It’s as if you’ve entered a zone beyond recorded time. Such a place is not far. Welcome to Black Spruce Bog in Cornwall’s Mohawk State Forest. More common to our north in colder areas ...

After 21 years of going into tangled black spruce bogs in search of the bog elfin, finding it was confirmation of what Bryan Pfeiffer believed to be true: the tenacity of a tiny drab brown ...

After meandering for an hour, he saw a little brown creature flutter down to the boughs of a waist-high black spruce, the tree the bog elfin depends on for its survival. He lifted his binoculars ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Black Spruce. This species is found in bogs, wetlands, and sometimes dry sites within the North Woods of Upper ...

Cotton grass, larches, red maples, and black spruce grow in the Tannersville Cranberry Bog. The Tannersville Cranberry Bog began forming thousands of years ago. “If we're standing here 13,000 ...

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 ...

The bog also hides swarms of wasps and yellowjackets ... But walking under a forest of century-old black spruce is a very ...

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 ...

For the last several years, Pfeiffer’s search had focused on a single bog with plentiful black spruce trees, where bog elfin are known to lay their eggs. But on this fateful day, he decided to ...

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.

Once covered by Glacial Lake Agassiz, the bog ripples with glacial ridges and depressions (also called strings and flarks) and ovoid islands (elevated stands of black spruce like sandbars in a river).