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Taiga
Taiga-Total year precipation in Taiga is 12-33 inches. Taiga is prone to wildfires. many trees have veen adapted to this by growing thick bark which can protect a tree from a mild fifre. Because of the tilt of the Earth on it's Axis, in the Taiga you will find long nights in the winter and long days in the summer. Although the cold winters have some snowfall most of the precipation comes during the warm, humid summer months. Taiga is primarily a coniferous forest like the tempeature rainforset but is located between 50 degrees latitude North and the Artic Circle. = =

= **Plants** =

White Poplar White Poplar- They don't live very long .It is soft, weak and light. It is illegal to plant poplars along streets in some cities because they clog underground drainpipes and sewers. They grow best in moist places.The white poplar has leaves that are silvery white, and the bark on the branches are very white.

Jack pine - It is twenty seven meters tall and thirty-two diameter around the trunk.It has needles instead of leaves. The seeds are four-five millimeters long and dark brown. The tree is a reddish color. The jack pine adapts to flat or hilly areas that have mostly sandy soil.

Jack Pine

Douglas Fir- It can grow to sixty feet tall, and fifteen- twenty five feet wide. The wood is hard, stiff and durable. Did you know they named the Douglas Fir after David Douglas a Scottish botanist? Branches were used fuel for cooking. The Douglas Fir is vulnerable to clay because it rots the roots.

Douglas Fir

Balsam Fir- Small meduim sized native evergreen tree. It can grow fourty- eighty feet tall. Found in many biomes including the Taiga biome. It can live maximum of two hundred years old. It is sometimes used as lumber. Balsam Fir

Black Spurce- It can grow twenty-five meters.Enjoys colder colder climate and poorly soil. More it grows it grows to be spike like. The bark of the tree is gray-brown. The seeds on this plant gives the animals nutrients.

Black Spruce

Eastern Red Ceder- This plant grows 10 to 15 feet. Also the good thing about this plant is it can be planted in any types of soil. The Eastern Red Ceder prefers full sunlight since it lives in a cold enviroment. We use the Eastern Red Ceder plant almost everyday! What alot of people don't know is that we use the tree's oils to make perfume, moth repelant, and in some medicines. This plant has fruits that pheasants, ceder-wax wings, and other song birds like to eat.

Eastern Red Ceder

Paper Birch- This tree has a thin bark that peels off the tree like paper in horizontal layers. The Paper grow in pairs. It can grow to be 62 to 80 feet tall. Birches produce long catkins that hold little flowers. Males Catkins only appear in Autumn. Females appear in the following Spring. The Birch's bark, wood, and sap are used all the time.



Paper Birch

White Fir-It is 60-100 feet tall and can live to be 300 years old and by making it a very large forset tree. Did you know that the most part of the White Fir is the wood, and which is used as lumber? Also did you know that it is used for a Christmas tree too? The cones are 2-5 inches long and covered to a olive green to purple. It is the only naitve fir of the North American Taiga

White Spruce- The tree is an everegreen tree color. Did you know that in North America, spruce trees grow as far south North Carolina to Arizona? They grow tall and most are shaped like pyraminds. They grow as tall as 150 feet tall and are very beautiful.


 * Animals**

Bobcat- Can run up to 30 mph prefers to awlk and is also quiet. It is a carnivore. Eats mostly rabbits and hares.The body is about 2 feet long, and tail 4-8 inches long. It gets i'ts name from the stubby tail. The weight is about 13-23 pounds. Did you know that the baby Bobcat has spotted fur that disappears when they get older? Bobcat

Gray Wolf- Weighs 176 pounds. Lives in the cold. The maximum lifespan for a wolf is 17 years. Did you know that a wolf can eat 22 pounds of meat at one meal? They eat moose, caribou, and deer. Gray Wolfs

Grizzly Bear- It is an Omnivore. It weighs anywhere from 330-885 pounds. They eat 25% meat and 75% plant diet. They also eat insects, honey, small rodents,mammels and carcasses. Did you know that their body is stout and heavy with muscular legs, which alow them to reach speedds of up to 35 miles per hour for a short distance?

Grizzly Bear

River Otter- Weighs 10-33 pounds. Lives in thick woods, lakes, swamps, rocks, logs, grassy areas, rivers, ponds& fresh water. The animal is a omnnivore. It loves to eat Fish, Snails, Beetles. It is mainly eaten by Foxes&Wolves. It needs to live where Healthy Fish live.Did you know that when it swims, the River Otter moves slowly when it is above water, but when it is under water it twists and turns?

River Otter Snowshoe Rabbit- Lives in forset areas where the ground is covered with undergrowth in the higher parts of North America. It is larger than other Rabbits. The baby weighs- 3-4 pounds. adult- 15-20 inches.