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Home improvement retailers can help save our forests
Include photo credit history: JLS photography, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.) The world’s largest remaining intact forest, the boreal, is under siege. The boreal is a wild, seemingly boundless forest that wraps about the Northern Hemisphere. In Canada, the boreal, protected with spruce, firs and pines, encompasses in excess of a single billion acres—supporting threatened caribou herds, grizzly bears and billions of birds. It gives new drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people and absorbs adequate carbon dioxide to offset the emissions of 24 million passenger cars. It is one of our greatest obviously-occurring climate answers. The Canadian boreal forest has provided the globe with superior high-quality lumber, wooden…