10X10: Kettle Bog

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In our series 10X10, we examine ordinary places that are more interesting than they might initially appear; and few places hold more unexpected mysteries beneath the wet, mossy surfaces than the dark and muddy places we explored for this episode. We call them by a multitude of names: mires, muskegs, moorlands, or kettle bogs. This time, Outside/In digs beneath the shrubs, sedges, rushes and moss of the bog to find something else - peat. It’s a journey that holds smokey hints of pepper, seaweed, and for peat’s sake, a lot of fossil fuels. Find more Outside/In on our website: outsideinradio.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One of the things that I've become obsessed with while doing this job is the Pleistocene.
0:05.0	That's the nerd name for the most recent Ice Age.
0:08.0	In particular, I'm really taken with the late Pleistocene.
0:12.0	The time in which the ice was melting back and in its place came everything. Plants, animals, people. What if there were a way to see that time to feel what it was like to live just
0:27.8	past the edge of the ice? So maybe you could just describe our surrounds here.
0:34.3	Yeah, so we're in a depression, a depression in the landscape of about 40 or 50 feet.
0:40.6	And right here in the depression, it's fairly flat, kind of hummicky.
0:45.0	You're hearing Tom Lee.
0:47.0	We've interviewed Tom before.
0:49.0	He was a botanist at the University of New
0:53.0	Hampshire who retired just a tiny bit before we recorded this.
0:54.4	We took this walk on one of the few genuinely cold days in a
0:58.7	distressingly warm New England winter.
1:00.8	What about 15, 20 degrees?
1:03.0	I said 19 on my car.
1:05.0	19?
1:06.0	We're in one of the most unique places I've ever visited in New England.
1:10.0	It's like a giant, nearly perfect circular bowl.
1:14.3	Imagine one of those movies where the protagonists are walking around,
1:18.7	confused in some huge depression,
1:21.4	and the camera zooms back and you realize they're in some kind of giant dinosaur
1:25.2	footprint.
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