#peatland

[wildlifetracker]

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

[krowmeats]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

One of the world’s most remote peatlands, in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Argentina.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LUJÁN AGUSTI

[purpleweredragon]

“Peatland is the UK’s largest natural carbon store on land, ‘locking in’ an estimated 3.2 billion tonnes - equivalent to all the forests in the UK, Germany and France put together. But over the last year estates intentionally set hundreds of fires, scorching this area to make way for new heather that grouse feed on. All this so a few wealthy landowners can keep the grouse hunts going.”

[americangrove]

Dense Stand, Sunkhaze Meadows

[aisling-saoirse]

Mossy Alpine Peatland below Lambadalsfjall - October 9th 2023

[meriol-lehmann]

tourbière, route centrale, saint-ulric

[girlinlovewiththeforest]

hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum)

[vergissmeinnichtmeinschatz]

man, those wetlands.. peatlands.. you know?

[statelytrees]

10,000 years of wetland history

After a discussion of peatland paleoenvironmental archives and an overview of wetland development, particularly ideas regarding ecological succession in wetlands (i.e., hydrosere succession), the PLE wetlanders spent Friday in the lab analyzing our core from Titus Bog. In one afternoon, the students put together a 10,000 year history of vegetation by analyzing seeds, leaves, and other plant…

[drumlincountry]

Do the goths know about the grotesque imagery of the bog??? Do they know about sphagnum moss and the non-crustose lichens? the moss, blood red, evoking flesh, evoking the soft yeldingness of the inside of your cheek... the lichen, brittle, evoking bones, evoking the delicate vessels of the lungs? Do the goths know that these things grow together? Do they know that sometimes the lichen grows on the red moss, like a crown of bone on a pillow of blood? In a land where little lives and nothing rots? Do the goths know about the bog????

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

[food-for-daisies]

How are wetlands not the the epitome of ecological beauty. How are we not hoarding pictures of swamps and peatland. Where are my photos of beavers and alligators and kingfishers and lemmings!! Of cranes at sunrise!!! Of platypus at dusk!!!! Of snails and frogs and insects!!!!! Hand them over!!!!!!

[tuiliel]

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[americangrove]

Birch Stream, Sunkhaze Meadows