Help restore my faith in the world. Who loves a good bog? Make yourselves known! For bogs are - time keepers, death defiers, artifact protectors, carbon trappers, water purifiers, food providers, beautiful mysterious places
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You're slowly growing on me. I "appreciate" the bogs for their ecological significance. But I "love" bogs the same way I love cow patties (the boggie doggie pics in your responses reminded me of Montana doggies rolling in the poop). We're getting there, but I fear there's a limit :)
You can pay a lot of money in some parts of the world to be caked in peat. Thought to draw out toxins from the skin. I feel like my field work is plenty!
I live in Newfoundland which is, I dunno, 30 per cent bog? We likes our bogs here: we have urban bogs, bogs around the bay, and bogs in the vast interior few have seen. The provincial flower is the pitcher plant, a beautiful carnivorous bog flower.
In northern Ontario, we called them muskegs. Woods companies would build brushmat roads over them that would float on them. Someone would put a Cat off the road & find it sunk the next day.
I love a good bog! I'm from Nova Scotia, where we have some lovely bogs, fens, and swamps. Here are two pictures taken on the Bog Trail (a lovely boardwalk trail) in the Cape Breton Highland National Park. #bogs
Interesting to see your photos of bog habitat with so many trees. Our extensive blanket bogs here in Scotland mostly lack trees, but are still of much ecological interest including a good diversity of Sphagnum mosses, sedges, dwarf shrubs & birds. Trees are locally common on some of our raised bogs.
Great comment. Many peatlands in Canada and Alaska are very continental and thus they are dry enough at the surface to support trees, mostly larch and black spruce.
I love a good bog and associated #peatlands. But we have been eradicating Sarracenia from some sites here in the UK as it's deemed an invasive species. (Daughter now working in financing peatland restoration. I'm so proud!)
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Hämmäauteensuo NR, Finland: one of my favorite bogs.
After Cranes had kept me awake all night with their chatter, I was looking at this beautiful bog, and had a nap on the walkway, confident that if someone was coming along it, I would hear their footsteps. It was surprising warm nearer the water. ❤️
Bogs we visited in Newfoundland were a revelation. Tiny specks of color if you looked closely, and reindeer barely visible if you looked in the far distance.
I love a good bog, also fens and *especially* salt marshes. Here is one of my favorite photos of my mom, in a salt marsh (1970s), photo taken and developed by my dad.
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Super cool!
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This bog which has a dog named Moss.
📸: Arthur’s Pass, New Zealand, with three Drosera species.
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After Cranes had kept me awake all night with their chatter, I was looking at this beautiful bog, and had a nap on the walkway, confident that if someone was coming along it, I would hear their footsteps. It was surprising warm nearer the water. ❤️
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Thank you for your work!