Spruce Flats Bog is shown at lower center. The red dots trace the path of the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail. “Visitors need to stay on the boardwalk to preserve the plants,” she adds.

Alburgh is the most northwesterly town in Vermont -- a peninsula extending from the border of Canada into Lake Champlain.

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 ...

He found himself feeling at home there, and was content to spend weeks of spring for the last two decades wandering through the stands of black spruce. He knew of bog elfin populations in a few of ...

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 ...

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.

NORWICH — A rare and elusive butterfly has been discovered for the first time in Vermont, flying this spring at one of the state’s protected natural areas. Bog elfin, patterned in brown and rust and ...

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.

Big Bog State Recreation Area looks like a moss-covered fantasyland with vibrant wildflowers, rare birds, even carnivorous plants. Waskish, Minn. - With the excitement of birders spotting a rare ...