muskeg

Example Sentences

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He said it was burning along the surface of the ground through the aftermath of the former blaze and had much less fuel, and that muskeg was generating the smoke noticed by locals.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

There are no ATMs, hospitals, banks or grocery stores in this wilderness of taiga, deciduous and muskeg forest.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2016

Will the coordinates direct us to climb steep slopes or traipse through wet muskeg?

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2012

After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe five miles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer