The mixture of red and black spruce ... combination bog-swamp-conifer forest contains almost the exact suite of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants as a similar habitat up in Canada or the ...

Canada alone has 170 million acres of this ... North America offers no better look at a tamarack/spruce bog. The acreage is owned by the nonprofit organization Friends of Sax-Zim Bog (Friends ...

of Energy) The boreal forest is Canada's first line of defence against ... The 8.1 hectare SPRUCE research site can be found in the black spruce bog forest 40 kilometres north of Grand Rapids ...

The scrawny black spruce trees that push up through the peat bogs of Canada's boreal forest are valuable indicators of fire risk, say researchers who studied a burned-over area just outside Fort ...

But this year, suppliers from Canada haven’t been able to sell ... to prevent damage to sensitive spruce bogs. The harvest of spruce tips have grown immensely in recent years as arrangements ...

Picea rubens habitat ranges from maritime Canada south and down the ... planted ten to 15 feet apart. Black spruce (Picea mariana), also called bog spruce, swamp spruce, and shortleaf black ...

Underneath a distant, swampy expanse of spruce forests and rivers in Northern ... commodities are buried under a vast ecosystem of peat bogs, known by local groups as “the breathing lands ...

After 21 years of going into tangled black spruce bogs in search of the bog elfin, finding it was confirmation of what Bryan Pfeiffer believed to be true: the tenacity of a tiny drab brown ...