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Article: Boreal Forest Biome
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02-01-1995
The Boreal Forest: Vast and Evergreen
Like a huge forest of Christmas trees, the spruce and fir trees of the northern coniferous forest form a biome that circles the Northern Hemisphere. This boreal forest is sometimes called by its Russian name, taiga. It lies just south of the tundra, extending southward from the Arctic Circle in an area about 800 kilometers (500 mi) wide that covers most of the land at that latitude.
In North America, the boreal forest extends from the Arctic Circle to about the U.S.-Canadian border, with fingers of boreal forest extending south into the United States along the higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains. In Europe and Asia, ...