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Northwest Territories
Vegetation types

Cotton grass tundra (low arctic)

Sparsely vegetated (high arctic) - Saxifrage and arctic willows

Patchy vegetation (mid arctic) -arctic poppy and draba spp.

Open lichen - black spruce forest (subarctic)

Closed canopy coniferous forest (boreal)

Closed canopy broadleaf forest (boreal)

Contact: Head, CanSIS