Dory's Bog State Natural Area

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Dory's Bog is a small bog lake with good examples of concentric successional stages including a sedge mat, ericaceous shrub zone, tamarack-black spruce zone, and a mesic hardwood zone of maples, birches, and scattered white pine. The open bog vegetation is diverse and contains small and large cranberries, bog-laurel, bog-rosemary, pitcher plant, two sundews, cotton-grass sedge, and orchids. The adjoining uplands are second-growth hardwoods. Nesting birds include crested flycatcher, eastern wood pewee, red-eyed vireo, rose-breasted grosbeak, black-billed cuckoo, hermit thrush, veery, common yellowthroat, white-throated sparrow, and Nashville warbler. Dory's Bog and Hunt Hill is owned by the National Audubon Society and was designated a State Natural Area in 1974.