting down pat.
“Trees should be six-feet away from each other and have one inch of soil above the base after it is planted,” Magdaraog said.
She also cautioned that they should be watered after being planted.
Wilson highlighted the fact that Takeda’s community service projects like this appeal to his employees for just that reason—they are contributing to their community.
Takeda employee Jason Brown not only had firm ideas about how to position your feet on the shovel for planting but also envisioned the trail as a great hiking trail and an opportunity to enjoy hearing the birds along the way among other activities.
The trail on 107 acres will open in late spring to walkers, hikers, cyclists, and equestrians. Interpretive signs, a kiosk, bike repair station, benches, and picnic tables are all slated to accompany the 14-foot wide granite paths.
