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There is no Taiga in the Mid-West. Only temperate coniferous forests. Taiga is sub-arctic/arctic forest. I mean, the southern Mid-West is actually just Subtropical, and even has the lush green Warm Temperate forests and the long growing season to match it, as well as loess lands and limestone and karst outcroppings.
Northern Minnesota and Michigan both have Taiga, and are considered Midwest.
Northern Minnesota and Michigan both have Taiga, and are considered Midwest.
Lost in translation. In Eurasia 'taiga' means the vast temperate/subarctic biome spanning from the Kuril Islands to Norway. In the US it's called 'boreal forest' or 'temperate coniferous', but it's the same thing. In North America the word 'taiga' is reserved only to the far northern areas close to the tree-line.
Lost in translation. In Eurasia 'taiga' means the vast temperate/subarctic biome spanning from the Kuril Islands to Norway. In the US it's called 'boreal forest' or 'temperate coniferous', but it's the same thing. In North America the word 'taiga' is reserved only to the far northern areas close to the tree-line.
This is from the Finnish taiga:
Looks EXACTLY like the Canadian Shield in northern reaches of inhabited Canada. Even the rocky outcrops looks the same.
Our name for our version of the taiga is 'the bush'.
I notice that some people talk about the taïga and the boreal forest as the same thing.
Here they are generally not considered the same thing.
The boreal forest is very, very dense. Almost like a jungle in the summertime.
The taïga has much the same vegetation, but it is visibly much "clearer" than the boreal forest.
The taïga is basically the transitional zone between the denser boreal forest and tundra which has no trees at all.
I just said all this in the post where I posted the picture.
In Europe everything north of the mixed forest with oaks, ash, hazel and other temperate deciduous grow is considered 'taiga'. Even the Scandinavian taiga is mostly a mixed forest of birch, aspen, alder and even maple and linden and spruce and pine, and not a semi-barren coniferous forest.
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