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Fox Lake Bog

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Locator map: Fox Lake Bog highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeWetland
Coordinates45.6496° N, 85.5574° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island · Fox Lake
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Fox Lake Bog highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Wetland
Coordinates
45.6496° N, 85.5574° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
environmentwetlandshydrologyplantsconservationrecreation
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Beaver Island · Fox Lake

Summary

Fox Lake Bog is a publicly discussed wetland extending southeast from the east side of Fox Lake. The 2006 study describes access by boat or seasonal walking route and identifies sphagnum hummocks, leather-leaf, pitcher plants, cotton grass, sundews, and white pine.

Evidence limits

The coordinates are the study’s approximate east and west endpoints reduced to an approximate center for this article; they are not a surveyed boundary.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beth E. Leuck and Edwin E. Leuck, "Fox Lake Bog," Beaver Beacon, August 2006.
    Locates the bog along the northeast corner of Fox Lake, gives approximate east and west coordinates, describes boat and walking access, and records leather-leaf, sphagnum moss, pitcher plants, cotton grass, sundews, and white pine. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the wetland description and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-08_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Lake Bog”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/fox-lake-bog/, accessed [date], citing Beth E. Leuck and Edwin E. Leuck, "Fox Lake Bog," Beaver Beacon, August 2006. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-05. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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