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The Last Intact Forest Landscapes of Northern European Russia
Alexey Yu. Yaroshenko, Peter V. Potapov, Svetlana A. Turubanova

Scientific advisor: Professor Olga V. Smirnova, Doctor of Biological Sciences.

Reviewers:
Per Angelstam, Associate Professor, Grimso Wildlife Research Station, Forest Faculty, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
Alexander S. Isaev, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Center for Problems of Ecology and Productivity of Forests, Russia.
Eric S. Kasischke, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, USA.
Olga N. Krankina, Oregon State University, USA.
Vyacheslav V. Nikonov, Institute for Problems of Industrial Ecology of the North, Kola Scientific Center, Russia.
Herman H. Shugart, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, USA.
Vladimir V. Snakin, Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Institute for Fundamental Problems of Biology, Russia.
Mikhail N. Zhurba, Svetogorsk - International Paper, Russia.

This work is the first attempt at identifying boreal forest areas of minimal human disturbance (intact) using high-resolution satellite imagery that allows most forms of disturbance in the natural ecosystems to be directly identified.

The work was done at the GIS laboratory of Greenpeace Russia using, in part, materials prepared by the Biodiversity Conservation Center and the Socio-Ecological Union International.

The following people contributed to the work: Dmitry E. Aksenov, Dmitry V. Dobrynin, Maxim Yu. Dubinin, Alexey V. Egorov, Yelena S. Esipova, Mikhail L. Karpachevskiy, Susan S. King, Lars Laestadius, Katie MacCarthy, Alexey S. Morozov, Vladimir G. Potansky, Andrey Zh. Purekhovsky, Vladimir E. Skvortsov, and the participants in field work. The authors wish to thank them all for their invaluable support.

The work of Greenpeace was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Turner Foundation.
The work of Global Forest Watch was supported by the home furnishing company IKEA and the World Resources Institute.