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“Accounts of injuries, even fatalities, are reminders that beneath the mystery of a bog’s soft ground lies real danger.”
“Neither liquid nor solid, the soft peat layers formed in bogs and fens set them apart from all other ecosystems.”
“One rarely discerns the quiet, elusive beauty of boglands from above.”
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“Buffering the space between forest and river, boglands refuse to be defined as either land or water.”
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“While small, scattered wetlands are common across Alaska, broad river floodplains are particularly plentiful.”
“Boglands form from the overwhelming triumph of death: the laying down over thousands of years of organic matter as peat.”
“How many times have my feet carried me to the top of this slope, so steep that the bottom disappears from view?”
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“There are signs of old fires that burned through the area over forty years ago—although the vegetation has changed over time, the burned areas are still distinct.”
“In their quiet, playful way, quaking bogs connect us, breaking through age and experience with the simple wonder of motion.”
“But these magical, convention-defying places are also one of our greatest allies in the fight against climate change.”
“The altitude offers incredible vistas of the wetlands that border the Tanana River, one of the largest tributaries of the mighty Yukon.”
“Without them, this vast flatland would be laid bare to extremes.”
“The forests are thick with spruce, their needles a deep, musty green veiled in shadows.”
“Bogs act like living sponges: absorbing snowmelt and rainfall, slowing runoff, and releasing water gradually back into the surrounding floodplain and river systems.”
“Ancient myths and modern cinema depict bogs as sinister locales, dangerous to cross, and fatal to get trapped in.”
“The Yukon Flats, Minto Flats, and Tanana Flats form vast lowland systems—tracts of boggy terrain that sometimes stretch for hundreds of kilometers across saturated earth.”
“These places are wild and rugged, and reaching them often requires taking to the air by helicopter or float-plane, touching down on a river, lake, or hidden pond.”