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Of or relating to the forest areas of the northern North Temperate Zone, dominated by coniferous trees such as spruce, fir, and pine. (source: EPA)

Kleenex and Kimberly-Clark receive failing grade in UK tissue ...  -  22 Oct 2007
Kleercut.net,They are wiping out the habitat of threatened woodland caribou and further degrading the last pristine and intact areas of the Boreal Forest.

McGuinty leaves northern jewels unprotected  -  Oct 20, 2007
Toronto Star,Is there any hope for Ontario's boreal forest? In the election just past, the provincial Liberals promised less than they did in the previous poll – and

Boreal forest, polar bears victims in global warming  -  Oct 18, 2007
AXcess News,By Brenda Keino (AXcess News) Washington - Rising temperatures caused by human activities are affecting the boreal forest in Alaska, one of the prime

Wind Energy America Inc. and Boreal Energy Inc. Enter Into LOI for ...  -  Oct 16, 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Wind Energy America Inc. (OTCBB:WNEA) announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to effect a business combination with Boreal Energy

Cosco wins Boreal Jibassic Rail Jam  -  Oct 15, 2007
Freeskier MagazineAtomic’s Ian Cosco flew back to Utah with $3000 in his pocket after dominating at Boreal’s Jibassic Pro Invitational Rail Jam. Friday afternoon on his way

/REPEAT/ - Ship carrying newsprint from Canada's Boreal Forest ...  -  Oct 13, 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),The newsprint comes from Abitibi-Consolidated, the most important logging company in Canada, which is logging some of the last intact areas of the Boreal

Boreal brings out early jibbers  -  Oct 12, 2007
Tahoe Daily Tribune,By Sylas Wright For the third time in as many years, Boreal Mountain Resort is one-upping its competition to host the area's first ski and snowboard contest

Company news  -  Oct 16, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),Wind Energy America Inc., Eden Prairie, has entered into a letter of intent for a business combination with Boreal Energy Inc., a Minnesota corporation.

Trail an outdoor boreal forest classroom  -  Oct 4, 2007
Western Star,Students in this city don’t have to go very far to explore a boreal forest. Just a quick bus ride to a place like Margaret Bowater Park and a short trek

$400 Million Boreal Bill  -  Oct 1, 2007
Winnipeg First,The boreal forest covers a large swath of central and northern Manitoba, and extends south near the Ontario border. Boreal forests are primarily made up of

Taking t-issue with Alberta oilsands  -  Oct 20, 2007
Canoe.ca (subscription),..."We've asked them why they haven't apologized for uprooting communities downstream from the tar sands and destroying the boreal forest," said Joly.

Aurora Boreal  -  Oct 2, 2007
VarietyTovar Velarde's eager-to-please debut "Aurora Boreal" can't cash in on protag's emotions, as it's clear from the start he won't go through with it.

Alternative forest practices pitched to decrease old-growth boreal ...  -  Sep 26, 2007
Montreal Gazette,Old-growth boreal forest is decreasing because of current forestry practices and policies, researchers with Sustainable Forest Management Network say.

Canadian Boreal Initiative applauds Environment Minister Baird for ...  -  Sep 25, 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),25 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI) congratulates the Government of Canada on today's announcement to maintain funding support for

Eden Prairie company to buy wind farm projects  -  Oct 16, 2007
Trading Markets (press release),Boreal Energy has a pipeline of projects in the works for the Great Plains, Midwest and Canada. Those projects include about 60 megawatts in various phases

Greenpeace Blocks Newsprint Shipment  -  Oct 15, 2007
CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer),Abitibi logs in the largest intact—but mostly unprotected—area of boreal forest in Ontario, Canada, and Greenpeace charges that the company’s paper contains

The downhill skiing time warp  -  Oct 14, 2007
Mail Tribune,Just across US 40, I see Sugar Bowl, and on the mountain to the north is Boreal. Fifteen alpine and nine cross-country ski resorts are within an hour's

Bruising boarding  -  Oct 15, 2007
Sierra Sun (subscription),By Seth Lightcap Winter arrived with a slide and a bonk Saturday night as Boreal Mountain Resort’s third annual Jibassic Pro Rail Invitational opened the

Look at us, world  -  Oct 7, 2007
Winnipeg Free Press,..."It" is the boreal forest, 15 million square kilometres of trees, lakes, rivers and bogs that circle the top part of the Northern Hemisphere like an emerald

Liberty Skis loves the skiing community!!  -  Oct 9, 2007
Freeskier MagazineBoreal is also showing Ibergs new movie “Idea�; this movie is going to rock the industry. This is a very popular event in Tahoe, with live music,

JPI.3 Rider's Perspective  -  Oct 12, 2007
Freeskier MagazineI am really excited that Boreal improved this year’s event by only allowing 15 snowboarders and 15 skiers, so the riders will have more time to get their

These birds go away -- just not very far  -  Oct 19, 2007
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com,Short-distance migrants primarily nest in the boreal forest spread across Canada and Alaska, and winter in the southeastern United States.

Reaching new heights  -  Oct 15, 2007
The Union of Grass Valley,She intended to join the Moms on the Mountains hike this year, at more than 7000 feet altitude at Boreal ski resort. But at the last minute, she couldn't

Kleenex Strikes Out at Wrigley Field  -  Oct 4, 2007
Kleercut.net,What they didn’t consider was the irony of advertising Kleenex at a Cubs game while destroying habitat for cubs (and bears) in the Boreal Forest.

RCMP horses set sales record  -  Oct 7, 2007
Ottawa Citizen,Boreal, another three-year-old bay gelding also sired by Santorini, sold for $31000 to Angela Minicucci of Montreal. After leaving the ring last night,

What's Ottawa doing to save the forest industry?  -  Sep 27, 2007
Advertiser,But, alas, we live in another kind of environment, the boreal forest of the northern hemisphere. And while they are no less exotic than the southern rain

Grassroots Environmental Powerhouse ForestEthics Continues Quest ...  -  Sep 26, 2007
Common Dreams (press release),The Canadian Boreal, which is being logged at a rate of two acres a minute, 24 hours a day, much of it for paper used in catalogs and junk mail,

The Language of Landscape  -  Sep 28, 2007
Living on the Earth,SAULITIS: Boreal Forest. South of the treeless, Arctic tundra, a forest shawl wraps eleven percent of the Earth's northern terrestrial surface.

10th annual African Caberet Nov. 3 (see video)  -  Oct 11, 2007
Sudbury Star,Tickets are on sale at Contact Intercultural on Elm Street, College Boreal, Black Cat Too, Radio-Canada, University of Sudbury,Carrefour francophone and AEF

Critics raise eyebrows at extra cost of western Manitoba Hydro line  -  Sep 27, 2007
CBC Manitoba,But environmentalists have applauded the decision, saying that maintaining the untouched section of boreal forest is worth the cost.

Protesting the disposable society  -  Sep 26, 2007
Rabble.ca,Our only chance for redemption is to be found in the carbon sinks of large woodland areas like the Boreal Forest in Northern Canada.

Conservation tops in NWT  -  Sep 25, 2007
Northern News Services (subscription),One Pew project is international boreal forest conservation, which focuses on Canada. "It's exciting to see the depth of support for conservation," said

Greenpeace blockades wood pulp shipment  -  Oct 3, 2007
Pulp & Paper Canada,The environmental group was protesting what it claims are destructive logging practices in the Canadian boreal forest. The eight activists were taken into

Doer Sticks With West Side  -  Oct 9, 2007
CJOB,However, Premier Gary Doer maintains the Boreal Forest on the East side has better chance of getting the designation with more favourable reports from

Environmental groups release summary of party positions on ...  -  Sep 26, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),All parties have, in different ways, responded with new public commitments to protect water sources, expand clean energy generation, safeguard Boreal

A political power play  -  Oct 13, 2007
Winnipeg Sun,McFadyen also thinks an east side line could help, not hinder, the province's chances of having the east side boreal forest designated a UNESCO World

Denison students protest Sears' paper policy  -  Sep 25, 2007
The Newark Advocate,Sears uses minimal recycled content in its catalogs and purchases paper sourced from endangered forests, such the Boreal Forest in Canada, the groups said.

September 2007 Poll: Conservation Issues are Top-of-Mind for NWT ...  -  Sep 24, 2007
HazMat Management Magazine,...cent) and the Ramparts wetlands and boreal forest near Fort Good Hope (87 per cent), with a clear majority in both cases expressing "strong" support.

Greenpeace activits picket Kleenex 'let it all out' campaign  -  Oct 4, 2007
Hippy Shopper,Greenpeace has found that Kimberly-Clark, owner of Kleenex, is driving the destruction of the ancient Boreal Forest, the largest tract of ancient forest

Show those oaks where to go  -  Oct 3, 2007
Langley Times,Or what the clear cutters thought of the Boreal forest, one of the last areas of ancient forest left on earth. Or even the person who wrote for the first

Grizzlies would face tough times on the Prairies: biologist  -  Sep 28, 2007
CBC Saskatchewan,..."Of course, a lot of the boreal forest remains, and if that can be included into the idea of a reintroduction, that would certainly help.

Faculty update: NSF grant aids professor's research on Alaska's ...  -  Oct 16, 2007
Middlebury College News and Events,Science Foundation for a project titled The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warning.

Vancouver author up for Governor General's Literary Award  -  Oct 16, 2007
Vancouver Sun,Robert Lalonde, Montreal, for Especes en voie de disparition (Les Editions du Boreal) . Anthony Phelps, Montreal, for La contrainte de l'inacheve (Lemeac

Greenpeace tears into retail 'eco-villains'  -  Oct 18, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,Greenpeace welcomed that move but said that in other countries the company continued to manufacture its brands from the "ancient boreal forests of Canada",

Major hydro line in Manitoba to run longer route west of Lake ...  -  Sep 25, 2007
Oilweek Magazine,The eastern route would have been shorter and less expensive, but would have cut a swath through pristine boreal forest. President and CEO Bob Brennan says

Tough talk on forests smacks of pulp fiction  -  Oct 18, 2007
Globe and Mail,So, you could argue that, with 30 per cent of the world's boreal forest, Canada has a responsibility to the planet to exploit its vast and sustainably

Clean, green power - but at what price?  -  Sep 29, 2007
Toronto Star,Like the Winisk, Attawapiskat and Severn, it flows from west to east, carrying fresh water from the boreal forest's lakes and streams to the James and

Environmental meltdown on the 51st parallel  -  Oct 3, 2007
Hour.ca,Many groups, including Greenpeace in a recent report, stress the vital assets that the northern boreal (conifer) forest represents for the planet as a

Amnesty International Canada Urges Halt to Logging Indigenous Land  -  Sep 25, 2007
Environment News ServiceBy Kate Harries TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, September 25, 2007 (ENS) - Clearcutting vast swaths of northern boreal forest in the traditional territory of a

'Wolf Song' is charming book for any age  -  Oct 19, 2007
Cook County News Herald,Along the way Nell hears all the familiar boreal forest creatures, but it’s the wolves she thinks about the most. It was the purpose of their outing — to




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