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November 20, 2001

Lake Baikal Forest, Russia, 1997

Photograph by Gerd Ludwig

"Forests darken the horizon east of Lake Baikal. 'The strength of the taiga,' wrote Anton Chekhov, 'does not lie in its giant trees and its silence, but in that only migrating birds know where it ends.'"

—From "Russia's Iron Road," June 1998, National Geographic magazine