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Big Bog State Park Project
“We will work with the people of Minnesota to manage Park Facilities and Activities Park infrastructure is currently in the development and construction phase. Development plans include modern campgrounds, bogwalks, upgraded beach and day use area, and a new visitors recreation center.
*Part of this vast peatland is the Maurice O'Link unit, gifted in memory of Maurice O'Link.
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The
Red Lake Peatland contains
the largest, most diversely patterned
peatland in the United States. It lies in the middle of the Agassiz
Lowland landscape region in the north central part of the state. Over 50
miles long and 12 miles wide, the big bog, as it is called, features the
largest, best developed water track in the United States. The area
contains ovoid islands, circular islands, raised bogs, and every pattern
of fen feature—tear drop islands, circular islands, and ribbed fens.
Transitions in these surface patterns are of international significance
in the effort to understand peatland features and succession. Trails
used by caribou in their migration to Canada's calving grounds can still
be seen, though the last migration took place in the 1930s. A portion of
the area has been designated a National Natural Landmark. 
including the greater Sandhill Crane.
Mountain
yellow-eyed grass, rare rushes. Sundews are carnivorous: an insect
becomes stuck among the resin-tipped hairs on a leaf, and then the leaf
curls in around the insect to digest it. Look carefully for sundews -
this entire plant is only about 1 inch across.
drown
in rainwater accumulated inside. Many of the species found in the bog
are specially adapted to compete in the constantly wet and acidic
conditions. Two strategies for plants dealing with nutrient-poor soils: carnivore
& evergreen.
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