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

In the dense forest and quaking muskeg it might as well have been in the Congo.

From Time Magazine Archive

But since the muskeg experience, he’d developed a fear of suffocation.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan