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List of bogs

Luhasoo bog in Estonia. The mire has tussocks of heather, and is being colonised by pine trees.

This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss.[1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.

Locations of bogs

Europe

Czech Republic

  • Modravské Slatě - a bog in the Šumava region of the Czech Republic
  • Rejvíz - a Moravian-Silesian peat bog with small lakes in the Czech Republic

Estonia

Main article: List of wetlands of Estonia

Latvia

  • Ķemeri National Park Bog - a popular tourist destination

Germany

Ireland

Nordic countries

  • Lille Vildmose - a peat bog near Aalborg, Denmark
  • Bockstens Mosse - a bog in Halland County, Sweden
  • Borremose - a raised bog in central Himmerland, Denmark.
  • Hirvisuo Bog - a bog near Oulu, Finland
  • Laponian area - the mires in Sjaunja Nature Reserve, Muddus National Park and Stubba Nature Reserve, part of the Laponian area, together form one of Europe's largests bogs, Sweden
  • Store Mosse - national park with the largest boggy grounds south of Lapland, Sweden
  • Tavvavuoma - arctic tundra with palsa mires, Sweden

Switzerland

  • List of raised and transitional bogs of Switzerland

United Kingdom

Americas

  • Alfred Bog - a dome bog in eastern Ontario, Canada sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario
  • Black Spruce Bog Natural Area - a national natural landmark in Michigan's Waterloo State Recreation Area
  • Big Bog State Recreation Area - a recent addition to the Minnesota state park system
  • The Bog - a putrescent lowland in Saint-Henri, Quebec known for its diverse array of toads and squires
  • The Bog Garden - a nature preserve, botanical garden, and city park located in Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Brown’s Lake Bog - in Wayne County, Ohio, one of the few remaining kettle peatlands in the U.S. state of Ohio. It has a kettle lake, kame, and a floating sphagnum moss mat.
  • Burns Bog - in British Columbia, the largest domed peat bog in North America
  • Cedar Bog Nature Preserve - in Urbana, Ohio, a glacial relic due to conditions creating a microclimate that has allowed the survival of plant associations similar to those in northern Michigan
  • Cranberry Glades - Pocahontas County, West Virginia
  • Eagle Hill Bog - A small spaghnum bog on Campobello Island, Canada
  • Glacier Park Bog - A small bog located near Greenwood, Illinois
  • Heath Pond Bog - a sphagnum bog in Ossipee New Hampshire
  • Ink Blot Natural Area Preserve - a sphagnum bog in western Washington
  • Johnville Bog & Forest Park - Sherbrooke Quebec, a sphagnum bog
  • Joseph Pines Preserve - a longleaf pine and pitcher plant/sphagnum bog nature preserve in southern Virginia [1]
  • Kennedy River Bog Provincial Park - a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
  • Massawepie Mire - the largest peatland in New York
  • McLean Bogs - two small kettle bogs located in Dryden, New York; one acidic and one alkaline. (restricted public access)
  • Mer Bleue Conservation Area - a sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario
  • Minden Bog - 9,000 acre raised bog, Sanilac County, Michigan
  • Pinhook Bog - a nature preserve in northwest Indiana, a part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
  • Rhine Center Bog, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin [2]
  • Ranger Lake Bog, at Bay-Lakes Cub Scout Camp Rokilio, Manitowoc County, near Kiel, Wisconsin, 18.5 acre acidic bog
  • Spruce Hole Bog - a complete ecological community occupying a true kettle hole in Strafford County, New Hampshire
  • Tannersville Cranberry Bog - A sphagnum bog in Pennsylvania
  • Tom S. Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve - A 42-acre (170,000 m2) bog in Kent, Ohio
  • Saco Heath Preserve - a nature preserve in Saco, Maine
  • Hawley Bog Preserve - a nature preserve and a well preserved unspoiled New England bog in Hawley, Massachusetts
  • Strangmoor Bog - a national natural landmark in Michigan's Upper Peninsula[3]
  • Sifton Bog in London, Ontario
  • Volo Bog - a nature preserve in Illinois
  • Zurich Bog - a national natural landmark in Arcadia, New York
  • West Hylebos Wetlands Park in Federal Way, Washington[2]

Asia

Oceania

New Zealand

  • Moanatuatua - a remnant of a large restiad raised bog located south of Hamilton, Waikato
  • Kopuatai - the largest raised bog in New Zealand. Formed from restiad plant species and a designated Ramsar site

References

  1. ^ Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  2. ^ McDonald, Cathy (2009-12-24). "History and a rare peat bog at West Hylebos Wetlands Park". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2019-09-12.

See also

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