fen
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The council said contractors would use machinery with wide tracks to reduce damage from them to the area of wildflower grassland, marshy fen and wet woodland.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
The Sacketts’ property was connected to a fen and, thence, to the lake, via a “shallow subsurface flow” of moisture, the agency advised, making it subject to the 1972 Clean Water Act.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022
The duo had driven up to a small fen in late summer on the edge of White Lake, in Hardwick Township.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2021
Mammals like the red squirrel and water vole, birds like the curlew and plants such as the fen orchid squeezed out by loss of habitat and pollution.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2021
The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled water-courses.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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