How to Use boreal in a Sentence

boreal

adjective

• In Minnesota, moose used to roam the boreal forests by the thousands.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• Due to early snow melt and a lack of rain in June, the duff layer that blankets the floors of boreal forests and the tundra has dried out.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 25 July 2022
• The park is a mix of boreal forest and tundra along the eastern shoreline of Great Slave Lake.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Why do these birds move south out of their boreal homeland?
  — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
• The nine of us filed onto a four-wheeler trail that led off the highway and into the boreal forest.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
• There are much bigger fires recorded just 50 or 60 miles north of St. Mary's, but those burned in boreal forests.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 June 2022
• There are much bigger fires recorded just 50 or 60 miles north of St. Mary’s, but those burned in boreal forests.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
• There’s something really fresh about the boreal forests on the coast.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 17 June 2022
• Over much of their range, boreal owls operate in the dark every night.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• Alaska's boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2022
• These two traits rank boreal forests among the most important ecosystems on Earth.
  — David J. Cooper, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
• Found in: Cold places — northern boreal forests and tundra.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 2 June 2015
• More than one-third of the world’s remaining large intact forest acreage lies in the boreal forests of the far north, mainly in Canada and Russia.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
• The long-legged, large-antlered member of the deer family is found in the tundra, taiga and boreal forest ecosystems from Alaska to Labrador.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
• In this distant, boreal place, the sea had turned into a gardener.
  — Adrian Higgins, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Then everyone gets a chance to enjoy a mile-long ride through Churchill's boreal forest.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Through the summer, the boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere absorb a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide.
  — Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2021
• Picture the boreal forest, in northern Quebec, on the morning of June 1st.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• More than half of Canada’s landmass is comprised of the boreal forest—a vast and tree-filled region that extends across the country.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
• Striking in its long, narrow shape and encased in boreal beauty, Birch Lake, too, has given over to time.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Great Dismal Swamp to the boreal regions of Canada and Alaska where, beneath the permafrost, layers of peat run 30 feet deep.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2021
• Parts saw an early snow melt and then a largely rain-free June that dried out the duff layer — the band of decaying moss and grasses that blankets the floors of boreal forests and the tundra.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2022
• The city is surrounded by boreal forest, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem, stretching from the tip of Newfoundland and Labrador in the east to Alaska in the west.
  — Tracey Lindeman, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• The company’s pollution has carved a barren landscape of dead and dying trees out of the taiga, or boreal forest, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
  — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
• Along the Peace River and its tributaries, the boreal forest, and parkland regions are the most consistent bear hotspots, as are the mountain foothills.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 2 Apr. 2020
• According to the report, the decline was a direct result of fewer wildfires in the boreal forests of Russia.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• In boreal forests, changes in habitat and the tree canopy alter patterns of animal movement.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• But while the beetles are considered to play a role in the boreal forest lifecycle, outbreaks in the modern era have been different than those in the past.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the beautifully sparse Brooks Range in the Arctic, boreal forests are advancing northward and up mountains.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• Skies in the northeastern United States turned orange, hazy, and hazardous as the result of more than 400 infernos in Canada’s vast boreal forests in early June.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024