muskeg

Muskeg tends to have a water table near the surface.

By then, thousands of barrels had poured into the muskeg.

It is surrounded to the north and west by muskeg tundra.

But the muskeg pond, set deep within the trees, was a place of solitude.

He bore away to the left, stopping now and again to eat muskeg berries.

"Best I could do is broadcast that story as a muskeg message to your friends out the road; both of 'em."

They carried the canoe and luggage across to the first muskeg pond.

It was all new grade here, a long fill that ran out across a muskeg swamp.

We seemed to have left the muskeg behind.

Traveling through muskeg is a strange and dangerous experience for the unaccustomed.

A week later and we'd have been able to walk across the top of the muskeg and over all the lakes.

Muskeg can grow atop bodies of water, especially small ponds and streams.

Because of the water beneath, the muskeg surface sometimes ripples underfoot.

In areas of muskeg, tussocks form and may collect algae.

Some Canadian troops tried to cross the valley, but they found the bottom covered in muskeg.

It stopped, just past the string of muskeg ponds.

The area is drained by a large number of rivers and has formed a characteristic vegetation known as muskeg.

The route curves northeast to avoid a large muskeg.

The shores of the muskeg ponds would offer misery for campers.

He would have been forced, perhaps, to guide the passage through the muskeg ponds only by knowledge of the map.

They produced it under the name Muskeg tractor.

The moderately dense forests are interrupted in places by ponds and muskeg.

It had been a bad day - the late start and then heavy going through deep snow with several bad patches of muskeg.

There were thousands of tiny, almost invisible claw rips in the surrounding muskeg.

Muskeg can be a significant impediment to transportation.