#Boreal Forest

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

dalton highway, alaska

august 2020

[lake-lady]

[midwestaesthetics]

Isle Royale, Michigan, USA. Largest island in Lake Superior in the North American Great Lakes.

[creativecuts]

"East Coast Hamsa"

[something-feral]

Another way of living

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Staring Contest by Doug Dance Via Flickr: The love between a mother and her cub is unmistakable. Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Have you ever been to a lichen felting party? They're wild.

Boreal Felt Lichen (Erioderma pedicellatum)

Historically in Norway, Sweden, and Canada. Now only in Nova Scotia

Status: Critically Endangered

[meriol-lehmann]

cnrl horizon highway, fort mckay

[vandaliatraveler]

Walk with me: Visit to a high-elevation red spruce forest. The red spruce (Picea rubens) forest on top of Red Spruce Knob, the ninth highest peak in West Virginia, provides a bittersweet glimpse back in time to the primeval beauty and solitude of such places prior to the arrival of the logging companies in the mid-Nineteenth to early Twentieth centuries. The loggers stripped the mountains bare and set in motion the massive wildfires that burned away everything, including the soil itself, down to solid bedrock. Almost a century later, the forest is regenerating and in some places, such as Red Spruce Knob, has regained the richness and vitality of a healthy boreal ecosystem.

From top: a view of Red Spruce Knob, in the far distance, from the Highland Scenic Highway overlook; Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), a ubiquitous understory component of the forest, along with mountain woodsorrel, yellow clintonia (a.k.a. blue-bead lily), hobblebush viburnum, Indian cucumber, green false hellebore, and various mosses and ferns; yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis) in bloom; pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule); green false hellebore (Veratrum viride) on eastern hay-scented fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula); and mountain woodsorrel (Oxalis montana).

[rabbitcruiser]

Muncho Lake, BC (No. 1)

Muncho Lake is a highway services community in northern British Columbia, Canada, located at Mile 462 on Highway 97, the Alaska Highway, within Muncho Lake Provincial Park and on the south end of the lake of the same name. The community consists almost entirely of travel and tourism-related businesses such as lodging, game outfitting, restaurants, gas stations and fishing outfitting.

Source: Wikipedia

[vox-anglosphere]

The Northern Lights hover eerily over the Alaska Highway in B.C.

[tarowrr]

not sure what to caption this one

august 17th, 2022

[something-feral]

07.03.24

[adoomkitten]

A few mushrooms from our hike through the forest

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Red Fox

Young fox taking a nap on the edge in the beautiful boreal forest.

Taken By CJ Lessard