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The commune of Rogoźno is located 30 km north of Poznań. The landscape of the municipality has been shaped by Baltic glaciation, with a number of terrain features all contributing to the value of the natural resources of the area. These features comprise postglacial valley bogs that can be found in narrow valleys, dales, small gorges and lowlands — and often in their moraine surroundings one sees traces of the outflow of melting glacial waters. The author attempts to draw up an inventory of the postglacial peat bogs in the Rogoźno municipality and, based on a selected example, to present their historical role and ways of exploitation by various people. In this paper, the author presents a possible application of such a natural resource as peat depending on its physical and chemical properties. The author describes possible implications of peat exploitation and discusses the issue of potential postglacial lake reconstruction in order to restore the terrain following peat exploitation.