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Introduction And Map Of Ecozone


The Hudson Plains is an ecozone of Canada that stretches from manitoba, through northern Ontario along the southern edge of Hudson bay into Quebec. The Hudson Plains are abundant in wildlife, from small mosquitos to large grizzily bears. Due to lack of timber and minerals the 10,000 people that live there make there living off of tourists.

Landform region
The terrain of the Hudson Plains are mostly bogs and fens. Bogs are most commonly reffered to as peatlands. Peatlands help fight climate change by acting as long term sink for carbon dioxide. Fens are also reffered to as peatlands. They usually have more nutrients for plant life and are less acidic then bogs. Sedges and mosses, along with some grasses, reeds, low shrubs, tamarackand white cedar, sundews, pitcher plants, and orchids are typical fen vegetation.

Rocks and Minerals
Rocks that are found in the Hudson Plains are Paleozoic, Proterozoic sedimentary rocks.The Hudson Plains are a flat and poorly drained terrain covered by a huge amount of wetlands.

Vegetation and Soil
There are two basic patterns of plant growth in the Hudson plains. The first ranges from north to south. The northern terrain is treeless tundra and in the southern terrain, taiga trees appear. Vegetation gets thicker as you move south because the drainage is so poor here that the plant life gets more water and nutrients for growth. Tree species include black spruce, white spruce,dwarf birch, paper birch,tamarack and balsam poplar.

The soil in the southern region has more nutrition and is thicker topsoil. up at the northern region their is greater drainage so even though it is god quality soil their is not as much nutrients in the topsoil.



Climate and Climograph
The climate region for Hudson Plains is Taiga. Hudson Plains have moderately long, cold winters, and moderately short cool summers.The average temperature is between -4 and -2C. The average summer temperature varies from 10.5 to 11.5°C, and the average winter temperature varies from -19 to -16°C.The precipitation averages are 400mm in the northwest and 800mm in the Southeast.It snows very little.The growing season is around 90 to 150 days.

Tourism
The Hudson plains are basically a big nature part. the official park is called "polar bear park" other than marked trails and areas for camping the entire place is all natural and protected so there is no development. It is a great attraction for hunters and fishers because of the abundance of wild deer, mouse, geese, etc.. and the many rivers and lakes for fishing.

Fun Facts
- It has a low population of about 10 000 people - most residents are First Nations - hunting, fishing, and trapping are practiced - the land doesn't have fertile enough soil to farm - population density is about 2.7 people per 100 square kilometres - It has 90% of Canada's wetlands

Ecozone's Future
If global warming impacts Hudson Bay there is a potential of it over flowing, and destroying some of the habitats and environment around it. But considering that it is a protected nature park with practically no resources for us to tap into not much will change over the next 20 years or so due to human impact.