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So is the pond in my yard that I created 25 years ago, but then neglected for most of the last 10 years a swamp or a marsh?
There’s not a lot of woody crap growing in it, but there is a tree that sprouted at one end that I’ve been trying to kill.
I forgot already before I started writing this comment
do alkaline wetlands just almost never exist, because I’ve never heard the word fen before
It’s basically a bog with freshwater coming in through the bottom.
There are some in Massachusets, Colorado, Estonia, and this region of the UK called the Fens.
How does this make you feel:
https://www.ywt.org.uk/nature-reserves/fen-bog-nature-reserve
Pretty hecking neutral
Thanks crossword puzzles!
These come up pretty often for some reason.
Especially Fen!
Epee, Oreo, era, isle, ore… Lol
Eel, ole, issa, rae, ssn… Lol
I went backpacking through a bog once. It was quite the experience. It felt so foreign, almost like being in a fantasy world. I have pictures from that trip, and 80% of them are from the bog. LOL
I fucking hate Tumblr users
I’ve never heard of a Fen before
Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?
Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth
I think I have only heard the term in:
- The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
- The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent
I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps
That’s cuz ya basic like one :)
You are not reading enough fantasy books, then.
That’s because the old Something Awful forums ruined fantasy books back for me in the early 2000’s when the big series was ASOIAF. Going from GRRM to Sanderson, Hobbs, Abercrombie etc… just doesn’t hit the same. It’s like going from crack to whippets.
Martin is crap compared to Sanderson
We can go settle this in the parking lot
Nah let’s have a space dogfight about it. I’ll pilot one of Sanderson’s many awesome spaceships, and you pilot something Martin wrote.
So what do you call a wetland that has a neutral pH and mixed vegitation?
Everything is a wetland.
Just from what I found, swamps are wetlands with woody vegetation being what DOMINATLY inhibits it. So if it’s mixed, find out what there is more of. If it’s 50/50, I guess the universe collapses.
And a wetland with a neutral ph is just called a neutral wetland.
It feels so liberating to hear it just said out loud
And me still not giving a Fuck…
i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don’t really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it’s fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.
Help, I’m stuck in a wetland, but I didn’t bring my litmus test!
Sorry, I’m looking for you in the bog but you’re not there
This is one of my pet trivias :) hard to remember the pH for bogs and fens though. It has something to do with rain vs groundwater.
How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?
Learn botany. You can tell the approximate pH from the species of plants growing there.
Neat! Didn’t know that.
What, you don’t carry pH test strips around as a matter of routine? /s
Maybe you can find some red cabbage growing nearby?
Lick it. Just a little bit. Just a little snaky lick…
Just call it something online, if people don’t immediately pop out of nowhere to correct you, then you’re probably right.
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Determine whether it’s a swamp or a marsh.
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Tell someone else you did your part, now it’s their turn.
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- Take a sip. Did you trip balls? Acid.
- Take a red wire, black wire, and a clock. Can you power the clock? Alkaline.
Duh.
