“Floating islands are common in Minnesota; it’s the size of this one that’s causing all the fuss. Sue Galatowitsch, a wetland ecologist at the University of Minnesota, says the island likely weighs at least 1,000 tons and could extend 30 feet below the water. Technically, it’s a floating bog. A natural assemblage of peat moss festooned with cattails and tamarack trees, the bog is more than four acres across—that’s about 64 tennis courts. ‘A bog that size,’ Galatowitsch says, “can kind of do whatever it wants.“
Residents of that area can suck it up and enjoy their new free bog-adjacent lives. Bogs are good, don’t fucking get rid of it just because you want to look at specific types of nature but not all nature. Nature wants bogs, let there be bogs!
