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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.