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Sask | There's a pretty steep temperature gradient from about 59°North by High Level Alberta to 50°North around Winnipeg,Manitoba. This puts a northern limit on arable land. The enclosed colored area on the attached PDF map shows the farmland and the colored dots north of it are isolated weather stations. You don't get much farmland coming 150 miles south from Fort McMurray until you're at Lac La Biche, a bit northwest of Cold Lake. When you're driving in that country or up the west side between Peace River and High Level you'll drive through mostly spruce forest, but you'll see it turn to poplar after a while and there's often cultivated land in a few more miles, usually just a few more miles before it's muskeg again.
http://www5.agr.gc.ca/resources/prod/doc/pfra/maps/nrt/2015/09/pr_g...
Also attached if that's easier for you.
Dr. Don Rennie, UofSask soils prof, remarked that the poor northern forest soils weren't really fixable. IIRC, his quote was "If we had a climate, we'd have a soil".
Climate trivia: The furthest south point of the arctic tree line, alpine areas excluded, isn't in Frigid Siberia. It's in central Quebec.
Edited by QuAppelle 5/11/2016 01:15
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Agriculture in Fort McMurray??
