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bog

A quagmire covered with grasses, wet, spongy ground; a small marsh or plant community on moist, acidic peat.

bog

an area of peat formation, typically in upland situations, which supports an extremely OLIGOTROPHIC vegetation. See FEN.

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A spokesman for Natural Resources Wales - a Welsh Government sponsored body - said: "Peat bogs are a very important part of the nature in Wales and we have several projects working to improve and maintain them across the country.

Aircraft 'scanning for peat bogs'

A police spokesman said the man was "submerged to just below his waist in a peat bog and sinking further by the minute" after stepping into the bog while walking with a friend on Thursday.

Walker stuck fast in moorland bog was 'sinking'

"The presence of the cloud-living spider at Lampert Mosses has made the preservation of the peat bogs even more important.

Incy wincy spider has hit the jackpot! FUNDING TO PROTECT THE HOME OF THE MONEY SPIDER

Artists find inspiration in all sorts of places and for Laura Harrington it was a peat bog in the northern Pennines that became her muse.

Artist Laura Harrington fell for a peat bog and you can see the results at Durham Castle; After showing at Durham Book Festival as one of its more unusual attractions, Laura's film and book transfer to Woodhorn Museum

Radiocarbon dating of other Michigan peat bogs suggests organic material 16 feet beneath current ground level might have been in the environment 5,000 years or even longer.

16 feet under: finding a matched set of whitetail sheds can be tough enough when they're lying on top of the ground. When they're hidden tree stand height BELOW the surface ... well, that's a whole other challenge entirely

In northern Europe, swamplike areas called peat bogs are great environments for turning bodies into mummies.

Mummies in nature

Marshland, peat bogs and so on are of paramount importance to store water, filtering it gradually into springs which are responsible for water supplies to many country residents, farms, private houses and so on.

Wind farms threat to water supplies; LETTERS

Research from garden charity Garden Organic found more than 24 million wheelbarrows of peat, found in compost, are being used in the UK unnecessarily each year, wiping out peat bogs, killing wildlife and destroying vital habitats.

Don't buy bags, for peat's sake

The traditional uses of peat for fuel and building material was always at a low level and did very little damage to peat bogs.

Avoiding peat will spare vital wildlife habitats; Nature Notes

It was one of the largest private donations of land for conservation in history, and gave the WCS control of some of the world's southernmost old-growth forests, not to mention its most significant peat bogs. Dominated by lenga, a deciduous tree similar to the beech, this wild, windswept land is home to guanaco (a wild relative of the llama), the endangered culpeo fox, the Andean condor, and the Magellanic woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the Americas.

For peat's sake

He said: "Because there are fires within dried out peat bogs the flames themselves keep on simmering underneath the surface of the ground.