By Mike Patrick, Associated Press, Monday, May 30, 2016
WATERBURY, Conn. - They cut through the state’s forests and countryside like ski slopes, dotted from one end to the other with vast, 80-foot towers of steel that help provide electricity to thousands of utility customers.
But Eversource’s rights of way, as they’re called, have come to provide another critical resource, environmentalists say: Little ecosystems have formed in the grassy, shrubby areas beneath those towers, where rare species of birds, insects, mammals and plants thrive.