The Koochiching County Board Tuesday set a date for a decision point about further development of the Pine Island horticultural peat bog northwest of Big Falls. Yves Gauthier, of Quebec-based ...

For many centuries, peat has been burned as fuel, and the bogs have been drained for other uses. To harvest a bog efficiently, deep ditches are cut into it to keep the area drained. This allows ...

Peat bogs are one of the biggest carbon sinks on the planet. When we harvest the peat from these bogs, we are diminishing an ...