- This preserve protects sphagnum bogs and a small “eyelet” pond, which represent ecosystems that are now extremely rare in the Puget Trough. Eyelet ponds are open water areas bounded by a quaking mat of sphagnum peat. The preserve includes populations of few-flowered sedge, a state-listed sensitive plant, plus Hatch’s click beetle and Beller’s ground beetle, both state-candidate animal species only found in very good condition sphagnum bogs.
- Dystopia (Wikipedia)
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) ‘bad’, and τόπος (tópos) ‘place’), also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening. It is often treated as an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, published in 1516, which created a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence, and poverty. The relationship between utopia and dystopia is in actuality, not one simple opposition, as many utopian elements and components are found in dystopias as well, and vice versa.