as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg

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Recent Examples of muskeg The lakes are two skinny networks of water, one above the other, separated by two kilometres of muskeg. Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022 Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022 Any Alaskan who has just attempted to cross muskeg on foot will sympathize with the plight of the salvage crews, who had to remove a fighter plane partially buried in knee-deep mud and transport it to the island’s coast for pickup. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022 The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface. NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021 That muskeg excludes the rainforest Sitka spruce and hemlock that dominate most of this plain beneath high mountains. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021 Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp. Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020 After a lightning strike sparked it on June 21, that fire had consumed spruce and muskeg over a swath the size of New York City. Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2019 Ruhle lives in an Anchorage neighborhood on Elmore Road and East 66th Avenue where the city butts up against the muskeg and forest of the 730-acre Bureau of Land Management Campbell Tract. Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2019
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Noun
  • Medaka–aka the Japanese rice fish–are only about 1.4 inches long and can be found in rice paddies, ponds, marshes, quiet streams, and tide pools in Japan.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This popular park is known for its diverse landscapes, from bald cypress swamps and maritime forests to tidal marshes.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Brownfield to wetlands: Pima county officials plan green future for contaminated facility Finally, John Leos visited Tucson to meet with some of the folks who are trying to clean-up a wastewater treatment plant that, for years, filled surrounding areas with a pretty rank odor.
    Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Adding to its uniqueness, the city winds along the Mississippi River and is surrounded by distinct wetland habitats of swamps, bayous, and marshes.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The footprints took the deputies through a field, a wooded area and then to the edge of a swamp.
    David Chiu, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • And this is the conundrum that every would be drainer of swamps must face.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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