In Alaska, one area where land managers and ecologists are wrestling with those questions is the boreal forest, home to spruce and birch trees, wetlands and many species of animals.

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

Up there, says Victor Bruce, an elder of the Poplar River First Nation. He is pointing above the trees in this boreal forest, where migrating songbirds sing, and fleeting herds of woodland caribou ...

A boreal owl peers out from a nest box north of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in March 2024. (Photo by Kristen Rozell) During studies in the early 2000s, biologist Jack Whitman found that ...

The boreal forest is Earth’s largest terrestrial ecosystem and the last intact forest in the world. In North America, it covers much of Alaska and Canada and extend into the contiguous U.S. It stores ...

The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years ...