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Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative
(www.theguardian.com)
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To date, scientists and government officials have converted 400 acres of retired cranberry bogs into wetlands
To put this into perspective, that's a little more than 1/2 a square mile.
Or to put it another way, it's 1600 rood.