Triangle Lake in northern Ontario
Credit: Jeff Wells 
I wrote last week about our report we released titled “The Carbon the World Forgot“, referring to the boreal forest, of course. You can read that post for more specifics in terms of the amount of carbon the boreal forest stores and why keeping it intact will be vital [...]

Carbon-rich wetlands in the Northwest Territories
Credit: Chad Delany, Ducks Unlimited
Today we are releasing a joint-produced report along with the Canadian Boreal Initiative about climate change and the boreal forest. Being one of the authors, I thought I would share with you some of the more interesting findings. Overall, we report that boreal forests store more [...]

In Maine, people don’t eat puffins any more.  Instead, thousands shell out good money for the chance to see one of the clown-faced birds from the rocking deck of a tour boat.  But there was a time when people took the puffins so systematically that by the early 1900’s many of their nesting colonies on [...]

Yaigojé Apaporis Park
Credit: Asociación de Capitanes Indígenas Yaigojé Apaporis
There was more good news from the Boreal’s sister, the Amazon, recently. In late October, the government of Colombia announced the creation of Yaigojé Apaporis Park, a 2.6-million-acre park that enables local indigenous groups to carefully manage the land and keep it intact. This park comes less [...]

This fall I have had the opportunity to visit two different Maine islands to look for Boreal migrant birds – Monhegan Island and Damariscove Island.  Interestingly, these two islands were probably the first ones in North America inhabited, at least seasonally, by Europeans who came for the vastly abundant fish that are sadly now largely [...]

I recently recieved these photos of a group of Bohemian Waxwings from my colleage Larry Innes of the Canadian Boreal Initiative. You might recall some photos I posted last month that he took of the Boreal in the fall over Labrador.
The most suprising thing about these photos is that he took them in his backyard, [...]