Welcome to the Terraformers Canadian Taiga Conservation Foundation's website. The Terraformers Canadian Taiga Conservation Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and conservation of the Canadian Boreal Forest. The Foundation’s primary objectives are to promote the protection of Canada’s undeveloped taiga, to sponsor scientific research in undeveloped boreal forest on the species therein, in order to provide a detailed understanding of how the local species interact and are interdependent in order that the ecology can be replicated in other taiga areas that have been polluted, and to restore taiga regions that have been polluted to their natural state.

The taiga biome has a harsh continental climate with a very large temperature range between summer and winter, classified as "Dfc" or "Dfb" in the Köppen climate classification scheme. Aside from the tundra and permanent ice caps, it is the coldest biome on Earth. High latitudes mean that, for much of the year the sun hovers at the horizon; winters last at least 6 months, with average temperatures below freezing. Temperatures vary from -50 °C to 30 °C throughout the whole year, with 8 or more months of temperatures averaging below 10 °C. The summers, while short, are generally warm and humid. In general, taiga grows north to the 10 °C July isotherm, occasionally to the 9 °C July isotherm (Arno & Hammerly 1984, Arno et al. 1995). The southern limit is more variable, depending on rainfall; taiga may be replaced by open steppe woodland south of the 15 °C July isotherm where rainfall is very low, but more typically extends south to the 18 °C July isotherm.

The taiga experiences relatively low precipitation throughout the year (200-750 mm annually), primarily as rain during the summer months, but also as fog and snow; as evaporation is also low for most of the year, precipitation exceeds evaporation and is sufficient for dense vegetation growth. Snow may remain on the ground for as long as nine months in the northernmost extensions of the taiga. Much of the area currently classified as taiga was recently glaciated. As the glaciers receded, they gouged out depressions in the topography. These depressions have since filled with water, creating lakes and bogs (especially muskeg soil), found throughout the taiga.