Numerous insects occupy the marsh, feeding on living or dead cordgrass tissue, and redwing blackbirds, sparrows, rodents, rabbits, and deer feed directly on the cordgrass.
While traveling to a newly logged area to burn slash piles I wanted to take a picture of the forest floor. The trees had been thinned to increase aspen tree regeneration.
The poor soil of bogs, for example, offers little nitrogen and phosphorus, so carnivorous plants enjoy an advantage over plants that obtain these nutrients by more conventional means.
He hid himself among the mangrove swamps close to the Kenyan border, assisting in the training of new recruits. The stories that he was involved in the blood-diamond trade seem unlikely.