Zurich Bog

Zurich Bog
location	Arcadia , Wayne County ; New York , United States
surface	2 km²
Geographical location	43 ° 9 '  N , 77 ° 3'  W Coordinates: 43 ° 8 '41 "  N , 77 ° 3' 2"  W
Setup date	1957
administration	Bergen Swamp Preservation Society

Zurich Bog is a 490 acres (2 km²) rain bog in Arcadia , New York . The bog has been the focus of science since the 19th century and was declared a National Natural Landmark in May 1973 . The area was donated on December 10, 1957 by Lyman Stuart and the Newark School District to the Bergen Swamp Preservation Society , which had been founded in 1935 to preserve the similar Bergen-Byron Swamp .

geography

The moor is a large wetland between north-south trending drumlins south of Lake Ontario . There is another small drumlin in the middle of the wetland. At the northern end of the area is the lake Mud Pond , which is usually covered by a mat of floating turf and which you could even cross on foot, but at risk of death. The lake is up to 100 ft (30.5 m) deep.

flora

The marshland is increasingly silting up. In the peripheral zones and higher areas there are also lime-loving arborvitae ( Thuja occidentalis , English "northern white cedar"), while the black spruce ( Picea mariana , English "black spruce") dominates the boreal swamps .

The plant communities are structured by the various moor zones and succession processes :

• Advanced bog forest
  • Red maple ( Acer rubrum , "red maple")
  • Canadian yew ( Taxus canadensis , English "common yew")
  • Canadian hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis )
  • Black ash ( Fraxinus nigra , English "black ash")
  • Sugar birch ( Betula lenta , English "yellow birch")
  • Fever bush ( Lindera benzoin , English. "Spice bush")
  • Gold thread ( Coptis groenlandica , English "gold thread")
  • Cinnamon fern ( Osmunda cinamomea , English "cinnamon fern")
• Formerly succession peat forest
  • East American larch ( Larix laricina , English "tamarack")
  • Black spruce
  • American blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum , English "highbush blueberry")
  • Tree of life
  • Sphagnum
• open raised bog areas (English "sphagnum bog")
  • different types of sphagnum
  • Torfgränke ( Chamaedaphne calyculata , English "leatherleaf")
  • Greenland Porst ( Ledum groenlandicum , English "Labrador tea")
  • Red pitcher plant ( Sarracenia purpurea , English "purple pitcher plant")
  • Narrow-leaved and round-leaved sundew ( Drosera intermedia , D. rotundifolia ; English "sundew")
  • Large-fruited cranberry ( Vaccinium oxycoccus , English "cranberry")
  • Flowerbush ( Scheuchzeria palustris )
  • several species of orchid
• Quaking Sedge Meadows and Open Pools
  • Scirpus species
  • Narrow-leaved cattail ( Typha angustifolia , "narrow-leaved cat tail")
  • Reed ( Phragmites australis , English "reed")
  • Fragrant water lily ( Nymphaea odorata , English "water lily")
  • Pitcher plants
  • Sundew
  • Oak-leaved poison sumac ( Toxicodendron vernix , English "poison sumac")
  • Gagelstrauch ( Myrica gale , "wax myrtle")
  • Quirlblättriger water loosestrife ( Decodon verticillatus , English. "Waterwillow")

Mainly on the island in the center of the swamp:

• Hemlock
• Late blooming bird cherry ( Prunus serotina , English "black cherry")
• Red oak ( Quercus rubra , "red oak")
• Buchen (English "beech")
• Weymouth pine ( Pinus strobus , English "white pine")
• Tulip tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera , English "tulip tree")
• Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum , English "sugar maple")
• Forest lilies ( Trillium grandiflorum & T. erectum )
• Scent seal ( Smilacina racemosa , English "false solomon's seal")
• Diamond ferns ( Botrychium virginianum , English "grape fern")
• Indian snake root ( Medeola virginiana , English "Indian cucumber root")

Web links

• Bergen Swamp Preservation Society page
• Map and directions
• bhort.bh.cornell.edu
• inaturalist.org
• fingerlakessummer.wordpress.com
• prezi.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
2. ↑ http://www.cgazette.com/Common/news/1998/Apr98news/891887796421.html January 16, 2005.
3. ↑ Zurich Bog . National Park Service. June 28, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Ronald Dilcher: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bergen Swamp Preservation Society July 20, 2011.