Manitoba's blue mosaic : Six aquatic strongholds of Manitoba's boreal forest

The eastern and northeastern portions of the province (including the rivers on the east side of Lake Winnipeg and the Hudson Bay Lowlands to their north) share with Ontario the distinction of being within one of the single largest intact, undisturbed blocks of forest anywhere in the world (Canadian Boreal Initiative 2009). [...] In 2013, the Global Nature Fund gave the lake—the largest of Manitoba’s Great Lakes and a vital economic and recreational source for the province—the ignominious title of Threatened Lake of the Year (Global Nature Fund 2013). [...] CLIMATE KINGS Due to both the sheer size of boreal forests globally and the remarkable extent of wetlands within them, the world’s boreal forests and underlying soils have been found to store more carbon than all of the world’s temperate and tropical forests combined (Moen et al. [...] A a fitting name for one of the largest wide variety of songbirds thrive in and most intact examples of the the expansive, intact forests of the southern boreal shield ecoregion region, including some of Canada’s remaining in Canada. [...] Aerial vast wetlands of the upper and surveys conducted by the Canadian lower deltas make the Saskatchewan Wildlife Service and U. S. Fish and River Delta one of the largest inland Wildlife Service since the 1950s show freshwater deltas anywhere in North that an average of nearly 500,000 America.