If one was to look at Ontario as a region we find a great variation in ecosystems. We may divide the province into four regions, the Hudson Bay Lowlands in the northern reaches of the province, the Boreal Forest, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest and Deciduous forest (Government of Ontario). 26 million hectares, covering one of the largest expanses of wetland in the world, the Hudson Bay Lowlands is characterized by bogs, fens, few slow growing forest and tundra, of this two-thirds of this area is bogland (or muskeg) –which is an acidic soil and the area also sports thousands of lakes and ponds (Government of Ontario). It is common to find stunted tree (stunted tamarack, black spruce, white birch, drawf birch and willow) –hindered by short
