Earth Day celebrated with bog restoration in Plymouth
PLYMOUTH – It may just be the ultimate Earth Day project. Volunteers this week pitched in to help plant some 500 trees and shrubs along a meandering stream bed that just two months ago was a man-made pond feeding old cranberry bogs. Alissa Young, the property manager for Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Manomet, acknowledges it looks a bit like a war zone today, with stumps and brush scattered in piles across the muddy landscape. But in just a few weeks, the property at 60 Beaver Dam Road should already start looking better. And before long, visitors to the nature trail system will have troub...