Canaan Bog

Canaan Bog is a broad, poorly drained tract of peatland in the eastern lowlands of New Brunswick. Low, nearly level ground and soils that hold water have allowed bogs and fens to spread among pockets of forest. Black spruce, jack pine and cedar grow on some of the drier patches, with birch, poplar and red maple elsewhere. The wet ground lies near the headwaters of streams in the Richibucto watershed, a soft and waterlogged landscape between the rivers and the higher forest.