TIMES RECORD • March 7, 2021
Bowdoin College will be removing 68 trees, all but two of which are white pine planted in the 1940s, to make way for two new academic buildings on campus, according to an article on the school’s website. The college plans to plant 85 new trees, including a variety of evergreens, as well as a mix of deciduous trees and plants that include chestnut and pin oak, birch, witch hazel and winterberry. “The variety of species will be more resilient to climate change than an in-kind replacement of white pine,” said Bowdoin’s Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Matt Orlando. The new buildings will be environmentally friendly, electric-powered “mass timber buildings,” meaning the superstructure will be made of wood.