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#bogs

Bogs always make me feel better. Toss in a spectacular boardwalk and a massive rock formation, and, well, it was a good day.

#Nature #Bogs #WednesdayWalks

A very long, newly built boardwalk winding through a large bog that gets up to the depths of 30 feet deep. Dark maroon wetland plants take up the majority of the photo coming right up to the wooden boardwalk. Beyond them lots of small pines come up from the wetness, their fresh needles an odd yellowish color. And beyond them is a horizon of evergreen trees under a cloud-streaked blue sky. The boardwalk is built with curves so that it really does wind through the bog almost like a snake.

Not far from the bog is this large rock formation, a good 18 feet high. The stone looks like it has been chiseled away is large slabs that almost look cave-like and jut over the little trail that passes under.

Looking out over a very large bog that transitions into a pond. Plants in the foreground lower corner are a dry maroon color and seem quite content in direct sun. Toward the middle of the photo the pond is reflecting a bright blue sky with ample white clouds. Directly in the middle, between sky and water are a telling of trees, mostly hemlock and pine.

This afternoon's freshly-minted diagram. No caption. Not much explanation. 😎 #Mull #Geology #BogIronOre #Bogs

$A colour cartoon fantasmogram showing a section through a peat bog, underlying gravel-filled channel, and bedrock below, illstrating how a layer of bog iron ore can form under the bog, where anoxic bog-water meets oxygenated waters in sands, gavels, and rock fractures.$

Ocean Spray is a cooperative company, owned by 700 cranberry farmers. The average farm is just 18 acres. #cranberries #bogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h-W6cHWj8

Digital Dungeons…
#bot #bogs #labyrinthe
https://www.theverge.com/news/634345/cloudflare-ai-labyrinth-web-scraping-bots-training-data?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fartificialintelligence

cranberries in Bright Water Bog, Shutesbury MA

Can you see them? One per photo. #bogs #wetlands #cranberries

Submerged moss, pine needles and an oak leaf. Cranberry plants are growing in the water, and there is one red cranberry in the lower portion of the photograph.

Submerged moss and moss above the water line, stems of cranberry plants, and one red-black cranberry in the upper portion of the photo.

Twigs and the red leaves of cranberry plants, water seeping up everywhere, and one red cranberry near the center of the photo.

A long walk today around the Roman Wall Loughs looking at some of the rewetting work which has been taking place recently on the peat lands. Lots of grips blocked, lots more water in the landscape, and hopefully lots more fen, more wildlife habitat and lots more peat safely sequestering carbon
#hadrianswall #northumberland #bogs #peat #carbon

A wide hilly landscape of rough grassland sloping down to a blue lake in the distance. The sky is blue with a ridge of fluffy white clouds along the horizon

A landscape at sunset, taken from a farmyard with a farm gate visible in the foreground, and the sun going down behind a wide ridge with a lake visible in front of it

The place serves a mean hot meatloaf sandwich, and when I thanked the waitress I asked if they got many bog people this time of year.

“You guys keep us alive thought the winter,” she said, referring to me as a bog person.
—Aaron Brown in the Minnesota Star Tribune

https://www.startribune.com/brown-i-grew-up-in-a-minnesota-bog-the-size-of-new-york-city-i-didnt-know-it-was-special/601210660

#Minnesota #bogs #BorealForest #birds #outdoors

In the 1980s, archaeologists uncovered 168 ancient skeletons from the peat at the bottom of Windover Pond.#burialplaces #bogs #archaeology #nativeamericans #bogbodies #abeginnersguidetotheafterlife #columns #section-Articles
Bog Bodies Lay Hidden in a Florida Pond for More Than 7,000 Years

Four new #mushroom species discovered in Sweden https://phys.org/news/2024-12-mushroom-species-sweden.html

The genus Phellodon (Basidiomycota #Fungi) in Europe: Four #NewSpecies, one new combination, four new typifications and a first European record https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wfbi/fuse/pre-prints/content-f1_fuse_vol15_art1

"They live in #symbiosis with different host #trees on different types of #soil, some in calcareous beech #forests, others in acidic pine #bogs. However, one environmental requirement unites all the new species—their association with #OldGrowthForests."

Truly a unique and magical place. Somewhere you can sense the weight of millennia. #bogs #environment #conservation #Scotland https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gz1p2v12o

Archaeologists have found the remains of hundreds of Iron Age fighters at Alken Enge—but they didn't die there.#ironage #bones #bogs #bogbodies #archaeology #militaryhistory #abeginnersguidetotheafterlife #columns #section-Articles
In Denmark, an Ancient Army Met a Mysterious End in a Lake

First foraging outing for cranberries. For ease of access, we went to the bog that apparently *Everyone* knows about and picks over. We still managed a small amount in 25 mins. Tomorrow, it's off to the bogs that I believe few know about or take the trouble to hike to. #foraging #ProvinceLands #PTown #dunes #bogs #cranberries

Wild cranberries, washed and cleaned, in a white colander.

A praying mantis egg sack in the cranberry bog.

Wild cranberries, green stalks about 8 inches high with a few red cranberries hanging midway up the stalks. The green of the stalks is a color that artists might call a troubling green.

RT by @EU_ENV: Protecting Ireland’s bogs 🇮🇪

#LIFEProject @WAN_LIFEIP is working to protect #bogs in Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, and Galway🚜 Farmers receive payments for taking care of bogs & schools earn rewards for their conservation projects🏫

👉🏻https://europa.eu/!WDTTyF

#LIFEProgramme

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Scottish #bog gets world heritage status https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gz1p2v12o

After an almost 40-year campaign, a stunning but little-known UK landscape has been awarded world heritage status. The #FlowCountry of Caithness and Sutherland in the far north of #Scotland covers almost 2,000 sq km of one of the most intact and extensive blanket bog systems in the world. Blanket #bogs are wetland ecosystems created when #peat, a #soil made up of partially decayed matter, accumulates in waterlogged conditions.