Bog-à-Lanières Ecological Reserve

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History The Bog-à-Lanières Ecological Reserve was established in 1992 . According to wetland specialists, the term "strip bog" is commonly used in scientific parlance. This term identifies a type of ombrotrophic peatland whose moisture results from underground sources rather than runoff. Bog is a masculine name meaning 'quagmire, swamp, Scotland'. The Linguistic Atlas of Eastern Canada reports that the word bogue, feminine, identifies "swampy ground, low and inundated in spring". Thus, the toponym Bog-à-Lanières turns out to be a toponym of an ecological reserve which expresses the physiognomy of this peat bog.

Geography The Bog-à-Lanières Ecological Reserve is located in the canton of Trudel, south of the Club-Triton station, on the west bank of the Batiscan river and west of the Canadian National railway, in Upper -Batiscania. This reserve is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) east of Lac Édouard and southeast of the village of Lac-Édouard. The main body of water in the reserve is Lake Béatrice (altitude: 355 m (1,165 ft)) which includes a marsh area (east side). The western limit of the reserve is a stream which flows into the northern part of Lake Béatrice and the Hirondelles stream which constitutes the effluent of Lake Béatrice. The eastern limit (northern part) ends at the route of the Canadian National railway; the southern part is bordered by a small lake. Access to the reserve is by a forest road which runs alongside the railway. The general topography of the reserve area turns out to be a closed basin. The territory of the reserve is mainly supplied with water by atmospheric precipitation. On the territory of this ecological reserve, organic matter accumulates there, forming ombrotrophic peatlands or peat bogs poor in mineral elements (called “bogs”). Four groups of plants are listed according to the supply of the substrate in mineral elements: black spruce forests, sphagnum, white birch and aspen. The Department's website indicates that the strip bog occup

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