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Can someone tell me about the taiga plains?

  • where is it located? what animals are there? how does it look like? the climate? everything you no about the taiga plains please. its for my geo project

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    he Taiga Plains are centered around the Mackenzie River in the western Northwest Territories (Canada), bordered by the mountains to the west, the arctic to the east, and the boreal forests of the boreal plains to the south. Taiga Plains has short, cool summers and long, cold winters. Mean summer temperatures range from 7ºC in the north to 14ºC in the south. Winter brings averages of -26ºC in the Mackenzie delta and a relatively mild -15ºC in the portion contained in Alberta and British Columbia. Snow and freshwater ice lasts for six to eight months, and permafrost is widespread. There is generally little rainfall, about 200-500mm a year. Geologically, this ecozone is primarily horizontally layered sedimentary rock; limestone, shale, and sandstone. Most of the terrain is flat or slightly rolling, but where the river or its tributaries have cut through the ground, canyons hundreds of metres deep can be found. The permafrost leads to large areas being waterlogged and remnants of glacier activity make the landscape more varied. Trees in the Taiga Plains include paper birch, willows, trembling aspen, tamarack, green alder, white spruce, balsam poplar, lodgepole pine, jack pine, dwarf birch, black spruce, and balsam fir. Some of the smaller plants that grow here are fire snag, wild rose, Labrador tea, bearberry, sedges, eriacaceous shrubs, cotton grass, moss, sphagnum moss, feather moss, bog cranberry, and blueberry. The black bear, lynx, and wolf are the only large carnivores to be found ; smaller carnivores include red fox, vermine, and marten. Large herbivores include woodland caribou, wood bison, moose, and barren-ground caribou, while snowshoe hare, red squirrel, arctic ground squirrel are some of the smaller herbivores. Birds include the perrigen falcon the bald eagle, owls, and hawks. Common raven, boreal chickadee, red throat loon, ring neck duck. western toad and wood frog.

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