Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky

more bog news for @queenofpeat.bsky.social and all bog/peat enthusiasts: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For anyone in or near Boulder, join me and Hillary Rosner at the @boulderbookstore.bsky.social next Thursday! Meat-eating plants, bog bodies, bog butter and other strange but fascinating wonders of boglands. boulderbookstore.net/event/2026-1...

For anyone in or near Boulder, join me and Hillary Rosner at the @boulderbookstore.bsky.social next Thursday! Meat-eating plants, bog bodies, bog butter and other strange but fascinating wonders of boglands. boulderbookstore.net/event/2026-1...

A few years ago, I wasn't sure writing a book about bogs was a good idea at all. Forever grateful to @lizneeley.bsky.social @edyong209.bsky.social for encouragement and support. And now eeeeks, Bogland was just reviewed in the New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/b...

'A transporting book and a persuasive call to action' Become a bog champion! Check out this brilliant @nytimes.com review of @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands.

My biggest wish for Bogland is that it will inspire people to go appreciate a peatland near them, and then share some moments of bog magic with their communities. Bogs need us as much as we need them. Big bog love to bringing the book with you.

Un-optimized. Moss-covered. Decaying but deeply alive. Reject efficiency, embrace the peat. #BogLife

Are you in or near Salt Lake City? Come on down to the book festival today to hear me and @jasondovemark.bsky.social talk about what the land knows, what the land remembers, and what we can do to reconnect and repair. saltlakebookfestival.org

It's time we paid more attention to bogs! Listen to @queenofpeat.bsky.social – author of #Boglands – on the BBC Science Focus Instant Genius podcast to hear more about these vital and curious environments✨

Can't wait to sink into this book like a Danish bog body. We must re-wet, restore, and protect boglands! All hail the @queenofpeat.bsky.social! ✨

Just a little shop of horrors in the bog — where the plants are hungry and the vibes are fabulously spooky. Did you know that Charles Darwin was fascinated by carnivorous plants in bogs and published a detailed illustrated book about them? If you have encountered them, tell me about it!!

Just a little shop of horrors in the bog — where the plants are hungry and the vibes are fabulously spooky. Did you know that Charles Darwin was fascinated by carnivorous plants in bogs and published a detailed illustrated book about them? If you have encountered them, tell me about it!!

This week I handed my newsletter to the one and only @queenofpeat.bsky.social, ecologist Merritt Turetsky. Her big idea? Stop treating wet land as a problem to drain. Start seeing it as something to work with instead! Read on to learn more about becoming a bog champion.

My passion and complete peat nerdiness for bogs is on full display on this episode of The joe gardener Show. Thanks for having me back on the podcast Joe! Listen or watch our peat-ilicious conversation here. joegardener.com/podcast/expl...

Talk Nerdy goes boggy! Cara and I reflect on my long, twisting (sometimes tumultuous but always rewarding) career, the creativity of science and power of communication, and the release of Bogland in the U.S. www.spreaker.com/episode/bogl...

👇👇👇 A wonderful guide to a vast and secretive world most of us know nothing about. Ask your indy . . .

BOG ALERT It’s official: Bogland is OUT IN THE US TODAY! I wrote a book about weird, wonderful, squelchy wetlands. There are mosses, mysteries, things preserved for thousands of years (people, butter). And now I get to share all this bog weirdness with you. Are you ready to get bogged down?

Congratulations! I'm psyched that Merritt and I will be appearing together this Saturday at the Salt Lake Festival of Books. Eager to explore the intersections between Bogland and The Earth Said Remember Me, two titles from @wwnorton.com

BOG ALERT It’s official: Bogland is OUT IN THE US TODAY! I wrote a book about weird, wonderful, squelchy wetlands. There are mosses, mysteries, things preserved for thousands of years (people, butter). And now I get to share all this bog weirdness with you. Are you ready to get bogged down?

Living Ground The forest floor remembers Fallen leaves unpalm to the next generation Dead wood is busy becoming Beneath us, fungi stitch the dark together Moss builds worlds we miss We look up and call it a forest But down here, nothing is ending

BogLife is about finding people who will carry you when the bog gets deep. Tag your bog buddy. #Bogland wwnorton.com/books/bogland profilebooks.com/contributor/...

BogLife is about finding people who will carry you when the bog gets deep. Tag your bog buddy. #Bogland wwnorton.com/books/bogland profilebooks.com/contributor/...

Folks, bogs are NOT supposed to look like this (once deliciously squishy Sphagnum). Around the world, they are drained, burned, or are drying out. Boglands need our help and we need them. Please join me. Bogs = clean water, biodiversity, food, history, secure climate wwnorton.com/books/bogland

Folks, bogs are NOT supposed to look like this (once deliciously squishy Sphagnum). Around the world, they are drained, burned, or are drying out. Boglands need our help and we need them. Please join me. Bogs = clean water, biodiversity, food, history, secure climate wwnorton.com/books/bogland

What if the ground beneath your feet remembers? Bogs aren’t wastelands. They're time capsules; beautiful living systems that preserve food, rituals, travel, climate, and human stories for thousands of years. Today, I wrote about the muck that keeps our history. The New York Times, October 5, 2026

For those who don't have NY Times subscription: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

'Bogs are messy and wild, places the human mind has difficulty understanding. Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?' ICMYI: read this fascinating extract from @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands via @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social. 🔗: tinyurl.com/yc5smtbn

Welcome to Fabulous Fen in the high country of Colorado. Rich fens like this are named after their incredibly rich biodiversity. Please help spread awareness that these wetlands are far from wastelands, but complex and beautiful.

Welcome to Fabulous Fen in the high country of Colorado. Rich fens like this are named after their incredibly rich biodiversity. Please help spread awareness that these wetlands are far from wastelands, but complex and beautiful.

Y’all. I am spending the day in an alpine fen above 10,000 feet elevation. You can guess how happy I am.

Who wants this as a bumper sticker? 👇

Un-optimized. Moss-covered. Decaying but deeply alive. Reject efficiency, embrace the peat. #BogLife

NYT Op-ed: "Each has its own voice. A peat swamp in Brunei, on the island of Borneo, hums with insects, birds and frogs, the sound crescendoing to a peak every few minutes like a wild orchestra." We should all listen to the boglands. From www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

Good morning team! We live in a beautiful world! You can follow @queenofpeat.bsky.social here!

"Neither fully land nor fully water, neither fully alive nor fully dead, boglands' ambiguity made them powerful in the human imagination"- beautiful essay on boglands and their role today in climate and ecology by @queenofpeat.bsky.social. #nature #naturewriting #bogs #climate #climatescience

A Resource Guide to Western Canada's Peatlands with thanks to @wcs.org @r-and-a-karpan.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social #ducksunlimited

Help me make this year the YEAR OF THE BOG. My passion for boglands featured in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

'Turetsky transports readers deep into the mysterious terrain of the bog' @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands is one of the @nytimes.com's New Books to Read in October! 🌿 Don't miss out on the bog fun – get your copy today: tinyurl.com/BoglandsMerr...

Great to have someone fighting the corner for wet feet or knees. #peatlands

This post zooms way out and close in on dense life in wet earth. Step into Dr. Turetsky’s storyscape.

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/