21. Water is easily polluted because the water table reaches the surface in most areas of muskeg . 22. Pleasant Island is fairly flat and has a mixture of old-growth forest and muskeg . 23. The shoreline is characterized by steeply sloping irregular rock ridges and poorly drained areas of muskeg . 24. Other names for bogs include mire, quagmire, and muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens. 25. The topography of the region is very flat, dotted with numerous small lakes and muskeg bogs. 26. This model became the standard for geophysical work in the muskeg country of Northern Canada and Alaska. 27. It descends through a wide muskeg , after which it is crossed by several power transmission lines. 28. A member of the Muskeg Lake First Nation, he grew up in Quesnel, British Columbia. 29. The ice thawed in June, and biting flies rose in black clouds from the surrounding muskeg bogs. 30. Firefighters needed two hours to control the blaze in the Albian Sands Muskeg River mine after the explosion.