Sentences with word «muskeg»

Hikers can choose between a day hike or a backpacking excursion to explore the sandy beaches, rainforests and lowland bogs and muskeg of this wilderness park.

If Stephen had been running a business today, odds are good he'd have sold to a U.S. hedge fund lured north by the cheap loonie, leaving behind a half - finished construction job stalled somewhere in the Manitoba muskeg.

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.

Where drainage is poor, a unique bog - like habitat called muskeg dominates.

The Boreal owl lives in boreal forests and muskegs across Alaska and the northern parts of he continent.

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has killed numerous animals and contaminated a lake, forest, and muskeg at its operations in Cold Lake, Alta.

One person once responded to my argument by pointing out how deep the soil is in permafrost and muskeg areas, and I replied by asking if they were thus proposing to grow wheat vertically.

Visitors can choose between a day hike or a backpacking excursion to explore the sandy beaches, rainforests, and lowland bogs and muskeg of this wilderness park.

The leaves are yellow, the muskeg is on fire with reds and oranges, and we've been wearing our woolies.

Rather than stumbling exhausted through the Juneau airport, their first steps on Alaskan soil would be in XtraTufs through the muskeg in Manzanita Bay.

A hike in the muskeg habitat reveals an amazing array of unique flora including carnivorous plants.

Strip mining requires huge areas to be cleared of trees, then the water is drained from the muskeg and it, too, is dug up and hauled away.

That's why Canada isn't an agricultural super-power in proportion to her surface area — muskeg and rock make for tough rooting.

The reef will «just» move poleward, This is about like not worrying how farming will be able to move to the wonderful glacial till, shield rock, and muskeg «soils» as more southerly areas become too warm to grow certain crops effectively.

In June 2013, a pipeline released 15.4 million liters of oil and toxic produced water into the muskeg, contaminating a 42 - hectare (approximately 104 - acre) span of boreal forest.