A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): Peat fires can be a common occurrence during a dry Minnesota summer. They are normally rare in the middle of the winter, ...

Call them swamps, bogs, fens — whatever you want. They go by many names and are often called peatlands. Only recently have we begun to appreciate peat. Locked away in that soggy soil under ankle ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is charged with protecting the nation’s aquatic resources. Earlier this month, it granted permission for Minnesota Pipe Line to cross 51 miles of wetlands ...

and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps. These bogs vary in depth from a few feet to several yards, and are, in general too soft for the foot of ...