Taiga

The taiga is found throughout the high northern latitudes, just below the tundra, and just above the steppes

Black spruce taiga, Copper River, Alaska

The taiga ^[1] is a large area of coniferous forests.^[2] It covers most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, northern Kazakhstan and Russia (especially Siberia), as well as parts of the northern continental United States.

In Canada, boreal forest is the term used to refer to the southern part of these forests, while "taiga" is used to describe the northern areas south of the Arctic tree line that separates it from tundra. The trees are mostly pines, spruces and larches. The climate is cold winters and cool summers.

Taiga Media

The Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York form the southernmost part of the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion, constituting part of the world's taiga biome.
White spruce taiga in the Alaska Range, Alaska, United States
Siberian autumn 2011.All world is Taiga!
Boreal forest near Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park, along the northern shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.
Late September in the fjords near Narvik, Norway. This oceanic part of the forest can see more than 1,000 mm (39 in) precipitation annually and has warmer winters than the vast inland taiga.
Yukon River, Canada. Several of the world's longest rivers go through the taiga, including Ob, Yenisei, Lena, and Mackenzie.
Tukulan sandy area in the taiga of the Central Yakutian Lowland.
Boreal forest near Lake Baikal in Russia
Taiga spruce forest in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Trees in this environment tend to grow closer to the trunk and not "bush out" in the normal manner of spruce trees.
A Brown bear, Kamchatka peninsula. Brown bears are among the largest and most widespread taiga omnivores.