Bog Tours
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Anderson County
Andrews bog - Gus Engeling WMA Coming Next!
This beautiful 225-acre sphagnum peat bog sits on the north part of Gus Engeling WMA's 11,000 acres of sandy
uplands, creeks, rivers, marshes, and ponds, home to pitcher plants and alligators,
wild turkey, bobcats, and armadillos. The bog is near Catfish Creek, is inconvenient to reach and there are no signs.
Many natural springs flow year-round, accomodating the big variety of native life.
Angelina County
Angelina National Forest - Boykin
Spring
Seven sites in upland long-leaf pine savanna, several on hillside seepage
sand-bogs, among ancient pines, tall magnolias, sugar maple, are a haven for
several species of carnivorous plants...
Henderson County
Private 8,000-acre wilderness - Site No. 21 - Athens, TX
The lake is surrounded by hills covered with hardwood forest. Hundreds of blue herons
lift up in the air at the same time, spooked by my emergence to the shore through the inland brush.
The pitcher plants, rose pogonia orchids, and sundews grow in a very wet bog, trampled by the wild pigs looking for roots and snakes . The tall grass is flattened where some of the hundreds of almost black alligators living here slid into the water.
Leon County
Flynn Bog System - Flynn, TX New!
Where low wooded hills and hills-turned-to-pasture meet, a very wet bog hugs the northern shore of two connected spring-fed ponds made about 25 years ago.
Clumps of Sarracenias grow at the edge of the water, along with hundreds of bladderworts, out of reach of the well-fed cattle grazing the lush grass.
Tyler County
Watson Pinelands Preserve - Site No.
6 - Warren, TX
UPDATED Feb 2004
Owned and managed by Geraldine Watson, a conservationist, artist, and a legend
in these parts, the preserve is a pineland savanna with a boardwalk running
through it, and is open to the public free of charge.
The Big Thicket National Preserve
- Turkey Creek Unit - Warren, TX
A boardwalk meanders through a savanna with one of the largest populations of S. alata in Texas.
Texas trumpets as far as one can see. Some of the variations are stunningly beautiful.
Site No. 2 - Warren, TX
Long and narrow, with about 2 feet of the purest white sand coating a clay
bowl, and sloping downward at the northern end creating a bowl....
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