The Boreal Forest: A Year in the World’s Largest Land Biome

The Boreal Forest: A Year in the World’s Largest Land Biome — page 5
RUSSIA Winter Snow falls from a flat gray sky It smothers a spruce tree which creaks and cracks A flying squirrel peers out of a cavity in the trunk Her breath forms tiny ice crystals in the air They rustle on the snowy boughs making a sound that Russians call the whisper of the stars Snow blankets a nearby birch tree still thick with tasty catkins The squirrel charges along her branch and launches herself toward the meal The spruce shivers and whoomp snow drops to the forest floor