FOR200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Soil Fertility, Stolon, Silviculture
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Boreal forest to the north, great lakes forests to the south-west. Mixed woods of the boreal transition area. Transitional forest that shares environmental conditions and climate. Red spruce is characteristic to the region. Associated with it are balsam fir, yellow birch, and sugar maple, with some red pine, eastern white pine, and eastern hemlock. Other widely distributed species are white spruce, black spruce, red oak, white elm. Once covered by primeval forest, farmers cleared the land for agriculture at such a pace that by the middle of the 19th century, farm crops and pastures covered nearly of the arable land. 100 years later, forests again blanket 75% of arable land in the region. Result of an era of farm abandonment brought on by the opening of richer farmland to the west, the building of railroads, the civil war, and even the. It"s now one of the endangered forests of north america.
