Chat Moss along with Risley Moss and Holcroft Moss, is also a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation, known as Manchester Mosses. The major habitats in the moss are bog, heathland, woodland and acidic grassland, subject to varying degrees of wetness depending on the local drainage. The remaining areas of bog are dominated by common cottongrass "Eriophorum angustifolium" and hare's-tail cottongrass "E. vaginatum". Bog mosses are more scarce, but "Sphagnum cuspidatum", "S. recurvum", "S. tenellum", "S. fimbriatum" and "S. subnitens" occur in patches. As the peat has become drier, areas have been taken over by purple moor grass "Molinia caerulea" and
Howard Moss addition of ancient texts. Morten Lauridsen's "A Winter Come" (1967) is a setting of six poems of Howard Moss for high voice and piano, while Francis Thorne's "Nature Studies: Three Poems of Howard Moss" (1981) is for mezzo-soprano, flute and harp. Howard Moss Howard Moss (January 22, 1922 – September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic. He was poetry editor of "The New Yorker" magazine from 1948 until his death and he won the National Book Award in 1972 for "Selected Poems". Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he