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Also Known As	boreal forest

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Boreal forest in Alaska

boreal forests: Eastern Hemisphere

boreal forest: Western Hemisphere

A line graph with red and blue shaded areas shows cyclical rises and falls in the populations of snowshoe hares and lynx from 1855 to 1925, illustrating how hare population peaks are followed by lynx population peaks. Small illustrations of a running snowshoe hare and a lynx appear above the graph.

downy woodpecker

Alaska: Boreal forest

birch trees and conifers, West Siberian Plain

Encountering the world's rarest big cat: Amur leopard

How Siberian chipmunks prepare for winter

Survival in the world's largest taiga forest

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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