Taiga Forest contains as many trees as the entire world’s rainforests combined. Covering most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Russia, parts of the extreme northern continental United States, northern Kazakhstan and Japan, the Taiga is the world’s largest terrestrial biome.
Large areas of Siberia’s taiga have been harvested since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Canada, less than eight percent of the Boreal Forest is protected from development and more than 50% has been allocated to logging companies for cutting. The main form of forestry in the Boreal forest in Canada is clearcutting, where most if not all trees are removed from an area of forest. Clearcut upwards of 110 km² have been recorded in the Canadian Boreal forest. Some of the products from logged Boreal forests include toilet paper, copy paper, newsprint and lumber. More than 80% of Boreal forest products from Canada are exported for consumption and processing in the United States.
Some of the trees in the Taiga have lived over 5 thousand years. The forest contains the tallest trees in the world.
This photo is of a Giant Sequoia called General Sherman. It is the largest organism on the planet. At 275 ft tall it equals the weight of 10 blue whales. It is said to be over 2500 years old.
