muskeg

• One is muskeg, which bogs down their four-wheel all-terrain vehicles during the warmer months; the other is black bears. —  Market News
• "Surmont is built on swampy muskeg," Mr. Hansen of ConocoPhillips notes, "so clay had to be hauled in, and piles had to be driven into it to stabilize the plant." —  Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
• Was it the same old bull moose, or a new kind of muskeg giant, as big as a church? —  Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet
• To the rear was impassable muskeg--quaking moss above water-soaked bog. —  Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
• Champlain's colonists of Acadia and Quebec had come to anchorage on a land set like a jewel amid silver waters and green hills, but the Selkirk settlers have as yet seen only rocks barren of verdure as a billiard ball, vales amidst the domed hills of Hudson Straits, dank with muskeg, and silent as the very realms of death itself, but for the flacker of wild fowl, the roaring of the floundering walrus herds, or the lonely tinkling of mountain streams running from the ice fields to the mossy valleys bordering the northern sea. —  Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

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