Vänga Bog Nature Reserve II
Vänga Bog is a large and relatively untouched peat-filled bog. You can walk on footbridges across the bog.
The bog was once a glacier lake but has now been overgrown. The peat layer averages 4 m thick and there is a sand and gravel bed underneath.
For a long time, people harvested grass from meadows to get hay for their animals. A number of older ditches still remain. Peat has been extracted for household use.
The bog has changed a lot in the last hundred years. From having been a more or less open bog, it is now more or less overgrown with trees in different sizes. The trees are mainly pine, silver birch and alder. Trees and bushes will be cut down and transported away in the coming years, to recreate a more open wetland. Many species of birds have specialised in living on large open fens.
Vänga Bog Nature Reserve II
Vänga Bog is a large and relatively untouched peat-filled bog. You can walk on footbridges across the bog.
The bog was once a glacier lake but has now been overgrown. The peat layer averages 4 m thick and there is a sand and gravel bed underneath.
For a long time, people harvested grass from meadows to get hay for their animals. A number of older ditches still remain. Peat has been extracted for household use.
The bog has changed a lot in the last hundred years. From having been a more or less open bog, it is now more or less overgrown with trees in different sizes. The trees are mainly pine, silver birch and alder. Trees and bushes will be cut down and transported away in the coming years, to recreate a more open wetland. Many species of birds have specialised in living on large open fens.