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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
Estonia
Latvia
Germany
Bog of Allen - a large peat bog in the centre of
Ireland
Boora Bog - cutaway peat bog in
County Offaly ,
Ireland
Clara Bog - a raised bog in
County Offaly ,
Ireland
Raheenmore Bog - a raised bog in
County Offaly ,
Ireland
Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Carn Park Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Clareisland Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Cloncrow Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Clonydonnin Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Crosswood Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Garriskil Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Lough Derravaragh Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Lough Garr Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Milltownpass Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Moneybeg Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Mount Hevey Bog, small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Nure Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Scargh Bog , small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Wooddown Bog, small bog in
County Westmeath ,
Ireland
Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog , bog in
County Longford ,
Ireland
Aghnamona Bog , bog in
County Leitrim and County Longford, Ireland
Cashel Bog , bog in County Leitrim, Ireland
Cloonageeher Bog , bog in County Leitrim and County Longford, Ireland
Corracramph Bog , bog in County Leitrim, Ireland
Corry Mountain Bog , bog in County Leitrim and
County Roscommon , 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
United Kingdom
Astley and Bedford Mosses - peat located in
Astley ,
Greater Manchester
Ballynahone Bog - a raised bog and the largest in Northern Ireland
Carrington Moss - peat bog located in
Trafford , Greater Manchester
Chat Moss - peat bog located in
Salford , Greater Manchester
Cors Caron - peat bog near
Tregaron ,
Ceredigion , Wales
Cors Fochno - peat bog near
Borth ,
Ceredigion , Wales
Crymlyn Bog - a nature reserve near
Swansea , Wales
Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses - a
national nature reserve which straddles the border between
England and
Wales
Flanders Moss - a
national nature reserve and the largest lowland raised bog in Britain; west of
Stirling , Scotland
Fleet Moss - a large peat blanket bog in the
Yorkshire Dales ,
North Yorkshire , England
Flow Country - the largest expanse of blanket bog in Europe -
Caithness and Sutherland , Scotland
Lenzie Moss - a boggy, marshy area in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Lindow Moss - an ancient peat bog west of
Wilmslow ,
Cheshire .
Bog body of
Lindow Man was discovered there in 1983
Matley Bog - an ancient woodland bog in the
New Forest ,
Hampshire , England
Max Bog - a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of the village of
Winscombe ,
North Somerset , in England
Migneint - a large expanse of
blanket bog in southern
Snowdonia in
Wales
Moine Mhor ("Great Moss") - a
national nature reserve managed by
Scottish Natural Heritage near
Kilmartin , Scotland
Moseley Bog - a nature reserve in the
Moseley area of
Birmingham in England
Portlethen Moss - a
nature reserve in northeast Scotland
Red Moss of Netherley - a bog in
Netherley ,
Aberdeenshire , Scotland
Red Moss - a wetland bog located in
Horwich , Greater Manchester
Rannoch Moor - an expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km2 ) of boggy
moorland to the west of
Loch Rannoch in
Scotland
Wem Moss - an almost pristine part of the same British moss complex as Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield mosses, but isolated from them by agricultural land
Yanal Bog - a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern edge of the North
Somerset Levels in England
Americas
Canada
United States
Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve - a high-elevation bog located on a
plateau on the
Hawaiian island of
Kauaʻi .
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
Quaking Bog - 5-acre acid bog tucked into the wooded hills of Theodore Wirth Park on the western edge of Minneapolis, Minnesota
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.
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
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
Joseph Pines Preserve - a longleaf pine and pitcher plant/sphagnum bog nature preserve in southern Virginia
[1]
Magnolia bog - a rare form of wetland ecosystem found primarily in the Washington metropolitan area
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)
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
Spruce Flats Bog - formed in a natural depression following excessive logging atop
Laurel Ridge , part of the
Allegheny Mountains , in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Stillwater Bog - a sphagnum bog in Snoqualmie, Washington. Home to threatened species such as few-flowered sedge, mountain bladderwort, and state-candidate Beller's ground beetle.
[2]
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]
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
[3]
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
See also
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