LOVELL — The Old Waterford Road can be a quiet place in the winter. Plowing from Lovell stops at the Stoneham town line, and other than the one resident at the end of the road and snowmobilers, few venture far beyond where the road turns to gravel.
If your winter adventures have taken you out to the Kezar Corridor Lands, a 1,315-acre conservation area owned by Greater Lovell Land Trust, in the last month, you may be one of the special few who heard the distant hum of machinery announcing the latest phase of the land trust’s Forestry for Resilience initiative.
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