BY EARNEST WINSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
UNION — Imagine going back in time, oh say, about 12,000 to 20,000 years. You're walking along a trail with mammoths and mastodons.
A reasonable facsimile of this experience will be presented models of the animals will be placed. Missouri-based Chase Studios is making the models for the project, which will include plants of native species.
“It's a major project for this park,” Mr. Carroll said. The trail is part of a master plan for the park, which includes a new museum.
The project, funded mostly through a $400,000 federal ISTEA (Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act) grant, will also feature an elevated wooden platform where visitors can view the models.
“Hopefully, after they go through the trail and observe, everybody will go away with a better understanding of how the area may have appeared and the type of activities that took place there 12,000 years ago, what made that area significant and the story of it becoming Big Bone Lick State Park,” Mr. Tichenor said.
