You can go snowshoeing on bogs in any season and hit the rivers in traditional dugout canoes.
Nothing is to be seen but skinny black spruce trees and islands of spreading juniper and bogs.
The island's peat and blanket bogs support wildlife and act as a natural store of potentially harmful carbon.
Deep bogs and narrow channels had formed on several wet areas of the route making it increasingly hard to use.
Back on the road, winding past cranberry bogs, I scanned the data stored in my own brain about America's founding by Europeans.
Also starring are Ron Perlman (inevitably), Idris Elba (wisely) and Burn Gorman, continuing his vertiginous ascent from the peat bogs of Torchwood.
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Across quaking peat bogs and through clouds of black, biting flies, we hiked three miles into the backcountry of Newfoundland's austere northern peninsula.
Pre-packaged mac and cheese along with the ubiquitous deep fried chicken fingers, hot bogs and French fries are just about all kids can get.
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As we trudged along, our surroundings changed from barren, stony outcroppings to dry pine forest to beech tree clusters to mucky, grassy, deciduous bogs.
The hard-wearing material provides warmth and protection when trekking through the bogs and heather, while also serving as camouflage for the stalker on the hunt.
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In heavily populated southeastern Massachusetts, where cranberry growers are by necessity large landowners, the bogs where the crops are cultivated are being surrounded by development.
It includes peat bogs and raised bogs, alluvial and riverine forests, as well as complete cave systems, such as the Schrattenfluh and the Napf area.
Peat is formed from decayed vegetation in bogs, moors or swamps.
The manufacturers put that stuff on PCs and then the user puts Itunes, spyware, adware, and other crap that runs at startup and bogs down their pcs.
Bluetooth, a popular protocol for short-range networking, zips along at up to a megabit per second, but it bogs down when more than eight devices are linked up.
Peat bogs are a natural carbon sink absorbing harmful gases.
Sleds have been used as transport in the Arctic region for thousands of years and old sleds and leather reins have even been found in bogs, estimated to be more than 3, 000 years old.
It's really something that bogs down my educational experience.
But some of the companies which are paid to take it to proper landfill sites in the south, simply take it across the border at night and dump it in fields and bogs.
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Mark Maslin of the Environmental Change Research Centre at University College, London, believes that the spike was caused mainly by emissions from tropical wetlands and peat bogs that formed as the ice retreated.
Or the fact that I was fortunate enough to grow up in a tiny community in Western Maine where the only media I consumed was The Muppet Show on PBS and a backyard that was filled with gnome gardens and mysterious bogs where my grandparents encouraged me to explore and play.
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