mires

With their typical dark humour, the natives call the mires ‘Dartmoor Stables.’

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

Those which still have peat-forming vegetation are known as mires, and can be divided into fens (minerotrophic) and bogs (ombrotrophic) on the basis of nutrient status, which is closely related to the quality of the water supply.

Random graphic of the day: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library 2010

Sample result: risk of total loss of palsa mires estimated to be 80% by 2100 under scenario A1B.

2009 April 23 | Serendipity 2009

Much of our body politic is tainted with 24-hour, downloadable vitriol and indiscriminate blathering that goes beyond the pale and mires everyone involved in sludge.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera: We Are All Arizona -- Now More Than Ever Before Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

Sample result: risk of total loss of palsa mires estimated to be 80% by 2100 under scenario A1B.

2009 April | Serendipity 2009

It took four days to reach the fort, because of “excessive rains, snows, & bad traveling, through many mires & swamps” and high water in all the creeks.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Much of our body politic is tainted with 24-hour, downloadable vitriol and indiscriminate blathering that goes beyond the pale and mires everyone involved in sludge.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera: We Are All Arizona -- Now More Than Ever Before Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

It took four days to reach the fort, because of “excessive rains, snows, & bad traveling, through many mires & swamps” and high water in all the creeks.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

It took four days to reach the fort, because of “excessive rains, snows, & bad traveling, through many mires & swamps” and high water in all the creeks.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

It took four days to reach the fort, because of “excessive rains, snows, & bad traveling, through many mires & swamps” and high water in all the creeks.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011