Talk:Bog

Wow. Just because I thought something useful could be made of this link, & put up a stub entry.

But aren't carnivorous plants native to peat bogs? I'm behind in reading my International Carnivorous Plant mailing list, so I may be wrong. -- llywrch 00:40 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)

Yep, added it some detail. Also added a link on carnivorous plant article to Carnivorous Plant society and web ring. I guess you didn't see my comment that I was surprised someone named Llywrch didn't know about the great Llanwrtyd Wells bog snorkelling championships. Ortolan88

Blame my ignorance on the fact I live a few thousand miles away in Portland, Oregon. Most of my knowledge about Peat Bogs come from reading. I'm not sure that the couple of bags of peat moss I use in the garden actually come from bogs. -- llywrch 18:47 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)

Expansion request: Bogs vs. swamps

Nice. Can a note be made of how to distinguish a bog from a swamp?

Good question. Are swamps a feature of warmer climates than bogs?--JBellis 18:28, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Request notice removed - See Wetland#Wetland types (RJP 21:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC))

Quick question: I see that you say the world's largest wetland is in

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Blocked Words

There are some words being blocked by the first picture in the article! I hope someone knows how to fix it? Thanks ---(this was fixed) Thanks

Category

Do folks think it might be worthwhile to make a Category:Bogs as a subcategory off Category:Wetlands? That seems like it would be better than trying to maintain the list of bogs, but on the other hand deciding which pages go in which category might be splitting hairs. McGhiever 03:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

about Russia's production

in this page http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/edc/countries/RussianFederation.asp they are talking about a number around 3 million tons per year, far from 90 in the article.

POV Issue

"These industrial uses of peat threaten the continued existence of bogs and thereby biodiversity. More than 90% of the bogs in England have been destroyed." <-- this is a rather heated issue involving many different views. It would be nice if it was re-worked and if it actually showed some sources for the allegations.

this is cool

Looks like http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3942167.stm and http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/policy/water/water/peat_bogs/index.asp are where that stat is coming from. (I'll update the article tomorrow -- I don't have time right now, unfortunately.) CSWarren 23:22, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Making Coal

The bit on the page about peat bogs making coal is wrong. Coal isn't made anymore - I think its a bit of a fundemental sort of thing, and letting people think that coal is still being made can encourage them to squander it, so I think its important that its sorted - but I think it needs a proper geologist to do it so I've not done anything.... sorry to just pop this in like this... :o)

Trivia

While very interesting, the triva peice about the use of "Bog" as a slang word for toilet dosen't seem perticularly relevent or enciclopediatic.(no offense to the person who wrote it, it is inturiging, just perhaps not sutied for this article?) Correct me if there is somthing i'm not getting.ScientificAndrew-merican 01:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC) :)

Interwiki

I wonder why there's a star displayed in front of the german interwiki link. de:Moor is not marked as excellent. -- 790 (talk) 17:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Intro edits

I've removed some stuff which doesn't belong in the intro but which is still interesting, and might be placed somewhere, viz.: —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cooke (talk • contribs) 22:55, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Extensive bogs cover the northern areas of the U.S. states of Minnesota and Michigan, most notably on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. The pocosin of the southeastern United States is like a bog in that it is an acidic wetland but it has its own unusual combination of features. In certain areas such as Ireland and Scotland, coastal bogs are frequently intruded upon by low lying dunes called Machairs.

The British town of Blackpool is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. The water which ran into the sea at Blackpool was black from the peat and formed a "black pool" in waters of the Irish Sea. Cooke (talk) 22:57, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

BOGS

I am currently studying BOGS. I find them quiet specail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.104.104.19 (talk) 21:29, 5 March 2009 (UTC) interesting these whith listed castlesPrisms and rain (talk) 12:21, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Acrotelm and catotelm

Coulds somebody develop this subject on the article? Dentren | ^Talk 09:46, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Terminology

Reading A guide to the Vegetation of Britain and Europe by Polunin and Walters I've found the following terminology:

Mire. A general term used by ecologists for soils and plant communities where there is an accumulation of peat: there may may be either alkaline (fens) neutral (intermediate or transitional mires), or acid (bogs). Following this definition, mire and bog are not synonimous: a bog is a mire but a mire is not necessarily a bog.--Carnby (talk) 09:07, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

etymology

Is the english word bog have anything thing to do with the Persian word bog? which refers to a garden or natural habitat. I ask because the English word Paradise is an English burrowed word from the Old Iranian root attested in Avestan as pairi.daêza or simply, the Garden. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ditc (talk • contribs) 10:03, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Acidic conditions - what's the nature of the connection?

This article makes a connection between bogs and acidic conditions, but doesn't make it explicit exactly why bogs only occur in such conditions. Is it because acidic conditions lead to incomplete decomposition of plant material, or something else? I think this is a serious omission. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 00:31, 9 January 2012 (UTC)