[Ost-news] "Study highlights need for conservation" (Mackenzie Gas Project/ Boreal Forest)

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Anthony Kovats // CAF  
Tuesday March 11, 2008

The ritual is as old as the giant and enveloping forest itself.  
Every spring, the shores of Lesser Slave, Peerless and North and South Wabasca Lakes explode with colour and sound as North America’s migratory songbirds return to the continent’s vast northern forest.  
American robins with their robust red breasts join the cacophony of sounds generated by Tennessee, Connecticut and Canada warblers as they gorge on caterpillars and insects in the budding branches.  
This is the boreal forest.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotstudy-highlights-need-conservationquot

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