Bog Restoration

The state has launched a new initiative to make it easier for towns to apply for grant funding for environmental projects, and one of the first towns to benefit is Barnstable.

A foundation on the island has been focused on land acquisition for 60 years. Now that it owns some 9,000 acres of land — about a third of the island — it wants to add more restoration to its agenda.

Centerville residents named town, new and old bog owners defendants in the case