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Muskwa/Slave Lake forests (WWF ecoregion NA0610)


Looking west into the mountains near Ft. Nelson, British Columbia (c) 2005 Scott and Ruth Bassett

Source of bioregions data: Olson, D. M. and E. Dinerstein. The Global 200: Priority ecoregions for global conservation. (PDF file) Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 89:125-126.

Distinctiveness (1=highest,4=lowest): 1 (globally outstanding)
This region contains one of the most diverse and intact large mammal system, including relatively undisturbed predator-prey systems.*

Conservation Status (1=most endangered, 5=most intact): 4 (relatively stable)
About 75% of the ecoregion is intact.  Logging and transportation corridors have degraded some areas.*

Characteristic species*
Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen)

Picea glauca

(white spruce)

Abies balsamea (balsam fir)

Picea mariana (black spruce) (c) 2004 Maurice J. Kaufmann

* Ricketts, T.H., E. Dinerstein, D.M. Olson, C.J. Loucks, et al.  (1999) Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment.  World Wildlife Fund - United States and Canada.  Island Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 360-361.

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