Arctic Treeline

Information on The Taiga & Boreal Forest

Small clumps of larch trees surviving on the frozen tundra near George River, Northern Quebec, Canada

Damant Lake, along the treeline of the central Barrenlands, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Damant Lake, along the treeline of the central Barrenlands, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Damant Lake, along the treeline of the central Barrenlands, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Sentinel white spruce (Picea glauca) growing along the treeline, Wapusk National Park, northern Manitoba, Canada

Sentinel white spruce (Picea glauca) growing along the treeline, Wapusk National Park, northern Manitoba, Canada

Sentinel white spruce (Picea glauca) growing along the treeline, Wapusk National Park, northern Manitoba, Canada

The tree line ends in sparse stunted growth at the edge of tundra. Churchill,Canada.

A wooded river valley cuts through the Ush Urekchen Mountains in Chukotka. Siberia. Russia. 1994

A snowy slope illuminated by a shaft of light in the Ush Urekchen mountains. Chukotka. Siberia. Russia. 1994