Fig. 12. A wetter area of Grasse River Bog between the center of the 
raised bog and Hardwood Island. Carex stricta, iris and a few other 
marsh plants occur here. At the center a fire-scarred snag indicates the 
earlier bog conifer forest which occupied this section of the bog. 
Fig. 13. Typical view of the northern third of the east section of the 
bog. Black spruce and tamarack rapidly succeeding the sphagnum-shrub 
association. The spreading habit of black spruce is conspicuous and 
reproduction by layering is common. The peat is seven feet deep here. 
