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| Click on a photo to see an enlarged photo. | Playgrounds - Native Dog Flat Playgrounds SE Bog | ||
The location of these photos is a circular snow meadow with a fringing sphagnum bog running around parts of its outer edge. It is located approximately one kilometer along the track running east from the Playgrounds. The photos are labeled, and some of them are taken from roughly the same location. The first, 2003, photograph shows the circular snow meadow with its fringing sphagnum bog raised well above the surrounding ground level. The bog is the raised area between the grassy meadow in the fore, and mid ground, and the trees, in the background. |
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The following photos are taken from roughly the same position looking
towards a prominent tree seen in the background of all. They are taken in
different years. They and the subsequent photographs show that the
fringing sphagnum bog was in pristine condition in 2003 and again in 2005
with only a small bit of exposed water visible in some photo's. |
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This bog’s floral community included Veined Sun Orchids, Alpine Trigger
plants, beautiful fairy's apron flowers, etc. In some places the sphagnum
layers/mounds were a metre or more high. |
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| As you proceed through the 2006 and later
photo's you see the slow and systematic demolition of part of this bog,
commencing at the eastern end near the track, and progressively moving
further into the bog. The systematic demolition of this bog was in the first place instigated by pig rooting, with horses later moving in and trampling what was left. All that was left of the sphagnum mounds and the other plants forming the eastern part of this bog community was a series of flat muddy patches that in wetter times form muddy ponds. |
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| The last three photos show the demolition
commencing in the next part of the bog. |
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