Climate change pushed the cranberry industry northward. On retired cranberry bog land, ancient wetland ecosystems lie below, and now they’re getting their day in the sun.
( Feb. 14, 2024 ) The Nantucket Conservation Foundation has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for its Windswept Cranberry Bog wetlands restoration project. …
( Oct. 3, 2023 ) Archery deer-hunting season is underway on Nantucket and runs through Nov. 25, with shotgun season Nov. 27-Dec. 9 and primitive firearm, also known as black powder or muzzle-loader …
The Nantucket Conservation Foundation hosts this walk through the Windswept Cranberry Bog, in the midst of a watershed-level wetlands restoration. Click here to register, for location.
They say Windswept Cranberry Bog is retired, as if all the little insects, ferns, frogs, and grasses have simply moved south. Now, the bog is on its way to becoming a wetland after a century of cranberry production. On Nantucket, cranberries provided such an influx of cash into the strapped post-whaling economy that these little bouncing berries were known as “red gold.”