On our few hours off Ryan and I crossed the late to explore the boreal forest. It was an especially hot day so when we arrived there was little bird activity. We only saw a few black-capped chickadees, yellow-rumped warblers and a gray jay. We did however get to do a fair deal of botanizing. We identified cloud berry, marsh blueberry, bear berry, wild red current, nagoon berry for all you wild berry enthusiasts. The forest is mostly black spruce and willow with stands of alder and paper birch. In the more upland areas we encountered white spruce that actually got fairly tall, maybe 40 to 50 feet tall. The ground cover is mostly the aforementioned berries with ample Labrador tea, fireweed and horestails.
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