[HN Gopher] Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapes
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       Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapes
        
       Author : dnetesn
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-12-01 11:24 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | poploser wrote:
       | I read that headline as blogs and was really confused.
        
         | pixl97 wrote:
         | Same here. It was only the next time I visited the main page I
         | realized it was bogs. That said with the algorithmic wasteland
         | the internet has become it still made sense.
        
       | theoreticalmal wrote:
       | Protecting peat bogs is absolutely critical, if for no other
       | reason than peaty whisky is absolutely delicious
        
         | Simon_ORourke wrote:
         | I dunno, I went sampling a few of them with an open mind, but
         | the taste just seemed off to me.
        
         | Loughla wrote:
         | Peaty whiskey is an absolutely acquired taste. They taste like
         | iodine. Not a fan, myself. I like a nice rye if I'm drinking.
        
       | idunnoman1222 wrote:
       | Zero real details other than its hard with no pictures of a
       | degraded versus natural vs restored bog. Or even potential
       | targets. I'm very into re-wilding, but this was just two pages of
       | whingeing about carbon dioxide.
        
         | beedeebeedee wrote:
         | Degraded bog is land (it's been drained). Restored bog is
         | wetlands with peat moss as the dominant plant.
         | 
         | > but this was just two pages of whingeing about carbon
         | dioxide.
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         | No, it mentioned carbon dioxide production when bogs are
         | drained because that relates to a key property of bogs- they
         | are anerobic environments. Carbon dioxide is not produced
         | because there is insufficient oxygen dissolved in the water, so
         | carbon doesn't oxidize (and things don't decompose quickly,
         | like the bog people that have been found from hundreds of years
         | ago).
        
           | idunnoman1222 wrote:
           | There's all sorts of native plants and animals that call peat
           | bogs their home Part of rewilding them would be I would be I
           | assume reintroducing species that were lost, but instead,
           | it's a lecture about the word anaerobic.
        
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