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unusual facts about boreal


Boréal

In previous years, guests have included prominent Canadian writers including Élisabeth Vonarburg, Nalo Hopkinson, Patrick Senécal, Geoff Ryman, Guy Gavriel Kay, Yves Meynard, William Gibson, Peter Watts, Karl Schroeder, etc., as well as internationally renowned authors including Samuel Delany, Ted Chiang, Michael Swanwick, Jean-Claude Dunyach, James Morrow, Valerio Evangelisti, Laurent Genefort, and others.


Boreal chorus frog

The boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) is a species of chorus frog native to Canada from the west of Lake Superior to western Alberta and north to the Northwest Territories.

Boreal Loppet

The Boréal Loppet, to be held March 1, 2014, in Forestville, Canada, is a cross-country skiing competition for all the elite skiers, and amateurs wishing challenges without relying on performance.

Borean languages

The concept is due to Harold C. Fleming (1987), who proposed such a "mega-super-phylum" for the languages of Eurasia, termed Borean or Boreal in Fleming (1991) and later publications.

Canada balsam

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine which is made from the resin of the balsam fir tree (Abies balsamea) of boreal North America.

Cirroteuthis

It is found in cold seas in the boreal Arctic, the north Atlantic Ocean, the north Pacific Ocean and waters off New Zealand.

E. palustris

Eleocharis palustris, the common spike-rush, creeping spike-rush or marsh spike-rush, a plant species growing in wetlands throughout the Boreal Kingdom

False lily of the valley

Maianthemum canadense, also known as Canadian May-lily, Canada Mayflower, Canadian Lily-of-the-valley, Wild Lily-of-the-valley, or Two-leaved Solomonseal, native to the sub-boreal conifer forests in Canada and the northern United States

Frank Speck

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples among the Eastern Woodland Native Americans of the United States and First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada.

Manon Barbeau

After graduating in Communication (Cinema) at Université du Québec à Montréal and writing workshops with Jean Gruault (scriptwriter for Truffaut), Enrico Medioli (scriptwriter for Visconti) and Robert McKee (writer of the TV series "The Avengers"), Manon Barbeau wrote the novel Merlyne (best-seller summer-fall 1991, Les Éditions du Boréal).

Poromya granulata

Poromya granulata has a subarctic and boreal distribution on either side of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Saskatchewan River fur trade

The boreal forest region to the north was inhabited by Cree who had migrated northwest as middlemen in the fur trade and, in the early and middle 19th.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Survivorman

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, a documentary made by Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov about subsistence hunters in the Russian boreal forest.


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