UMass Amherst researchers celebrate years of restoration and a green exit strategy for farmers December 15, 2020 Christine Hatch and Glorianna Davenport of the Living Observatory dig for a broken fiber optic cable in the newly constructed microtopography. Foothills Preserve, Plymouth, Mass. Photo courtesy: Ricard Torres-Mateluna/Hatch lab Students Alyssa Chase, Jeron LeBlanc and Lyn Watts measure soil moisture along a transect above fiber optic cables at Foothills Preserve, Plymouth, Mass. Photo courtesy: UMass Amherst/Hatch lab AMHERST, Mass. – As the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration’s Cranberry Bog Program released its report this month recounting a decade of restoring former cranberry bogs to wetlands, project research hydrogeologist Christine Hatch and her University of Massachusetts Amherst students are poised to continue collecting data and monitoring the “re-wilded” ecosystems’ progress for years to come.