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Bogs are specialized habitats that form in areas that have poor drainage, stagnant (not moving) water, and a lack of nutrients.
<-- Visiting a bog in the early spring (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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Rainwater and dew can be the only source of new nutrients in a bog environment.
<-- Dew forms on trees in a black spruce bog (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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In a nutrient-poor bog habitat, plants have evolved different strategies to survive.
<-- Pitcher plants are specialized for bog habitats (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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Bog trees, like these black spruce, are stunted by lack of nutrients.
<-- Black spruce bog (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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The "Virtual Bog Walk" is made possible by a Lake Superior Coastal Wetland Conservation Education Grant from the Michigan Coastal Management Program, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Photographs ©Scot Stewart and ©MooseWood Nature Center
MooseWood Nature Center, P.O. Box 773, Marquette, MI 49855
info@moosewood.org (906) 228-6250
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