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Effingham =Heath Pond Bog Natural Area= Effingham, New Hampshire 03882 Heath Pond Bog Natural Area webpage Heath Pond Bog trail map

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Heath Pond Bog Natural Area, Effingham
Coordinates: 43.7688138, -71.1131333 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Heath Pond Bog Natural Area
Heath Pond Bog is an outstanding, classic example of a kettle hole bog system. An open water center is ringed by a narrow band of liverwort/horned bladder-wort mud-bottom community, which in turn is surrounded by a slightly wider zone of Sphagnum rubellum/small cranberry moss carpet. These concentric zones are all embedded within about 6 acres of an open leatherleaf/sheep laurel dwarf shrub bog natural community. Scattered larch and black spruce trees occur across the surface of the bog system. There is a greater variety of bog plants here than at any other peatland in the state.

Directions: From Center Ossipee, take NH-25 east and park along the roadside (there is a small pullout) just past a granite marker. Starting between boulders blocking an old forest road, take the trail southeast into the Natural Area, about a quarter mile through a magnificent old pine forest almost to the edge of the peatland. The trail ends at a gravelly peninsula of upland. From here, an unofficial bootleg path ventures towards the pond.

Important safety note: The path can become wet close to the pond, and the peat mat is quite loose in places near the edge of the open water, so great care must be taken when venturing away from the upland. From Heath Pond Bog Natural Area webpage

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