Learn about The Taiga Forest

Boreal forests encircle the earth, across North America from Alaska to Labrador and across Eurasia from Sweden to Northern China, Korea and Japan. Boreal means “northern”. The boreal forest is also known by its Russian name “taiga”.
A few people live in boreal forests because of their harsh climate, short warm summers, hot in some places and long severely cold winters. Only a few species of trees such as pine, fern and spruce can survive such a climate.
Some forest animals such as squirrels, chipmunks and bears cope with the icy winters by hibernating. Moose, elk and reindeer must search for tender mosses and lichens by scraping through the snow. Wolves and lynxes compete for the few small animals that continue to move.
In the spring, great flocks of birds fly into the…


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