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Cranberry Glades—also known simply as The Glades—are a cluster of five small, boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. This area, in the Allegheny Mountains at about 3,400 feet (1,000 m), is protected as the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area , part of the Monongahela National Forest .
While a cataract bog is host to plants typical of a bog, it is technically a fen, not a bog. Bogs get water from the atmosphere, while fens get their water from groundwater seepage. [11] Cataract bogs inhabit a narrow, linear zone next to the stream, and are partly shaded by trees and shrubs in the adjacent plant communities. [12]
Joseph Pines Preserve - a longleaf pine and pitcher plant/sphagnum bog nature preserve in southern Virginia ; Magnolia bog - a rare form of wetland ecosystem found primarily in the Washington metropolitan area; Massawepie Mire - the largest peatland in New York; McLean Bogs - two small kettle bogs located in Dryden, New York; one acidic and one ...
The Harwich Conservation Trust plans to buy about 50 acres of the Thacher family cranberry bog property in Harwich. Ray Thacher Jr. will continue to farm the bogs for the next couple of years as ...
Cranberries are grown in the northern region of the United States on low vines in dry bogs. Here's what to know about growing and harvesting them in the fall.
The native wetland plants that produce cranberries start growing in May. When they are ready to be harvested, farmers flood their bogs with water and send out a picking machine to shake the berries from the vines. Then more water is added to the bog, and the freed cranberries float to the surface. “The season has been pretty good this year.
Appalachian bogs are boreal ecosystems, which occur in many places in the Appalachians, particularly the Allegheny and Blue Ridge subranges. [19] Though popularly called bogs, many of them are technically fens. [20] Bog species include cranberry and blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), bog rosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla), and buckbean (Menyanthes ...
Raw cranberries, cranberry juice and cranberry extracts are a source of polyphenols – including proanthocyanidins, flavonols [41] and quercetin. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] These phytochemical compounds are being studied in vivo and in vitro for possible effects on the cardiovascular system, immune system and cancer.