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NY 14. Moss Lake Bog. Acreage: 84. (About 30 acres are open water and bog.) 



Location: Allegany County; Houghton Quadrangle; about 2 miles SW of 

 Houghton; reached via Rt. 19 or Rt. 243 and Sand Hill Rd. 



Description: A small lake is surrounded by a typical floating sphagnum bog, 

 within which may be found blueberry, bog club moss, bog laurel, bog rosemary, 

 cotton grass, leatherleaf, pitcherplant, Utricularia, rose pogonia, pondweed, 

 smartweed, round-leafed and spatulate-leafed sundews, white water lily, and yel- 

 low cowlily. 



Encroachments: A gravel pit has been worked about 2000 ft east of the 

 preserve, which is now owned by TNC. 



Ownership: TNC. 



Data source: TNC; R. H. Goodwin, Box 1445, Connecticut College, New Lon- 

 don, Conn. 06320. 



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