The park itself is a huge open space of nature and forests, stretching across 120,000 acres in the southwestern part of the Jerusalem forests. KKL-JNF started the park's development in 1976, in celebration of the United States 200th Independence Day, and the abovementioned delegation came to the park three years later.
Efrat Sini, Manager of the KKL-JNF Archives: "Like many other prominent figures who visited Israel, Barbara Bush have also made her mark in the Israeli soil by planting a tree at the Jerusalem mountains. Like many other pictures, this one is also preserved in the KKL-JNF archive, which documents 120 years of the country's development."

Barbara Bush plants a tree at the US Independence Park. Photograph: KKL-JNF Photo Archive