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Cranberry bog restoration work a success for carbon storage

The Eel River Headwater Preserve, a former cranberry farm, in 2023, 13 years after wetland restoration. Credit: Alex Hackman

The efforts of Dr. Christine Hatch and Living Obsrevatory at Tidmarsh Farm in southeastern Massachusetts, to restore a former cranberry bog, have recently been highlighted as a success story in bringing back wetlands from the dead.