2+Boreal+Cordillera

The Boreal Cordillera covers 444,000 square Kilometres of Canada. It occupies northern British Columbia and most of Yukon. Since it higher up North it has higher latitude and therefore it is much colder there and therefore is not friendly to vegetation or soil so farmland is if not rare is nonexistent. The vegetation in the area is much like that of the arctic tundra. Since there are a lot of mountains in the area the relief is very high, this is caused by the mountains blocking most of wind and rain. The trees are mostly coniferous and spruce trees. The mountains are also very cold due to elevation. It’s normally really cold up in the mountains the average is usually somewhere around 3 degrees yearly. It can get as low as -32.9 in January, this causes the people who live there to alter their way of life by building more heat insulating houses and wear heat insulating clothing like parkas. This is a parka. This is an example of the mountains in the area.
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It also forces the people who live there to hunt a lot more for their food. Only 31,000 people live here although it covers an extensive landscape. Most of the people live along the lakes and river valleys where there a lot of fish and caribou to hunt which is why they chose to live there because it supports their lifestyle.

There is a national park by the name of Kluane national park this area. In the area hiking is incredibly popular and it is bursting with wildlife like Grizzly and black bears, wolves, wolverines and over 150 bird species have been identified in this region like hawks Eagles and many more, the area is too cold to harbor any reptiles in the area. The Kluane national park is what covers most of the land in the British Cordillera 21 800 square Kilometres it covers. It is possibly the most mountainous region in Canada it is certainly the area with the highest mountains in Canada. This park is home to Mount Logan, the highest peak in Canada at 6km high this area also protects a lot of mountains from being exploited for resources The mountains and plateaus are the most popular features in the area. They are separated by lowlands and valleys. Even the lower part or the mountains have mines. The coniferous trees grow on the lowlands because in the higher mountains its’ too cold for trees or any plant life to grow there. But some animals like eagles and bears still live there.

Economics of the boreal cordillera Most jobs that are in the Boreal cordillera are trapping hunting forestry. There is some fishing in the southern areas of the boreal cordillera. It is impossible to be a farmer in that area because of again few growing days and freezing tempatures so that means they need the plants from other places in Canada like Southern Ontario. The people of the Boreal Cordillera also get money from tourism like in Kluane national park.

Climate: The average temperature in the Boreal Cordillera for the long winters is about -20 degrees and 12 degrees in the summer. The total precipitation yearly is usually around 300 to 500 mm a year but there is a lot more snowfall than anything else in the area about 60% of that falls as snow. During the summer there are a lot of violent storms like massive rainfall and tornadoes.

This is a climate graph From Yukon.

General soil profile: The soil is very poor in this area because it can't get all of the nutrients it needs for it to be good soil. Most of the nutrients it needs are frozen and to hard to get by leeching because most of the precipitation is snowfall. The are also a lot of mountain there so that means that the ground will be to rocky for nothing much to grow there, so things like shrubs and small forms of plant life would be in that area.

Landforms: In the Boreal Cordillera contains the ST.Elias, Skeena, Cassiar and the Ominica mountains as well as the Rockies some regions though are more lower than the more south eastern part of Canada. The Boreal Cordillera also includes the Yukon and Klondike Plateaus

Rock types: <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">The boreal cordillera consists mostly of igneous and metamorphic rock since there are some dormant volcanoes in the area because it is part of the pacific ring of fire.