The Boreal Forest: A Year in the World’s Largest Land Biome
The Boreal FOREST A Year in the World's Largest Land Biome L. E. Carmichael Josée Bisaillon Kids Can Press
Glaciers melt soil breathes seeds fly on a warming breeze Trees creep ever ever north Centuries pass climate changes A forest is born Welcome to the Boreal Forest The boreal forest is young less than eight thousand years old Before then during the Ice Age glaciers covered much of North America Europe and Asia As temperatures rose the glaciers melted retreating north Animals that liked cool climates walked swam or flew to the new lands exposed by the melting glaciers Plants migrated by spreading their seeds In the warmer drier south old trees died But in the cool wet north their seedlings thrived Over time the forest continued to inch northward eventually reaching its current location and the boreal forest as we know it came to be
