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 ...

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 land, near the corner of Main Road and Greenleaf Road, is primarily a black spruce bog — Maine’s most common type of forested bog but a rare habitat type in Midcoast Maine, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Deer and the occasional groundhog or black bear are spotted around the perimeter. But is it really a bog, or is it a fen? Just as early loggers called the Laurel Ridge hemlocks “spruce,” the ...

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 ...

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!