Baltzer says wildfires are crucial to maintaining biodiversity in the boreal forest, but this is not a typical fire season.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-wildfire-impact-1.6975633?cmp=rss

Chief Keith Corston, of Chapleau Cree First Nation, says Canada's boreal is at a tipping point, and if steps aren’t taken, there will be no boreal forest left within 30 years.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-boreal-deforestation-lobbying-1.6773789?cmp=rss

Chief Keith Corston, of Chapleau Cree First Nation, says Canada's boreal is at a tipping point, and if steps aren’t taken, there will be no boreal forest left within 30 years.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-boreal-deforestation-lobbying-1.6773789?cmp=rss

Further, he states that “Our boreal is burning and it seems that half of British Columbia has been on fire.

Source: https://www.e-know.ca/regions/east-kootenay/dispatches-from-redstreak-mountain/

I am particularly interested in the genera Cephalanthus a group of woody angiosperms with distributions from boreal to tropical zones.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/07/12/remembering-31-year-old-botanist-gabriel-trujillo.html

“It’s been an amazing bad year for boreal fires in the Northern Hemisphere this year.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/upsc-current-affairs/upsc-essentials/upsc-essentials-weekly-news-express-global-hunger-index-periodic-labour-force-survey-prelims-2024-and-more-8985267/

“Our DNA results detected five times as many plant varieties as previous studies using shotgun sequencing of ancient sediments, which is well within the range of the richest northern boreal metabarcoding records.”

Source: https://njtoday.news/2023/01/04/environmental-dna-uncovers-a-2-million-year-old-ecosystem-in-greenland/

The boreal is home to countless shades of green and has an austere beauty.

Source: https://www.baytoday.ca/columns/back-roads-bill/back-roads-bill-shows-us-another-piece-from-a-65-year-old-puzzle-7250872

When it was reintroduced into the New York Senate on Feb. 15, 2023, the bill was renamed the New York Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act and made no mention of boreal forests.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-boreal-deforestation-lobbying-1.6773789?cmp=rss

While our boreal burns, they cling to outmoded fossil fool fantasies of being 'open for business'.

Source: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/12/news/ontarios-clean-power-plan-thats-not-really-plan

With the poor White Spruce crop in much of the boreal forest, there should be a moderate to possibly strong flight of siskins southward this fall.

Source: https://www.farmanddairy.com/top-stories/winter-finch-forecast-predicts-irruptions-from-the-north/804884.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-finch-forecast-predicts-irruptions-from-the-north