A BOG IN SUMMIT COUNTY ” To the few passers-by on the rec path Wednesday, it must have been a strange sight: 10 of us, decked out in shiny new knee-high boots, blue surgical gloves and carrying white ...

It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the earth were trees decades ...

FORBES, Minn. - It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday, Oct. 17. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the ...

Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news – the mountain toads are making tadpoles. For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...

Explore Bear Meadows Natural Area in Rothrock State Forest, which has a hidden trail that leads past one of Pennsylvania’s ...

The world does not lack boreal forest. Canada alone has 170 million acres of this special landscape. Minnesota has far less, but one 483-acre piece called the Sax-Zim Bog is known to birders around ...

The ridge and slough landscape of the Florida Everglades is a patterned peatland, with elevated sawgrass ridges interspersed among open-water sloughs, aligned with the flow direction. Throughout a ...

Not far from the hustle and bustle of the Tannersville shopping scene and the hum of the interstate sits a tract of land where conditions are a little more unusual than the woodsy surroundings. The ...

The scrawny black spruce trees that push up through the peat bogs of Canada's boreal forest are valuable indicators of fire risk, say researchers who studied a burned-over area just outside Fort ...