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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Ernest Plutko wrote, "She told me she has seen cloudberries rarely in the 
bogs in Lake of the Woods County.  She said to look in wet bog areas where 
you find sundew and pitcher plants.  Not where the blueberries live but 
where lingonberry and
cranberries are found."


   The bogs mentioned above occur from about Central Minnesota, where I 
live, to points North.  You don't want to go walking in some of those bogs 
unless you are a risk-taker.  Can you imagine walking  where everything 
shakes with every step?  You'd be walking on matted-together vegetation that 
floats on slimey mud.  Some bogs are more firm than others.  One of my 
botanical projects took me into some of the shakiest.  I carried an 8' long 
pole so I could pull myself up in case I broke through (that only happened 
once, fortunately).  Quite often I poked my pole straight down to determine 
how deep a given location was and I usually did not strike bottom.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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