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National Geographic : 2002 Feb
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ww '. and Nature Reserve, f the land you're walking on According to reserve manager looks dry but your shoes arc Norrie Russell, some 5,001) soon soggy, if it's mossy and people a year conic to see black dragonflies zoom about, you're throated divers (a loon species), in a peat bog. black scoter ducks, and insects Bogs are acid-rich, nutrient- like the spectacular emperor poor wetlands where dead moth (below). plants accumulate faster than Twenty years ago foresters they decompose and water began draining the bogs, po1 stagnates. Few plants can sur- ]uting them With fertilizers, vive in this ecosystem, so most and planting trees, which had bogs become choked with been nonexistent. The society water-loving sphagnum moss. is now turning 4,000 forested Bogs carpet both coastal and acres back into peatland. inland regions around the Raised bogs a different world but are mostly tound in type, which grows in a dome boreal North America, 1'urope, above its original depression and Asia. have been harvested commer These pastoral pools in cially for decades to provide northern Scotland lie neat- peat for gardens and hearths. Forsinard Nature Reserve, run by the Royal Society for the 010' MORE ON OUR WEBSITE Protection of Birds. '1 he bogs For a listing of resources and links here arc termed blanket bogs rebated to bogs go to nationalgeo because the peat blankets the graphic.com/ngm/0202. hillsides as well as flat areas. AOL Keyword: NatGeoMag ", ,.. }4 i. x ADRIANDAVIES(ABOVE(ANDJIMHALLETT. BOTHBBC NATURAL HISTORYUNIT ' 4 \AI I(I\A1 (; 10 R I'III F"I ItliI AI)1 201)2 IV!04 III': .: !..
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