Skip to content
forestyas
EN

CanadaUnited States Canada / United States forest

Eastern forest-boreal transition

Cephas · CC BY-SA 3.0

94% trees around it and 294 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded294
  • Altitude330 m

The forest around

94% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 99%Grassland 1%Water 0%Trees 93%Grassland 1%Wetland 1%Water 5%Trees 93%Grassland 1%Wetland 0%Water 6%Trees 96%Grassland 1%Wetland 0%Water 3%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km96%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland1%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water5%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

294 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Cardinalflower
CardinalflowerLobelia cardinalis12 recordsBarnes, Dr. Thomas G. · Public domain
Prairie willow
Prairie willowSalix humilis7 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Shining Willow
Shining WillowSalix lucida6 recordsreuvenm · CC0
Pipewort
PipewortEriocaulon aquaticum5 recordsJomegat · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great Plains flatsedge
Great Plains flatsedgeCyperus lupulinus5 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Shore sedge
Shore sedgeCarex lenticularis5 recordsHurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guid · Public domain
Earth loosestrife
Earth loosestrifeLysimachia terrestris5 recordsJomegat · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh speedwell
Marsh speedwellVeronica scutellata5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spoonleaf sundew
Spoonleaf sundewDrosera intermedia5 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. NoahElhardt assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bastard toadflax
Bastard toadflaxComandra umbellata4 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Blister sedge
Blister sedgeCarex vesicaria3 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pink lady's slipper
Pink lady's slipperCypripedium acaule3 recordsSasata (edited by Noodle snacks · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 294Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 330 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-7°-17°50 mm
  2. Feb-6°-16°46 mm
  3. Mar0°-10°51 mm
  4. Apr10°-2°70 mm
  5. May18°5°75 mm
  6. Jun22°11°87 mm
  7. Jul25°14°83 mm
  8. Aug24°13°80 mm
  9. Sep20°9°69 mm
  10. Oct12°2°77 mm
  11. Nov4°-4°61 mm
  12. Dec-4°-12°58 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Eastern forest-boreal transition.

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion in Canada and the United States

Eastern forest-boreal transition is a forest in Canada, 330 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

294 species have been recorded around it: 77 plants, 2 fungi, 210 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cardinalflower, Prairie willow and Shining Willow.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Scotora2 PJC
Cephas · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at YYB airport (North Bay)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Eastern forest-boreal transition seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 55campsites within 10 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Eastern forest-boreal transition.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Lakeyas21 lakes within 15 km
Lake Travers6.2 km² · 5.0 kmNorth Rouge Lake1.2 km² · 7.9 kmLost Coin Lake0.3 km² · 8.1 kmChateau Lake1.3 km² · 9.8 kmEustache Lake0.3 km² · 11 kmEmma Lake0.6 km² · 13 kmGerald Lake0.2 km² · 14 kmGreenleaf Lake0.7 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Algonquin Radio ObservatoryBortle 2 · 7.5 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Crooked Chute10 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Malbaie River in Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park, Quebec, Canada
Dav2z at English Wikipedia · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Eastern forest-boreal transition

Canada

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 294Species

Larose Forest

Canada · 231 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 405Species

See the guide

Finger Lakes National Forest

United States · 400 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 227Species

See the guide

Montreal Botanical Garden

Canada · 347 km

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 40%Wild
  • 533Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079370) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species19,964 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesLakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here