Image: Healthy pocosin wetlands (7537178348)
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Description: Beneath forests of pond pines, white cedars and a dense shrub understory, the chocolate-colored soils are layered with thousands of years of slowly decaying organic material. The most precious ingredient in these pocosins, or peatlands, is the carbon-rich peat soil. Photo: Dale Suiter, USFWS. www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2012/038.html
Title: Healthy pocosin wetlands (7537178348)
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Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
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