"The story of a forest "lost" by a surveying error-- and all the flora and fauna to be found there A forest, of course, doesn't need a map to know where to grow. But people need a map to find it. And in 1882 when surveyors set out to map a part of Minnesota, they got confused, or tired and cold (it was November), and somehow mapped a great swath of ancient trees as a lake. For more than seventy-five years, the mistake stayed on the map, and the forest...

Introduces the inhabitants of Minnesota's peat bogs, explains methane gas production, and imagines what a bog's burp must sound like.