Drosera rotundifolia. Turner’s bog. Langford. bc.

stevebradford

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Found this old interesting government study of turner‘s bog beside my place. (@H2O you live close you might be interested in this as well) I had no idea drosera were hiding so close to my place, and I spend a lot of time hiking the area. I might spend a hour this weekend just out of my backyard seeing if I can capture a picture for here.

https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/bib82911.pdf

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stevebradford

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Well I went for the turner bog hike today. Unfortunately I didn’t find any drosera :(

I spent three hours searching the jungle, luckily I had prepared last night by watching Anaconda the movie. Here are the pictures of the events that unfolded.

Today I focused on what i figured was the oldest and least disturbed part of the bog.
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It’s about 3 acres of almost undisturbed 13000 year old bog I believe.

This bog is divided into three sections. One part of the bog has been used for farming before being returned to bog. The other is a popular hiking/dog walking park trail. Those I will check out another time.

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This really wasn’t a walk in the park...
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A lot of shoulder height grass.
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Bush as tall as me too thick to push threw.
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That was just the part to get to the areas where I thought dews might grow.
 
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stevebradford

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There was very little dry ground the longer you stood in one spot the deeper you sank. It was like walking on a water bed most of the time.
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Water resistant boots that were very wet but that didn’t matter because most of the time it was deeper than the tops of the boots anyway. Heavy pants that I’m glad I wore because the bog was full of invasive himalayan blackberries.
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Even in the deepest parts with poor soil these himalayan blackberries were growing.
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Slogging threw sticky mud.
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Wading threw channels of water.
 
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stevebradford

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Finally got to the areas I thought dew’s might grow.
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Was looking for areas that don’t totally flood in the wet seasons but right beside areas that do.
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So manny redish plants! :eek:
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Always wet!
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Perfect I thought...
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Still none.
 
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Other interesting vegetation.
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A shiny gold mushroom! This thing looked amazing, so golden! wish I could take better pictures.
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Not sure why this plant was important to me. I was probably going to try and identify it.
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Some tiny little umbrella mushrooms!
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Twisted cedar trees.
 
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stevebradford

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I’m a terrible wildlife photographer!
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Sorry I just missed getting a picture of the musk rat I disturbed cutting grass here.
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Glad I didn’t run into a beaver in the thick Bush.
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There’s beavers here they have lodge in one of the ponds. They made it extremely difficult to get around in there because of all the channels between the ponds they dug. I had to back track so manny times because of a beaver channel I couldn’t cross without swimming.
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Just a slug with a shell...
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Speaking of slugs there was plenty of those.
 
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