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When seasons change, the bog habitat becomes a patchwork of colors.
<-- Autumn colors in a northern forest at the edge of a bog (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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Trees, grass and sedges change to an autumn hue.
<-- Autumn tamarack bog (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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Even sphagnum moss, the basic bog plant, changes from green to shades of yellow and red in the fall.
<-- Autumn sphagnum moss (click thumbnail image to view photograph.)
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Although tamarack is a conifer, its needles change color in the fall contrasting with other conifer trees.
<-- Yellow tamarack branches in fall (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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