Day 1

Hey we sitting on the car riding to a village outside of  the Siberian Taiga, You must be thinking what is a biome? Well a biome is a area where non-living,living organisms, and climate play roles in the area.

What are some other biomes?

Day 2

     Our biome that we chosen was the Siberian taiga. This area is a cold region way up in Russia that stretches across Europe and North America. During the winters temperatures can be around negative 50 degrees and summers not even hitting 50 making this one of the roughest places to live in. There are low greens and a select few on animals that reside in these region.

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm


Where do you see the most of the Tiaga lies?

Day 3

The Alaskan taiga is mostly cold all year around and normally doesn’t hit 50 degrees weather until the summer. The terrain that is in an Alaskan taiga is mostly made up of vast areas of forest, wetlands and low lying ground. The animals of the Alaskan taiga consist of elk, foxes, wolves, and variety of bears. Some of the plants that grow in this region are conifers, wide variety of pines and ever greens.

The Siberian taiga is a lot colder than the Alaskan taiga which winters can get to negative 54 degrees and hitting 20 degrees in the summer. The animals and plants are pretty similar like the Alaskan taiga.

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm Photos



What is the means of transportation in the winter of Alaska?

Day 4

We decided to go on a journey through the wilderness as we took a hike around the area looking for spots of interest. As we traveled through the area we would notice almost all the land was covered in snow. We would take a look around the area spotting many animal of the local area, we saw a few hares, a wolf stalking its prey, and some other animals. We took a look in a stream studying many of the aquatic plants and life located inside it. After, awhile of studying and observing we started to head back to the hotel for some rest.

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga_climate_page.htm



What else would you think we saw in the stream?

Day 5

We decided to take a look around the local life in the area around the town. As we took a look we saw many Balsam Fir trees. As we took a look at their pines we noticed they were very flat and rounded edged. Also, we took a look at the size of the tree as it was around 50 feet tall. After, that we walked around talking to people around in the area as they told us that some of them use these trees for Christmas celebration. After that we headed back to the hotel for some hot chocolate.

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga_plant_page.htm

What mammal uses this as their main source of food?
 

Day 6

We got up early and we went into the forest of the Siberian Taiga, as we explored we saw many Jack Pine, the Douglas fir, and the Siberian Spruce. We studied the Siberian Spruce for a bit as he noticed its massive towering height. We also took notice its density of the trunk of the tree. So we decided to measure it quickly with measuring tape to find the diameter, which was 1.5 meters. We continued our journey saw many interesting specimens until the sun begun to past the horizon and head back to the hotel.
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga_plant_page.htm

What is the age of the oldest living tree on earth?

Day 7

On our journey threw the Siberian taiga we decided to go with an observation crew and observe the red fox in its natural environment. The observers and us left the site for the site at four in the morning and didn’t get back until 11:00 PM. During today excursion we gathered a lot of information. We noticed that the red fox’s tail is 70% of its body, a little more than half its body length. After observing this creature we figured out that this fox’s diet consist of smaller rodents, chickens and anything that is smaller than the fox. Also the fox eat dead animals that were left behind by another kill.


 



http://thelife-animal.blogspot.com/2012/04/red-fox.html

Why is the tail of the red tail fox 70% of the length of its body?

Day 8

    We decided to go with a group of animal behavior specialists to go on a trip to study some of the predators in the area. On our first stop, we were watching a pack of gray wolves out hunting a herd of elk. So, I quickly recorded the video of them the herd. After the hunt was finished we decided to move back to the town, but we saw the den site of an lynx with her kits. We watched the lynx for sometime as he watched her from a safe distance as she took care of her litter. After thirty-minutes, we decided to head back to the hotel.
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga_animal_page.htm

 

 

 

What did you think of our video?

Day 9

 While at the Siberian Taiga we noticed some valuable resources in the area. We noticed that the large amount of trees in the area. Also, we saw signs for coalmines and oil wells in the outskirts of the forest. 


So we have a question for you, can you think of any other valuable resources in the area?

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/eastern_siberian_taiga.cfm

Day 10

In our travels to the Siberian taiga we observed many results of human impact.  We saw a lot of variable resources being used up we saw a lot of trees being cut down and loaded on trucks for their timber. When we went into town their were lots of venders selling animals skins. From reading information there is a lot of poachers killing animals for their meat and their fur, which we saw a lot of furs, and meats being sold. Another way that we saw the way that humans have impact on the Siberian taiga is that there is mining for coal. While we were walking around we saw many coal mines in the outskirts of the forest. Is there any other ways we could have of impacted this biome?

http://easternsibtaiga.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-about-human-impacts.html