Tourbière de la route élevée

Natura 2000 site. Protected wetland.
Visible from the circumlacustrine road at the junction of the D222 and D 43 bis.
A peat bog is a wetland of stagnant water where plant organic matter (peat) accumulates in thicker and thicker strata, but very slowly, at a rate of one millimeter per year!
The eastern part of the Monts et Barrages region is ideal for the formation of peat bogs (high rainfall; relief facilitating the accumulation of this water in the alveoli, the flat-bottomed granite basins...