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. The ...

Welcome to Black Spruce Bog in Cornwall’s Mohawk State Forest. More common to our north in colder areas, bogs are rare in Connecticut, found mostly in the state’s northwest.

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 ...

Bog elfin are notoriously tricky to find because they spend most of their life high in the canopy of the black spruce, but after walking around the bog for an hour or so, Pfeiffer noticed a tiny ...

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.

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 ...

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.