Soumar bog

The Soumar bog is one of the many bogs that line the Vltava river in a wide valley called the Vltava plain. The 85 ha peatland at Soumarské Most has been developing since the end of the Ice Age. However, in the last few decades, the appearance of the bog has changed radically. This is due to the industrial extraction of peat, which took place here for several decades. The whole peatland was drained by a net…