Landmark Hale Conservation Effort Awaits Final State Signatures

Hale recently obtained unanimous approvals for the two CRs covering over 1,100 acres of its land from both Dover’s Board of Selectmen on June 9 and Westwood’s Select Board on June 22. That leaves the final step of presenting the CRs to the Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) for final signatures. When the CRs are in place, Hale-owned land will become the largest contiguous tract of land in the state to be protected in over a century, and the largest privately protected and publicly accessible piece of land in all of Greater Boston, according to conservationists.