Cool woods : a trip around the world's boreal forest

Title
Cool woods : a trip around the world's boreal forest

Personal Author EPSB
Jane, Drake

Summary
Introduces the boreal forest, the last great forest wilderness on Earth, and takes the reader on a journey from North American wetlands and mountains, through the Siberian Taiga, to the Old World Forests of Europe. Examines how this precious resource is being threatened with clear-cutting, acid rain, and even radioactivity.

Year Published
2003

Physical Description
79 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 26 cm

Note
Includes index.

Note (Local)
Book

Program Information
Trees and Forests Gr. 6+
 
Juvenile Literature
 
Accelerated Reader MG 6.8 1.0 72723

Subject
Taiga ecology.
 
Forest ecology.

Added Author
Kiss, Andrew,
 
Love, Ann,

Summary
Introduces the boreal forest, the last great forest wilderness on Earth, and takes the reader on a journey from North American wetlands and mountains, through the Siberian Taiga, to the Old World Forests of Europe. Examines how this precious resource is being threatened with clear-cutting, acid rain, and even radioactivity.

ISBN
9780887766084

Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, [2003]
 
©2003


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Lymburn577.3 DRABook30269000061171Non-Fiction