Monitoring Plan for the DER Cranberry Bog Restoration Program

On September 8, 2022, Jess and Melissa from DER and I took the 9:30 ferry from Hyannis to Nantucket to visit Windswept Bogs, a DER priority project. The property is owned by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and Karen Beattie, the Foundation's Vice President of Science and Stewardship and Jenn Karberg, Director of Research and Partnerships. It was a perfect day, and we were able to visit most of the bog cells, pause for lunch at stump pond, and examine some plots that had been plowed and harrowed to explore possible surface treatments.

Kate, Jason, two Hannahs, Laurel, and Olivia completed a whirlwind tour and sampled all DER Cranberry Bog Program Properties. I caught up with the team on Monday, May 23 when they were sampling Upper Bass River bogs. On arrival the team split in two. I followed Kate and Olivia who collected 5 samples in an area that was quite wet, full of mature red maple, high bush blueberry, Clethra, sphagnum, and other wetland plant species. Jason with two Hannahs and the Gasmet unit for measuring greenhouse gases headed off to the second sampling area. This area, as it turned out, was very dry and full of greenbrier.

Living Observatory 2022 Virtual Meeting — April 11, 2022, Noon - 3:00 PM