boreal forest

[′bȯr·ē·əl ′fär·əst]

(ecology)

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As pointed out by the free-market environmentalist Larry Solomon of Energy Probe, the "Boreal Conservation Framework" actually amounts to a massive resource giveaway requiring government subsidies, as industrial development in the far northern boreal forest is currently uneconomic under market conditions.

Scouring scum and tar from the bottom of the pit: energy junkies desperately seeking one last oil fix in Canada's boreal forest

But many regions in the boreal forest (see Nuts & Bolts, p.

Vanishing forest: a northern forest is disappearing at a rapid pace--that spells trouble for billions of animals

Interestingly, these leaders are also working collectively as partners under the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework--an ambitious national vision for balancing protection and development across Canada's vast boreal region.

Celebrating forest conservation

What sort of name is this for a boreal forest species, you ask?

Boreal birds: Adirondack "islands" of boreal forests harbor northern life

David Schindler thinks Canada's boreal forest could be gone in 50 years.

Going, going ... (Forests)

Most scaup and scoters, along with many other species of waterfowl and migratory songbirds, wing their way north to Canada's boreal forest each spring to breed.

The Case of the Disappearing Ducks - Why are scaup and scoters in decline when other waterfowl are on the rise? The answer may lie in Canada's remote boreal forest

In North America, the typical climate of the open boreal forest with lichens, the coldest boreal forest, ranges from the conditions at Lake Cree (Saskatchewan), where the average annual temperature is 27[degrees]F (-2.7[degrees]C) and the precipitation is 16 in (414 mm), to those at Nitchequon, Quebec, which is wetter and where the average annual temperature is 25[degrees]F (-4.1[degrees]C) and the average annual precipitation is 31 in (783 mm).

The boreal conifer forests or taiga

Key words: aspen; balsam fir, boreal forest disturbance regimes; canopy gaps; dendroecology; forest fire; forest succession; mixed woods; old-growth forest; post-disturbance species dynamics; spruce budworm; stand dynamics, southern Quebec boreal forest.

SPECIES AND STAND DYNAMICS IN THE MIXED WOODS OF QUEBEC'S SOUTHERN BOREAL FOREST

The boreal forest that covers nearly a third of Alaska is already drier and thus more at risk.

Baked Alaska

Plants of the Western Boreal Forest is third in a series of guidebooks published in a similar format and prepared by overlapping sets of authors, in particular, Andy MacKinnon and Jim and Rosamend Pojar.

Plants of the Western Boreal Forest and Aspen parkland

Canadian logging, incidentally, is not much different from that of its neighbor, the United States, which owns huge tracts of boreal forest in Alaska.