Mar 9, 2021
ROCHESTER Part of a $285,000 round of state funding will be used to help protect and restore the historic Stuart Bogs in Rochester.
The state announced on March 9 that $40,000 of the state grants will go to the Stuart Bogs project, which part of Division of Ecological Restoration’s Priority Projects Program.
The Buzzards Bay Coalition will work with the division on the protection project, which involves protection of approximately 240 acres, including historic wetlands now part of an active cranberry farm.
Once protected, approximately 60 acres of retired farmland will be restored to historic wetland conditions and integrated within the broader landscape.