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The CERA Trail
winds through a portion of UMBC's 45-acre Conservation and
Environmental Research Areas (CERA). UMBC President Freeman
Hrabowski dedicated CERA on Earth Day, April 22, 1997, "to
further our understanding and appreciation of this natural
landscape." During the ceremony, the words of Aldo Leopold
were recalled:" When we see land as a community to which
we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
Since then, CERA has been used for a variety of undergraduate
research projects, visited by a number of classes, and has
been the focus of class projects.
The CERA Trail
is a .6-mile self-guided interpretive path that provides information
regarding the ecology and natural history of the area. Numbered
wooden posts are placed at intervals along the trail (see
map); the text below corresponds to those numbers. The trail
is marked by white
blazes placed at eye level on trees. A change in direction
is indicated by a double
blaze. For more detailed information about CERA, and to
contribute your own observations, visit the CERA website at
www.umbc.edu/cera (available Fall 2000) or send an email to
Sandy Parker, Chair of the CERA Steering Committee (eparker@umbc.edu).
Please do not disturb or remove anything from CERA.
"Take only photographs; leave only footprints."
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