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Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapes

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Zero real details other than its hard with no pictures of a degraded versus natural vs restored bog. Or even potential targets. I’m very into re-wilding, but this was just two pages of whingeing about carbon dioxide.

Degraded bog is land (it's been drained). Restored bog is wetlands with peat moss as the dominant plant.

> but this was just two pages of whingeing about carbon dioxide.

No, it mentioned carbon dioxide production when bogs are drained because that relates to a key property of bogs- they are anerobic environments. Carbon dioxide is not produced because there is insufficient oxygen dissolved in the water, so carbon doesn't oxidize (and things don't decompose quickly, like the bog people that have been found from hundreds of years ago).

There’s all sorts of native plants and animals that call peat bogs their home Part of rewilding them would be I would be I assume reintroducing species that were lost, but instead, it’s a lecture about the word anaerobic.

Protecting peat bogs is absolutely critical, if for no other reason than peaty whisky is absolutely delicious

I dunno, I went sampling a few of them with an open mind, but the taste just seemed off to me.

Peaty whiskey is an absolutely acquired taste. They taste like iodine. Not a fan, myself. I like a nice rye if I'm drinking.

I wonder how much peaty whiskey can be produced sustainably. Peat moss grows extremely slowly.

I read that headline as blogs and was really confused.

Same here. It was only the next time I visited the main page I realized it was bogs. That said with the algorithmic wasteland the internet has become it still made sense.

The article explains that it's talking about turning degraded bogs into healthy bogs, but the title seems to imply that the fundamental bleak essence of a natural bog makes it a wasteland and that this is a problem to be fixed.

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