1. Pouring new exhibit floor.
2. Voids in the floor will be filled with
soil and planted with tropical foliage.
3. Scaffold goes up to facilitate the completion
of artificial trees, installation of vines, and painting of mural.
4.Obscured by scaffold, mural work begins.
 5.
Mural.
6. Fiberglassing buttress roots to the tree
trunk.
7. Artificial tree.
 8.
Contractors begin installing a spongey forest floor, first with
a layer of recycled shredded rubber. Soil, peat moss and dry
leaves will be embedded later.
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