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U.S. Route 12 passes through Idaho and Montana as a two-lane undivided highway snaking along the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers, shaded by the trees and cliffs of two national forests. It takes tourists to hot springs and historic markers, bicyclists and motorcyclists on the ride of their lives, locals to the skiing and sport fishing [...]

Canada is blessed with 1.4 billion acres of Boreal Forest, a vast ocean of habitat that lives up to the title of North America’s Bird Nursery. Why is the Boreal a big deal? Here are four good reasons I’ve shared before: The Boreal Forest is the world’s single-largest terrestrial carbon storehouse. The Boreal Forest contains [...]

Did you hear this incredible news? The Canadian Province of Ontario announced last week that it will conserve a huge swath of the province’s northern wilderness, the area we frequently reference as the Boreal Forest. The promise to permanently protect at least 225,000 square kilometers of the Canadian Boreal Forest has been universally lauded by [...]