Stuart Bogs Restoration Project

EA is the engineer for the restoration design at Stuart Bogs. They did extensive monitoring pre-construction. According to Sara Quntal, as of August 2025, there are still a few loggers in place there, which BBC downloads for cost savings. When loggers loggers stop functioning out there. BBC pulls them offline since they had enough data for design purposes. The only loggers still in place and logging at Stuart currently are SG3, SG4, SG5, SG6, Baro, MWA and MWB (see attached map in files).  EA will not do any post-construction monitoring. Raw logger data is available from August 2021 through August 2024. Sara will download this past year of data. The groundwater wells might be able to stay in place if needed, but we would have to develop a plan and request ability to keep them in place from USDA, as they now hold an easement on the property. SG-4 and SG-5 in the AWC might be able to stay in place without impact during construction. SG-3 and SG-1 could also stay in place, but they will be isolated units, so likely doesn’t make sense to keep those logging.