as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg

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Recent Examples of muskeg Here’s how: Find a tree, dead or alive, by itself in muskeg or on an open ridge. Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025 The lakes are two skinny networks of water, one above the other, separated by two kilometres of muskeg. Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022 Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022 Any Alaskan who has just attempted to cross muskeg on foot will sympathize with the plight of the salvage crews, who had to remove a fighter plane partially buried in knee-deep mud and transport it to the island’s coast for pickup. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022 The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface. NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021 That muskeg excludes the rainforest Sitka spruce and hemlock that dominate most of this plain beneath high mountains. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021 Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp. Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020 After a lightning strike sparked it on June 21, that fire had consumed spruce and muskeg over a swath the size of New York City. Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskeg
Noun
  • The potential environmental hazards also bleed into other aspects of Everglades life, including a robust tourism industry where hikers walk trails and explore the marshes on airboats, said Floridians for Public Lands founder Jessica Namath, who attended the protest.
    Makiya Seminera, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • At the same time, Louisiana’s marshes are eroding, and its coastline is fraying.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The empty shoreline where volunteers worked in May was previously a thick mangrove wetland, before Hurricane Ian devastated the Fort Myers area in 2022.
    Christina Kelso, New York Times, 24 June 2025
  • In the long term, Caltrans has a plan to replace the current road with an elevated causeway that would move vehicles above the wetlands below.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Habitats can change, too; should someone drain that Sudbury shrub swamp, the Appalachian Brown would disappear.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • This prehistoric swamp will enchant you even before the mind-melting sunset begins.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 29 May 2025

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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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