Volunteers give Maine landowners a hand and clear trash from the woods

Kevin Chess admitted there’s a certain primal joy that comes along with sitting high in the cab of a front-end loader, squashing various pieces of debris that will then be hoisted into a dumpster. “It’s always fun crushing stuff,” Chess said Sunday, shortly after rendering an abandoned, rotting ice fishing shack into a pile of metal and soggy splinters.

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