Tucked away behind the trees are wetlands that include a formation called a black spruce bog, White said. Although bogs are common in Connecticut, the black spruce bog is not, he said. It is ...

The mixture of red and black spruce, hemlock, white pine, tamarack and balsam fir was a classic example of the north woods. Reaching the edge of this dense forest, I stepped out into an open bog ...

Black spruce (Picea mariana), also called bog spruce, swamp spruce, and shortleaf black spruce is a wide-ranging, abundant conifer that bounds the northern limit of trees in North America.

The bog is surrounded by tamarack, black spruce and other vegetation, representing the legacy of an ancient boreal forest that once covered this region. The vegetation matches the boreal forests ...

During college, I had heard accounts of exotic flora and fauna in this wetland, particularly in the remote central zone dominated by a sphagnum moss-black spruce bog. This unique wetland ...

In some instances, black spruce will hybridize with other spruces, making positive identification tougher. While not as economically important as other trees, bog spruce are still a commodity used ...

Bogs are very dangerous beasts,” Judy Harper said while looking across Glastonbury’s Addison Bog, the southernmost black spruce bog in New England. “Be careful and never go in alone.” ...

I exclaimed. “I feel like we’re in Maine,” Phil said. Maggie could barely contain her joy as we approached the black spruce bog, normally found much farther north “This is amazing!

The scrawny black spruce trees that push up through the peat bogs of Canada's boreal forest are valuable indicators of fire risk, say researchers who studied a burned-over area just outside Fort ...