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On an unseasonably warm day January I ventured into the Wainfleet Bog. I had been intending to visit the bog for many years but just never found the time to make it there. The bog is rich in history, having been mined for peat for nearly 100 years. In addition to it's industrial history it also has it's own history dating back 12,000 years to when the last ice age left us. The bog was once 20 times the size it is today, and has some very unique wildlife in there. Not only is it home to the only venomous snake in Ontario but it was recently confirmed that there are cougars living in there, thought to be extinct in this area since the 1880s.

However I saw no wildlife this day. Well that's not true, I saw one lone bird, several empty nests, deer droppings and the massacred remains of what I believe was a turkey vulture. I would sooner suspect that to be the result of coyotes than a puma though. Other than that, it was completely barren and dead in there. It's amazing how lifeless a place can look in a snowless winter but the fact that it was a bog made it even more strange to me.
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*Former erie peat. I worked there for 2 summer seasons 1985 and 1986. Paid $5.00/hr. Stacking 4 and 6 cubic ft bales of peat moss in the many warehouses on site. It was Physically the most demanding job and the most honest job I've ever done. You went home 5pm dirty as peat moss. Go home have a shower and if you still felt like going out then you damn well earned the right to go out.*

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I see what you mean bud, Very dry on top .
Love the scattered remains of what was probably a very busy and active place, and how nature is slowly taking back the area . Very interesting .
I would just sit in that area in silence and let my thoughts wonder on what used to happen there .. But then i'm a deep thinker .

OutdoorEnthusiast
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Watch out for the massasauga rattlesnake

iaminevitable
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great video .. i see your  on the NPCA owned land .. did you know theres a part of the bog that is crown land owned by MNR 

ChrisMcEvoy