Canadas Boreal Forest

Author : HENRY DAVID J
Publisher : Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:49015002813518

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CANADAS BOREAL FOREST by HENRY DAVID J Pdf

In Canada alone, the boreal forest (also called the taiga) covers more than 1.5 million square miles, fully one-third of the country and 20 percent of the entire North American continent. Terminating to the north with the treeless tundra, this region is inhabited and utilized by indigenous people and is home to unique populations of plants and animals found nowhere else on the planet. J. David Henry challenges the perception of the boreal forest as an "economic wasteland" by explaining how economically and ecologically valuable it is. He begins by answering some common questions about the region and explains its intricate geology. An in-depth examination follows of three factors that play an enormous role in shaping the complex life of the boreal forest: snow, forest fires, and peatlands. Henry looks at the dynamics of the region's vegetation and the evolution of its animals, and discusses the fascinating ten-year predator-prey cycle of snowshoe hares and Canadian lynx, one of the most famous examples of ecological interconnection. In Canada's boreal forest, loggers have clear cut an area the size of Great Britain. The final portion of the book examines initiatives from Scandinavia and Finland in order to offer alternatives to large-scale logging and mining, suggesting how humans can live and work in the boreal forest in a sustainable and responsible manner.

Author : L. E. Carmichael
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781525300448

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The Boreal Forest by L. E. Carmichael Pdf

A unique look at the boreal forest, Earth’s vast and vital wilderness. The boreal forest, the planet’s largest land biome, spans the northern regions like “a scarf around the neck of the world.” Besides providing homes for many species, the forest’s influence is far-reaching: its trees and wetlands clean our air and water and are helping slow global climate change. In this evocative tour, a lyrical fictional narrative is paired with informational sidebars that describe life in the forest throughout the year, from one country to another. One of the world’s most magnificent regions comes to vivid life through the art of storytelling.

Author : Robin James Marles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 0774807385

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Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest by Robin James Marles Pdf

To compile this book the authors, along with seven other First Nation trainees, five Métis trainees, and four other botany students, learned how to collect voucher plant specimens and record traditional knowledge about the use of plants for medicine, handicrafts, technology, and ritual practices. Over 100 elders contributed information that they felt should be shared among communities.

Author : Trina Moyles
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735279919

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Lookout by Trina Moyles Pdf

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job. Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.

Author : Canadian Boreal Initiative
Publisher : Ottawa: Canadian Boreal Initiative
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02383609L

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L'enjeu boréal : assurer l'avenir de la région boreale au Canada by Canadian Boreal Initiative Pdf

In concert with the members of the council, the CBI created and launched the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework - a vision for the protection and sustainable development of Canada's entire Boreal ecosystem. [...] The Framework's goal is to conserve the natural, cultural and sustainable economic values of the Boreal region by protecting about half of the region in a comprehensive network of protected areas and promoting world-leading industrial practices on the remainder of the landscape where appropriate. [...] The southern fringe includes the mixed forests of the southern Boreal shield in the east and Boreal forest-prairie-parkland habitats in the west. [...] In the northern Boreal region is the taiga, an ecological crossroads between the forests to the south and the tundra to the north. [...] Although many Aboriginal people continue to about lumberjacks, Mounties, dogsled rely on the Boreal forest for their cultural and economic survival, teams, snowmobiles, hockey on a frozen most have not benefited from the development of its natural pond, the howl of the wolf and the cry of the resources, which accounts for billions of dollars of revenue and a loon?

Author : Peter J. Blancher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Taigas
ISBN : 0662432355

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Canada's Boreal Forest by Peter J. Blancher Pdf

Author : National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada). Boreal Forest Program Task Force
Publisher : National Round Table
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D023937287

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Boreal Futures by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada). Boreal Forest Program Task Force Pdf

This report presents the findings & recommendations of the Boreal Forest Program, established to examine how to advance conservation in balance with economic activity on public lands allocated for resource development in Canada's boreal forest area. After an introduction on the Program and the research approach for this report, section 2 outlines the ecological, economic, & social importance of Canada's boreal area and considers international & domestic trends affecting its future. Section 3 identifies opportunities for governance action by governments, industry, Aboriginal & community groups, and civil society organizations under four interrelated policy areas to promote conservation in the boreal in balance with economic development, and summarizes the debate on these key issues. The final section presents a set of observations on the Program findings.

Author : Ken Drushka,Forest History Society
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0773526617

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Canada's Forests by Ken Drushka,Forest History Society Pdf

The canadian forest. Early forest use. Industrialization of the forests. The rise of forest conservation. Sustainable forest management.

Author : Mark Peter Anielski,Sara Justine Wilson,Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development,Canadian Boreal Initiative
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02383608N

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Counting Canada's Natural Capital by Mark Peter Anielski,Sara Justine Wilson,Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development,Canadian Boreal Initiative Pdf

While the market benefits of harvesting timber or extracting oil and gas are measured in terms The report also noted that in many regions, little is of their contribution to Canada's GDP, the value of known about the status and economic value of ecosys- most of the boreal region's ecosystem services is tem services. [...] Boreal Canada: State of the Ecosystem, State of Industry, Emerging Issues and Projections (Report to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy) (Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 2004). [...] Some exists (for ethical reasons).25 accounting for the appearance and disappearance of ecosystem features may be possible in a limited form For the purposes of accounting for the boreal region's of account."27 Therefore, this study is pioneering in natural capital and ecosystem functions, the UN the conceptual design and practical construction of Handbook of National Accounting, Integrated Enviro [...] For example, it was possible While the availability of physical or quantitative data was to account for the amount of carbon stored and annually a serious constraint to the construction of a set of boreal sequestered by forests and peatlands in the boreal ecosystem accounts, we were fortunate to have access to region and estimate a range of economic values for a wealth of spatial, geo-coded inform [...] The PSR is a convenient representation of the linkages among the pressures exerted on the land by human activities (pressures), the change in quality of the resource (state), and the response to these changes as society attempts to release the pressure or to rehabilitate land that has been degraded (response).

Author : Philip Joseph Burton
Publisher : NRC Research Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0660187620

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Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest by Philip Joseph Burton Pdf

Presenting a summary of the development in boreal forest management, this book provides a progressive vision for some of the world's northern forests. It includes a selection of chapters based on the research conducted by the Sustainable Forest Management Network across Canada. It includes a number of case histories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 0973780746

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Canada's Boreal Forest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Hawken
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525508496

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Regeneration by Paul Hawken Pdf

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. This means we must address current human needs, not future existential threats, real as they are, with initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as the fifteen-minute city, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, fire ecology, decommodification, forests as farms, and the number one solution for the world: electrifying everything. Paul Hawken and the nonprofit Regeneration Organization are launching a series of initiatives to accompany the book, including a streaming video series, curriculum, podcasts, teaching videos, and climate action software. Regeneration is the inspiring and necessary guide to inform the rapidly spreading climate movement.

Author : Geoffrey A.J. Scott
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773565098

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Canada's Vegetation by Geoffrey A.J. Scott Pdf

Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands. An overview of each ecosystem is provided, and equivalent vegetation types throughout the world are reviewed and compared with those in Canada. The integration of data on climate, soil, and vegetation in a single volume makes this an invaluable reference tool. Canada's Vegetation is sure to become a standard textbook for those in the environmental sciences.

Author : Canadian Forest Service
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788104535

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The State of Canada's Forests by Canadian Forest Service Pdf

Author : Bryan Edward Cooper Bogdanski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : 0662478878

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Canada's Boreal Forest Economy by Bryan Edward Cooper Bogdanski Pdf

"Canada's forest economy is heavily dependent on boreal forest resources. Conservative estimates put the contribution of the boreal forest resources to the Canadian forest economy at about $40 billion in revenue and 128 000 jobs, or about 40% of the total forest economy. The boreal region is also home to significant agriculture and mining economies, as well as tourism industries. This region also provides immense environmental and social goods and services, as well as being home to a significant population of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. In the coming years, new challenges and opportunities face the boreal forest-based economies. These challenges originate internally, such as increased demand for environmental and social values, and externally, such as increased competition in international markets. Unfortunately, there are considerable information and knowledge gaps regarding many aspects of the boreal forest economy and society. Economic research in the areas of forest land management, integrated resource land management, forest protection, boreal regional economies, transportation, non-timber forest values, climate change impacts and adaptation, and public policy will help fill some of the information and knowledge gaps. This will enable development of effective public policies and industrial strategies in the areas of resource development, social development and environmental protection to ensure that the boreal forest region continues along a sustainable path."--Conclusion.