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Harvard Forest Property and Facilities

This file is part of the Administrative Materials collection. Access may be restricted due to privacy concerns. For questions about access, please contact hflib@fas.harvard.edu.

• HF-ID: HFAdm-062
• Category: Administrative Materials
• Date: 1938 to 2016
• Location: Harvard Forest
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • 1 accordion file, 10 file folders.

• Keywords: facilities, roads, sawmills
• Abstract:
  • Folder 1. Bigelow Brook culvert notice of intent (8/3/2005) and request for certifcate of compliance (10/11/05), order of conditions (undated)
  • Folder 2. Grant of easement to run electricity to new garage and correspondence (2006-2008); Photovolataic project quote (2007).
  • Folder 3. Harvard Forest gating project: maps, correspondence, reports (1989-1990); Harvard Forest long term ecological research summary; Establishment of an Environmental Monitoring Station (EMS) at the Harvard Forest; memo regarding Petersham Gun Club signage at Harvard Pond (1991); list of Harvard Forest gates (2005)
  • Folder 4. Harvard Forest and state highway plans of drainage outlets and revision of driveway, deed for water from culverts, corresponence, permit for constructing a driveway plus estimate (1939-1948).
  • Folder 5. Harvard Forest road project: summary of costs to complete Howland, Town of Petersham and Harvard Forest portions of proposed road improvement; notes of HF square yardage/costs relative to Petersham and Harvard University road prep; sketch of driveway on graph paper; map of proposed road repair; agreement with Skyes General Contracting Inc. (1986).
  • Folder 6. Harvard Forest street names assignment letter from Petersham Board of Selectmen (1993).
  • Folder 7. Original portable steam saw mill bill of sale from Joseph Nichols to Harvard Forest (1928); memo from J. Edwards to J.G. Torrey about condition of sawmill acquired in 1946 as goverment surplus (1989).
  • Folder 8. Poor Farm Road gate correspondence, forms, signage (2008-2014).
  • Folder 9. Harvard Forest fire escape inspection report (2013).
  • Folder 10. Photocopies of 2011 Easement granted by President and Fellows of Harvard College to Massachusetts Electric Company and Verizon New England, Inc. for overhead system (poles, wires, cables and other equipment) to be installed on easterly side of North Main St consisting of Poles P.120-1 and P.120-2. Also, Activity & Use Limitation Area plan prepared by Berry Engineering, 2010.
  • Folder 11. Document between New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and Harvard Forest granting permission for the telephone company to place and maintain underground cable on premises on north side of North Main Street. (1972)

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 12, drawer 3
• Access: Restricted
• Administrative Notes:
  • Former title: Harvard Forest Property Roads/Trails/Gates/Bigelow Brook Culvert/Fire Escape Inspection.