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Diman students, hiking group connect to improve Fall River's Bioreserve

FALL RIVER — On Blossom Road, in a 19th-century timber-frame wagon shed, a half-dozen kids from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School were busy building bridges connecting Fall River’s past to its future. 

 

The carpentry students under instructor Jeff Cabral were building the frames for bog bridges — lengths of pressure-treated lumber that will be topped with planks and installed in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve to help hikers cross muddy trails.  

 

City forester Mike Labossiere said they’ll build about 600 feet of bridge. 

 

Read more from Dan Medeiros at heraldnews.com.

 

 

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