Downhill - Dellovo Conservation Area Traditional Cache
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Downhill - Dellovo Conservation Area
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Nice wide open trails and plenty of parking at the trail head on route 62. This happens to be right off of the Massport Trail System also. Please replace the cache as found as it's right on the trail.
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Dellovo
The acquisition of Webber and Vanderhoof was followed by the purchase of the Dellovo parcel in 1991. The purchase added 15 acres to the protective buffer between Hanscom Field and the south Bedford neighborhoods. The Dellovo land is located just east of Concord Road on the east-west railroad bed/bikepath. A short trail leads from the railroad bed through a poplar grove and red maple swamp to the edge of an open, grassy meadow. Once ditched and maintained in horticulture, the wetlands on the site have since reverted to wet meadow and shrub swamp. Native sedges and wetland grasses intermingle with wetland shrubs, silver maple, wild rose and ferns. This part of Bedford is distinguished by a wide variety of native plant species, documented by a botanical list developed by the conservation area's Land Steward. Worthwhile management activities would include control of shrubs and saplings in order to maintain wet meadow habitat.
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