Our silent auction/potluck is coming up on October 25th at 6pm, Keith Anderson Community Center in Orono. Here’s what we have so far: Weekend getaway at Miswold House on Hancock Point 2 tickets to the Moscow Ballet’s Swan Lake at the UM Collins Center Gift certificate ($15) and t-shirt from Central Street Farmhouse, Bangor 2 […]
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Boardwalk update: Our silent auction/potluck is coming up on October 25th from 6-10pm at the Keith Anderson Community Center in Orono. If anyone has items to donate please contact Jim.Bird@umit.maine.edu The next 48 sections are being manufactured by Great Northern Docks right now. We hope to receive them by the end of October, first part of […]
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The University of Maine Alumni Association recently profiled Steve Merriam (UMaine Class of ’94), Vice President of Engineering for Great Northern Docks and designer of our new and improved boardwalk sections. This is a great example of a partnership between the Boardwalk and a local small businesses to bring people closer to nature. Also check […]
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Steven Rice and Kyle Pilkington from the Department of Biology at Union College, and Sean Robinson of the Department of Biology and SUNY-Oneonta, recently presented a poster at the meeting of the American Bryological and Lichenological/Botanical Society of America that included data collected from the Orono Bog along the boardwalk. To learn more you can […]
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Retired UM professor, peatland researcher, and boardwalk founder Ron Davis will lead a walk that emphasizes the unique history and ecology of Orono Bog. Ron will start the walk by describing the landscape at and around what is now Orono Bog when the continental ice sheet was melting away, and the landscape was transforming into […]
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We still need volunteers for closing the Boardwalk and staffing the various shifts on Saturday and Sunday. If we don’t have docents at the cabin we don’t sell hats/t-shirts. Since opening we have been depositing between $150-$300 a week into our operations account at Nutting Hall, UM campus. The money from this account is what […]
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If you are on Facebook please visit and “like” the Bog Boardwalk Facebook Page.
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After months of work by over 30 volunteers the Boardwalk opened on July 24th. UM President Sue Hunter spoke at the opening and we had about 60 people attend including several volunteers, University of Maine Foundation staff, 2 state representatives, the Orono town manager, the national sales representative of Lumberrock – the decking manufacturer, Steve […]
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The Boardwalk will open on July 24th. It has taken many volunteers working over 1,000 person-hours since March to make it happen. University of Maine President Susan Hunter will be our honorary opener in a brief ceremony starting at noon on July 24th. Our next big event after the opening is the Bangor Paint Out & […]
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Boardwalk maintenance volunteers continue to work hard on Phase I construction so that we can meet our goal of opening on June 14th. If you would like to help, please visit our Volunteer page for more information. Orono Bog Boardwalk volunteers will hold their 11th annual yard sale on Saturday, June 14th (rain date Sunday, […]
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