The Taiga biome is a belt of forest that stretches nearly all the way around the world, cutting a path through the far north of the North American continent and most of Northern Russia. The tree line, first of millions of trees, lies 1,000 miles south of the North Pole. North of the tree line, vegetation grows sparsely: temperatures drop too far below zero for any more than ground hugging bushes and plants to survive.

South of the tree line, vegetation and wildlife increase to surprising abundance. The majority of the forest is rooted across Northern Russia, giving it the Russian name, Taiga. It does, though, touch on quite a bit of land across the northern parts of Canada. This particular biome, or boreal forest, is so large, so vast that an animal, traveling for its entire life may never find its way out. A Discovery Channel-Planet Earth documentary, available at their website, or on YouTube, says, "It holds as many trees as all the worlds rainforest combined."

The Northwestern Ontario Forest Capital of Canada (Taiga Forest Overview Report, borealforest.org, Overview 2009), reports that the massive forest generally includes coniferous type trees. In the expanses across the North America continent the Taiga mainly comprises fir and spruce trees, in complete opposition to the Scots pine populating the vast majority of the forest as a whole.