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Wood-harvesting equipment, excavators and other machines that will be used to clear the corridor for the New England Clean Energy Connect project are arrayed Friday at the so-called Marshall Yard, off Route 201 near West Forks. At the rear, massive stacks of wooden erosion-control mats await transport into the forest. Photo courtesy of Aaron Turkel
JOHNSON MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP Obscured by a swirling snow squall, an amphibious off-road transporter with 5-foot-high tires maneuvered Friday along the Maine ITS 89 snowmobile trail at the base of Coburn Mountain. At a junction, two workers from Northern Clearing, a Wisconsin-based right-of-way contractor, stepped into the wind and 11-degree cold and secured a sign and pink flagging tape to a small tree.