Boreal Biome

Another word for Boreal is Taiga.  It is the Russian word for forest and is the largest biome in the world.  The winters are very cold with lots of snow while the summer is mostly warm, humid, and rainy.  The main seasons are winter and summer due to the spring and autumn being extremely short, that you hardly know they exist.  The only plants that are there are coniferous trees like pine or white spruce due to harsh conditions.  The animals that you could find there are: American Black Bears, Bald Eagles, Bobcats, Gray Wolves, Red Foxes, and River Otters.  The Boreal Forest is important to all living things.  Its trees and peat lands is one the worlds largest carbon reservoir.  Carbon that is stored this way is not released into the atmosphere where it would trap heat and cause global warming.