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A photo of an area of a retired cranberry bog in Plymouth is seen next to a thermal infrared image of the same area, demonstrating warmer water in the pool.

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Earth Matters: Hunting groundwater in a frozen bog

by Christine Hatch For the GazetteMarch 7, 2020

A groundwater-fed pool in intermittent Horse Creek, California provides unlikely refuge for anadromous steelhead trout. There’s competition for scarce resources: Riparian trees pull water and oxygen, and California newts watching over their egg masses may prey on the steelhead fry.

Earth Matters: A stream in the niche of time

by Christine Hatch For the GazetteOctober 30, 2019

The “Goldilocks spot” in a high creek in the Snake Range, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, where warm groundwater provides suitable winter habitat for young trout.

Earth Matters: Science on skis

by Christine Hatch For the GazetteMay 3, 2019

Diverse native wetland plants are already returning on their own to this retired cranberry farm and soon-to-be wetland at Foothills Preserve in Plymouth.

Earth Matters: Don’t drain the swamp!

by Christine Hatch For the Gazette November 19, 2018

Earth Matters: Hurricane Irene: It wasn’t the wind, it was the water

by Christine Hatch For the GazetteJanuary 26, 2018