Trekking into the bog and back out again occupied my full attention, yet deep in the heart of the peatland I stumbled upon a small butterfly I did not recognize, perched on a bough of black spruce.

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Spruce grouse also inhabit lowland bogs and sphagnum-covered woods scattered across the Androscoggin River Valley. It turns out that spruce grouse are really particular about which spruce and fir ...

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.

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A sitka spruce, for instance, on a blanket bog is no good, likewise a bare clough is an environmental problem. Sitka spruce is an invasive species and when found on blanket bog, both bog and tree are ...

But if the bogs are disturbed and drained for conifers, vast holes are poked in the sponge. This Connemara plantation continuously emits up to 1,200 tonnes of carbon annually.

And then Brady's practiced ear detected a subtle flapping in a nearby spruce bog. He slowly led us to the source of the sound and instructed us to sit on the soft forest floor.

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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 ...

This bog, which covers more than 500 acres, boasts about 130 species of northern birds and plants. There is a glacial esker trail and a side trail with a 375-foot boardwalk directly into the bog.