UMaine mentioned in BDN article on Orono Bog Boardwalk restoration
The University of Maine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article announcing that after seven years of fundraising and construction, the $1 million restoration of the Orono Bog Boardwalk is nearly complete. The boardwalk is accessed from a trail in the Rolland F. Perry (Bangor) City Forest. Beginning in a forested wetland, the wheelchair-accessible boardwalk travels across the Orono town line into a portion of the bog owned by UMaine, according to the article. Ron Davis, a professor emeritus at the UMaine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, founded the boardwalk in 2000 after years of leading his students out to the bog to learn about the ecosystem, the article states. To increase public awareness about the boardwalk and the reconstruction campaign, the Orono Bog Boardwalk will host a celebration for International Bog Day from 1 to 3 p.m. July 23, as well as a children’s tour at 10 a.m. July 17. There also are plans for an upcoming workshop on ticks and mosquitoes led by Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology at UMaine.