Massachusetts turns retired cranberry bog into habitat for rare brook trout
Massachusetts is restoring Century Bog, a former cranberry farm in Plymouth and Wareham, to complete protection of Red Brook from White Island Pond to Buttermilk Bay. The restored wetland and stream channel could benefit about 60 conservation-priority species, including “salter” brook trout that move between freshwater and saltwater estuaries.
A former cranberry bog in Plymouth and Wareham, Massachusetts, is being transformed into a habitat for rare brook trout. The Century Bog project aims to complete the protection of Red Brook from its headwaters to salt water by creating a functioning wetland and stream channel. The restoration, part of the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration’s Cranberry Bog Restoration Program, is being carried out in response to declining cranberry farming, climate change, and falling prices due to corporate-scale farming.
Century Bog, previously a working cranberry farm, will now serve as a natural wetland and provide critical connectivity for native species, including the salters or sea run brook trout, which live part of their lives in saltwater estuaries. The project is expected to benefit around 60 species in greatest need of conservation, such as herring and eel, as well as the unique salters variant of brook trout.
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