Taiga

The taigaIPA pronunciation: , from Mongolian or boreal forest is a large area of coniferous forests.Sayre, April Pulley 1994. Taiga, Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0-8050-2830-7 It covers most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, northern Kazakhstan, Russia (especially Siberia), and parts of the northern continental United States. 

In Canada, boreal forest is the term used to refer to the southern part of those forests, and "taiga" is used to describe the northern areas south of the Arctic tree line that separates it from tundra.  The trees are mostly pines, spruces and larches. The climate has cold winters and cool summers.

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 Other websites 

Boreal Forests/Taiga (WWF)
Terraformers Canadian Taiga Conservation Foundation 
Arctic and Taiga (Canadian Geographic) 
Coniferous Forest. Earth Observatory. NASA.  .
Taiga Rescue Network (TRN)  A network of NGOs, indigenous peoples or individuals that works to protect the boreal forests.
Index of Boreal Forests/Taiga ecoregions at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu 
The Nature Conservancy and its partners work to protect the Canadian Boreal Forest 
Slater museum of natural history: Taiga 

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