Threats to the Boreal Regions

With these facts at hand, is the situation in the Boreal regions alarming? All in all there are problems, many of which could be ignored since the Boreal regions aren't yet popular to fret over. Remember, at these extreme polar latitudes the forests, once cut down, take much longer to regenerate than forests that are logged in tropical regions of the planet. Some of the problems that the Boreal regions face are:

• air pollution from smelters and power plants
• radioactivity from atomic power and weapons testing
• water pollution & disruption of habitats if commercialization of a northern shipping routes become a reality
• adverse impact of new mineral and oil/gas extraction
• new threats to endangered species

 The taiga or boreal forest exist as coniferous belt of trees across North American and Eurasia, with overly formerly glaciated areas patchy permafrost on both continents. Taiga is the Russian name for this forest which covers so much of the country.  The climate in the taiga region is very cold and long severe winters that last up to six months. With short summers and very low evaporation rates this is a humid climate. It vary in much amount of vegetation such as needleleaf and coniferous trees that dominant plants of the taiga biome. A few of these species are found: the evergreen spruce, fir and pine, and the shedding of the leaves larch or tamarack.

The North American boreal forest offers breeding grounds to over 200 bird species as such as Caribou, Lynx, Black Bear, Moose, Coyote, Timber wolf and recovering population of Wood Bison.

Wood Bison