New Brunswick

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New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories. The only province whose official languages are English and French. Due to glaciation, much of New Brunswick's mountainous terrain is left with only shallow, acidic soils that discourage settlement, but is home to vast forests. Much of New Brunswick is covered with forest, secondary or tertiary forest. In the early days of European settlement, the Maritimes were forested from coast to coast with mature trees, by today's standards giants. Today, less than one percent of the old Acadian forests remain and are listed as threatened. The forest ecosystems are home to large predators such as the Bobcat, Canada Lynx, Black Bear, and the large herbivores Moose and White-Tailed Deer. The province's deer population has declined by 70% since 1985. This may have been contributed to by the widespread use of glyphosate. The whole of New Brunswick is located in the Appalachian Mountains, with rivers flowing either into the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the east or into the Bay of Fundy to the south. These watersheds include Quebec and Maine. New Brunswick's climate is harsher than other coastal provinces, which have lower elevations and more coastline along the temperate sea. Signs of climate change in New Brunswick include more intense precipitation events, more frequent winter melt and a reduction in snowpack by a quarter to half. Sea levels are about 30 cm higher today than they were 100 years ago and are projected to rise twice as much again by 2100.