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
Adam Moss were hired by "The New York Times." According to Wolff in his "New York" magazine profile: "It is hard to overstate what kind of magazine-world hero Moss became with "7 Days" and its particular pop-culture idiom, and what kind of success failure can be." A 2003 profile of Moss in the Oberlin alumni magazine notes, "Concepts introduced by Moss in "7 Days" would later insinuate themselves into "The Times" (take the wedding narratives in the Sunday Styles section; visceral stuff cleverly packaged)." In his first year at "New York", Moss completed an extensive renovation of the weekly magazine emphasizing an