
Long-time friends of SVT and avid conservationists Bill and Marian Harman, leaders in the Westford Conservation Trust (WCT), have generously donated 8.16 acres of beautiful wooded mature upland forest to SVT. This property, which straddles Westford and Chelmsford, has been protected and managed since the mid-1980s by WCT under a conservation restriction (CR) donated by the Harmans. WCT will continue to hold and enforce the CR, which was established for the express purposes of protecting the land predominantly in its natural, scenic and open condition, for forestry, passive recreation, and the protection of natural and watershed resources. With SVT now holding the title to this conservation-restricted property, both SVT and WCT will further their mutual interests and the Harmans’ vision of protecting it forever in its natural state.