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In 1952, Dr. Berger left his position at Pennsylvania State University to form the engineering consulting firm that would later become Louis Berger. Fredric S. Berger, son of the company's founder, Dr. Louis Berger, was involved with the company since 1972 and served as chairman of Louis Berger Group from 2007 until his passing in April 2015 ...
Sphagnum girgensohnii, commonly known as Girgensohn's bogmoss, [4] Girgensohn's sphagnum [5] or common green peat moss, is a species of peat moss with a Holarctic and Indo-Malesian distribution. First described by Edmund Russow in 1865, it is a relatively robust moss species characterised by its green to straw-coloured appearance and ...
This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.
Sphagnum palustre (Syn. Sphagnum cymbifolium), the prairie sphagnum [1] or blunt-leaved bogmoss, [2] is a species of peat moss from the genus Sphagnum, in the family Sphagnaceae. Like other mosses of this type it can soak up water up to the 30-fold amount of its own dry weight thanks to its elastic spiral fibers.
Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species [2] [3] of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat). Accumulations of Sphagnum can store water, since both living and dead plants can hold large quantities of water inside their cells; plants may hold 16 ...
1980 Sold to Fisons PLC and renamed Fisons Western Peat Moss Ltd. 1982 Renamed to Fisons Horticulture when the Fisons PLC acquisition was completed. [2] 1984 Acquired operations of Langley Peat North, Ltd. of Seba Beach, Alberta. 1987 Opened two new satellite mix plants, one in Quincy, Michigan and the second in Terrell, Texas.
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. [1] [2] Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most common components in
There are nine Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. [1] 120 PNC Financial Services (financial) 220 PPG Industries (industrial) 226 Howmet Aerospace (industrial) 245 Wesco International (industrial) 254 Viatris (pharmaceuticals) 310 U.S. Steel (industrial) 330 Alcoa (metals/mining) 362 Dick's Sporting Goods ...