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Literally the last minutes of the sun’s daily duty as it slips behind a stand of pine trees just south of Big River, Saskatchewan. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest and most important “biogeoclimatic” areas. Also known as the taiga in Russia, the boreal forest is covered with cold-hardy pine, spruce, larch, poplar, fir and birch trees. In Canada the boreal zone wraps across the country, from the Yukon and northern BC all the way to Newfoundland in the east. Roughly 30% of the world’s boreal zone lies in Canada. The boreal forest of our country is facing dramatic changes. Over 600 scientific studies have documented changes, such as changing community composition in the forests due to large-scale conversion of gigantic swaths of land - with a direct association to oil, gas, and mineral extraction.
Here I am in the Boreal (or Northern) forest of Denali National Park. In Russia, this landscape is called the taiga. Though the trees look line they are young, they are in fact full-grown. The permafrost below the soil prevents the roots from going to deep.
Boring plane, boring livery. I've never flown on an A340, nor been a customer of Air France, but from the outside it looks very blah.