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Cool woods : a trip around the world's boreal forest / Jane Drake & Ann Love ; art by Andrew Kiss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, Ont. ; Plattsburgh, N.Y. : Tundra Books, c2003.Description: 79 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0887766080
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH541.5.T3 D73 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Forever green: Wolf call -- Winter in the woods -- Fire! Fire! -- Good forest -- Around the boreal world -- Boreal shield: Nature's woodworkers -- A.Y.Jackson: Painter of the northern woods -- En route -- Best of both worlds -- Boreal plain: Boreal birds -- Woodland medicine -- At home in the woods -- Patchwork plain -- Boreal cordillera: -- Lynx and hare -- Skookum Jim, Frog Woman, and Wealth Woman -- Bushed -- Downwind, downstream -- Grizzly winter -- Ravens in the northern sky -- Before the boreal forest -- Roads kill -- Siberian taiga: Siberian tigers don't purr -- Trapper and the tiger: Nivkh story -- Reindeer afternoon -- Clear-cut choices -- Old world forest: Super weasel -- Silver maid and the Milky Way: Sami story -- Enchanted forest -- Scotland: Bringing back the boreal -- Forest for the future -- glossary -- Index.
Summary: The boreal forest is the last great forest wilderness on earth. It drapes across the subarctic right around the world. It pervades our myths and folklore. It provides us with wood and water. It freshens the very air we breathe. Jane Drake and Ann Love take the reader on an unforgettable journey around the world to view the boreal forest. They show the reader the seasons in the bush, the science and myth of wolves, the life cycle of the woods. From the Siberian Taiga, where tigers and sika deer live, to the Old World forests of Norway, from the Boreal Shield of North America to the birch forest of Northwest Russia, we are introduced to a region of incredible importance. Despite our reliance on it, we have placed the "lungs of the earth" under siege with clear-cutting, acid rain, and even radioactivity. Cool Woods is not only informative and beautiful, but it is a call to action to anyone who cares about our planet.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Youth Collection QH541.5.F6 D72 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800027708
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Includes index.

Forever green: Wolf call -- Winter in the woods -- Fire! Fire! -- Good forest -- Around the boreal world -- Boreal shield: Nature's woodworkers -- A.Y.Jackson: Painter of the northern woods -- En route -- Best of both worlds -- Boreal plain: Boreal birds -- Woodland medicine -- At home in the woods -- Patchwork plain -- Boreal cordillera: -- Lynx and hare -- Skookum Jim, Frog Woman, and Wealth Woman -- Bushed -- Downwind, downstream -- Grizzly winter -- Ravens in the northern sky -- Before the boreal forest -- Roads kill -- Siberian taiga: Siberian tigers don't purr -- Trapper and the tiger: Nivkh story -- Reindeer afternoon -- Clear-cut choices -- Old world forest: Super weasel -- Silver maid and the Milky Way: Sami story -- Enchanted forest -- Scotland: Bringing back the boreal -- Forest for the future -- glossary -- Index.

The boreal forest is the last great forest wilderness on earth. It drapes across the subarctic right around the world. It pervades our myths and folklore. It provides us with wood and water. It freshens the very air we breathe. Jane Drake and Ann Love take the reader on an unforgettable journey around the world to view the boreal forest. They show the reader the seasons in the bush, the science and myth of wolves, the life cycle of the woods. From the Siberian Taiga, where tigers and sika deer live, to the Old World forests of Norway, from the Boreal Shield of North America to the birch forest of Northwest Russia, we are introduced to a region of incredible importance. Despite our reliance on it, we have placed the "lungs of the earth" under siege with clear-cutting, acid rain, and even radioactivity. Cool Woods is not only informative and beautiful, but it is a call to action to anyone who cares about our planet.

Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and secondary school (age 13-18).

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