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Cedar Bog State Nature Preserve is a fen left behind by the retreating glaciers of the Wisconsin glaciation about 12,000-18,000 years ago. A protected area of about 450 acres (180 ha) of fen remains from the original area of approximately 7,000 acres (28 km 2). Cedar Bog is located in Champaign County, Ohio, United States, near the city of Urbana.
Originally the site was officially designated the Cedar Creek Forest which takes its name for Cedar Creek that winds through East Bethel. The bog where the site initially began was informally called by professors "Decodon Bog." [1] The site was known as Cedar Creek Natural History Area until its change in 2007. [2]
Lists of animal and plant species that are endangered, threatened, rare or uncommon in Rabun County, Georgia are maintained by both the United States Fish and Wildlife Service [1] and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. [2]
Cedar Bog Ecological Reserve is an ecological reserve located in Sandilands Provincial Forest, Manitoba, Canada. [2] It was established in 2015 under the Manitoba Ecological Reserves Act . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It is 1.1 square kilometres (0.42 sq mi) in size.
An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. [1] As of 2021, of the 120,372 species currently tracked by the IUCN, there are 8,404 species that are considered to be critically ...
Prairie species are found in drier upland sites. Wetlands in the park include marshes, black spruce/tamarack bogs and a cedar bog. Other trees found within the park include Manitoba maple, jack pine, paper birch, white spruce, and balsam poplar. [9] [10] Birds Hill Park is home to over 40 mammal species including White-tailed deer. [11]
Stillwater Bog - a sphagnum bog in Snoqualmie, Washington. Home to threatened species such as few-flowered sedge, mountain bladderwort, and state-candidate Beller's ground beetle. [2] Tannersville Cranberry Bog - a sphagnum bog in Pennsylvania; Tom S. Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve - A 42-acre (170,000 m 2) bog in Kent, Ohio
In terms of biodiversity, the only comparable temperate deciduous forest regions in the world are in central China, Japan, and in the Caucasus Mountains.Both the Appalachians (along with the neighbouring Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests ecoregion) and central China contain relict habitats of an ancient forest that was once widespread over the Northern Hemisphere.