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Article: Nobel Prize Winning Climate and Conservation Scientists Call ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... over 55 million acres of Canada's Boreal Forest, an area the size of the United Kingdom ... commitment to set aside half of its Boreal Forest helps ensure the long-term integrity ... s plan to protect 50 percent of its Boreal Forest is considered a conservation science ...

Article: Saving migratory birds and the boreal forest
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 2003 Saving migratory birds and the boreal forest By JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK Date: 05 ... far-off summer home - Canada's boreal forest. It's a place few Americans know ... North and South. North America's boreal forest, the largest intact forest left on ...

Article: Boreal Forest Biome
Earth Explorer;      509 words ...Earth Explorer 02-01-1995 The Boreal Forest: Vast and Evergreen Like a huge forest ... circles the Northern Hemisphere. This boreal forest is sometimes called by its Russian ... that latitude. In North America, the boreal forest extends from the Arctic Circle to about ...

Encyclopedia entry: Boreal Forest
Canadian Encyclopedia;      700+ words ... ... Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Boreal Forest Author: GEORGE H. LA ROI The northernmost ... zone in the Northern Hemisphere is the boreal forest, forming a continuous belt 1000 km ... sun-loving lichen carpets; main boreal forest, with closely spaced evergreen and ...

Article: Fate of Many Birds in the U.S. Rests With Little-Known Canadian ...
PR Newswire;  May 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... new study, Importance of Canada's Boreal Forest to Landbirds, released today in Seattle ... s songbirds is born in Canada's boreal forest. "This study gives us an important ... immense global significance of Canada's boreal forest ecosystem to birds," said Cathy Wilkinson ...

Article: Carbon dynamics in lakes of the boreal forest under ...
Environmental Reviews;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of the total area of the world's boreal forest biome. Most of these lands are peatlands ... systems that are widespread in the boreal forest that also process and store carbon ... lake ecosystem carbon dynamics in the boreal forest and to identify areas of study that ...

Article: Maintenance of the Boreal Forest Rainbelts during ...
Journal of Climate;  April 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... coincide with minor storm tracks and boreal forest rainbelts only in eastern Canada ... the Alaska-Pacific coast, because boreal forest rainbelts in these regions are located ... GEOS-1) reanalyses show that the boreal forest rainbelts are essentially maintained ...