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Taiga group names!

Jacob Panteloukas. Brian Rogers. Seth Walters. Katelyn Dunfee. Kadie Conkle. Nathan Schwartz. Daney Rodriguez. Hollie Schwab. Amber Hawk. Brianna Grace. Derek Stocker.

__Brian Rogersbrian rogers__ The name snowshoe hare has particularly large feet and a winter-white coat. In the summer though its fur turns brown taking up to ten weeks to change color completely. The largest member of the weasel family wolverines are fierce hunters feeding on small rodents and even weakened caribou!

Taiga is the Russian word for forest and is the largest biome in the world. It stretches over Eurasia and North America. The taiga is located near the top of the world, just below the tundra biome. The winters in the taiga are very cold with only snowfall. The summers are warm, rainy, and humid. A lot of coniferous trees grow in the taiga. The taiga is also known as the boreal forest. Did you know that Boreal was the Greek goddess of the North Wind? Here is some information about the temperatures and weather in the taiga. The average temperature is below freezing for six months out of the year. The winter temperature range is -54 to -1C (-65 to 30 F). The winters as you can see are really cold, with lots of snow. Temperature range in the summer gets as low as -7 C (20 F). The high in summer can be 21 C (70 F). The summers are mostly warm rainy and humid. They are also very short with about 50 to 100 frost free days. The total precipitation in a year is 30 - 85 cm (12 - 33 in). The forms the precipitation comes in are rain snow and dew. Most of the precipitation in the taiga falls as rain in the summer.

.The //Pecia ovobata//, or Siberian Spruce, is a tall, perennial needle-leaf tree. The Siberian Spruce is a very beautiful tree that can grow up to about 30 meters high. The trunk of this spruce is about 1.5 meters in diameter. It has slightly drooping branches that make it look like a pyramid. It has thin twigs that are yellow - green in color. The twigs are also slightly glossy.

The large coniferous forest found in Canada is called the Taiga. There are many swamps, mountains and forests in the Taiga that are home to the Bobcat. Throughout much of the United States the bobcat lives in forests, but can also be found in desserts and chaparral.

Most spruce needles are four-sided, stiff, and less than one inch long, 2.5 centimeters to be exact. Woody, peglike projections help join the needles to the twigs. Spruce trees grow tall and most are shaped like pyramids. Some grow as tall as one hundred and fifty feet, specifically the white spruce. The spruce tree is an evergreen color but specific types of spruces, the black spruce for example, are named for the color of their bark and foliage.


 * __C[[image:http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/images/long_earedowl.jpg width="180" height="241" align="left"]] at Owl.__ || The Long-Eared Owl is a medium sized owl which is approximately 35 centimeters long (around 13 inches) and weighs 8-10 ounces. It is called long eared because of the tuft of feather on its head that look like ears. They do have ears, one which is fifty percent larger than the other and is higher up on the head. This helps them to hear in a special three dimensional way, that helps them to be able to hunt better in the dark. They have yellow eyes, black bills, and a very dark colored throat. They have a round face that is flat. Their face always looks very serious. Their wingspan is 37-40 inches long. They have strong talons for hunting. They turn their head from side to side and can even turn them so far that they can see behind themselves ||

The Jack Pine usually grows to be about 27 meters tall. by nathan schwartz ​

The balsam fir is the 3rd most comon tree in the Tiaga.

the white fir is 60-100 feet tall and can live to be 300 years old by nathan schwartz. The Evergreen trees do not have to regrow their leaves in the spring. However, they risk a chance of breakage from heavy snow fall.

hawk owl amber hawk





Paper birch trees have a thin bark that peels in horizontal layers which separates into sheets, almost like paper. Birch trees can grow in pairs or clusters. Both the sweet and paper birch can grow anywhere from sixty to eighty feet high.Birches produce long catkins (scaly spikes) which hold tiny flowers. The closed male catkins appear in the autumn, whereas the female ones dont appear until the following spring.




 * ** The Spruce Grouse (below) isn't much of a threat to human life. Restricted to the boreal forest, it penetrates only into the northernmost parts of the northernmost lower 48 states (and is present in a wide swath across Canada and Alaska). A secretive, rarely seen bird, we were fortunate to see a male displaying on Great Wass Island in Maine during our 1998 expedition._ hollie schwab ** ||  ||



**Foxes, which prey primarily on small herbivores such as rodents, are well at home in the boreal forests. The Red Fox (above) is found in Europe, North America, Asia (and has been introduced into Australia) and its rangeextends from the tundra to the tropics, but the boreal forest seems to be an anchor in its range._ hollie schwab**


 * || [[image:http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/images/douglasfir.jpg width="169" height="258" align="bottom"]] ||  || Douglas-firs are very big. They can grow from 40 to 60 feet tall and 15 to 25 feet wide._ hollie schwab ||

Poplar wood is light whitish/brownish in color. It is soft, light, and fairly weak. The white poplar has leaves that are silvery white, and the bark on the branches is white. They also have three to five lobes, just like a maple leaf. Poplars grow best in moist places._hollie schwab
 * [[image:http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/images/populus_alba.jpg width="149" height="206" align="bottom"]] ||


 * [[image:http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/images/taiga1.jpg width="321" height="216" align="bottom"]]Tiaga is mostly made up of pine treesand snow cap mountains.(brian rogers)**

The pine marton is about the size of a cat. It has a bush y tail to help keek its balance at the top of trees. a pine martin by derek stocker ​

[[image:http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/taiga/animals/moose.jpg width="244" height="200" caption="Moose"]]
all by nathan schwartz


 * __By Jacob Panteloukas__**

====  ====  Another common animal in the Taiga Biome is the red fox. It can grow up to 2 1/2 feet long, 15 to 16 inches tall at the shoulders, and weigh 10 to 12 pounds. It has a rusty-red fur, a white-tipped bushy tail and black legs, ears and nose. The nose is pointed, and the ears are wide and in the shape of a triangle.

The Balsam Fir is a small to medium sized native evergreen tree. It can grow to be 40 to 80 feet tall. The Balsam fir has a wide base and a narrow top that ends in a slender, spirelike top. The brances grow from the trunk at right angles, with the lower brances spreading and drooping to the ground when the tree grows in the open. In a dense stands, many of the lower branches are dead. It can grow to be a maximum of 200 years old.

-Brianna Grace Paper birch trees have a thin bark that peels in horizontal layers which separates into sheets, almost like paper. Birch trees can grow in pairs or clusters. There are many different types of birch trees and they all grow fairly tall. Both the sweet and paper birch can grow anywhere from sixty to eighty feet high. Some smaller types of birches are yellow birch, which grows anywhere from fifty to seventy-five feet

-Brianna Grace The Eastern Red Cedar grows in a pyramid shape. The top rounds off as it grows older. It has two types of leaves.The older leaves are flat and scale-like and only 1/16 of an inch long. The younger leaves are sharp-pointed and may be up to 3/4 of an inch long. They have whitish lines on top. In the summer they are a brilliant green, but in the winter they can turn copper yellow to rusty brown.



The Black Spruce is a tall tree. It can grow to be twenty-five meters tall. It grows in the taiga biome. As the tree gets older the crown of the tree gets more and more like a spike. The Black Spruce has sharp needles with four sides on them. The needles are blue-green, short, and pointed. They are usually a half an inch long. The bark of the tree is gray-brown. The branches are short and drooping, and are usually layered.



The Grizzly Bear is a sub-species of the Brown Bear. The only distinctions are that the Grizzly Bear has a silverish shine to its fur, and a strange shoulder hump that all other bears don't have. Grizzly Bears have omnivore teeth which lack carnassial or shearing teeth. They instead have molars to grind up plants, which make up a great portion of their diet.

-Brianna Grace

Gray wolves can survive in many biomes as long as food is plentiful and the climate is relatively cold. The gray wolf is the largest wild canine. They are around 3 feet tall at the shoulder and are about 3 to 5 feet in length from nose to tail tip. Their weight ranges from 40 to 176 pounds. Male wolvesare larger than females. Gray wolves have long legs with large paws. Their tails are long and bushy. They have pointed ears and yellow brown eyes. Their rough coats can be varying shades of gray, brown, white, or black, but in Europe can be grayish brown.

-Brianna Grace

The canadian lynx is a not so common animal. Its like a housecat but its larger. It has a powerful body on short, furry legs attached to hefty feet, and a bobbed, black-tipped tail. It is quick and sly, and can strike an animal at any moment. The lynx mainly hunts snowshoe hares, but also eats meadow voles, small deer, caribou and sheep. It has eyes that provide excellent vision for the night, and it's feet have fur covered pads and are silent in the snow so it can sneak up on small prey. It isn't very fast so it has to ambush an animal instead of chasing it down.



Most spruce needles are four-sided, stiff, and less than one inch long, 2.5 centimeters to be exact. Woody, peglike projections help join the needles to the twigs. Spruce trees grow tall and most are shaped like pyramids. Some grow as tall as one hundred and fifty feet, specifically the white spruce. The spruce tree is an evergreen color but specific types of spruces, the black spruce for example, are named for the color of their bark and foliage.

grassdeer-wolverine- nathan schwartz

BERRIES-PORCUPINE--ERMIN Hollie Schwab

Invasive Species and Food Chain Uploaded by Jacob Panteloukas Defination of invasive species: A spacies that does not natuarlly occur in a specific area and whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or enviromental harm to human health. Hollie Schwab Raccoon Dog---Invasive Species Eurasian badgers, American badgers, hog badgers, ferret badgers, stink badgers, and honey badgers (ratels) - they're all here on my Badger Pages. For every type of badger there are Badger Pages with photos, basic facts, or more detailed information. To find out more about these marvellous mammals, or to track down some fantastic photos of them, just follow the links or use the sitemap or search tool above.

​ BEARS---NOTHERN BAT-RACCOONSMINKS By: Kadie Conkle:)



-Brianna Grace

GrassDeer---Bobcat-Seth Walters

berriesinsectsbirdsminkhawks- nathan schwartz

seeds--mice-weaselsgreat horned owl- nathan schwartz grass-artic hare- fox=Brian Rogers

berries-porcupine-ermine--snowy owl- nathan schwartz berries--insectshawk owl=amber hawk