Top of the Tundra, Robert Mullen If 26 n C ANOE ROOT S spring 2007
you ask Rob Mullen, the stink of formalde- hyde can’t compare to
the scent of the boreal forest in September. Te Vermont wildlife artist took a deep breath 20 years ago while drawing dissection dia- grams as a biology student and decided he’d rather be painting living creatures. Mullen—who’s been canoeing
since buying a Grumman with money from his childhood paper route—has used a canoe as a tool of his trade to travel the boreal for-
est that covers much of Northern Canada. He says you don’t need an artist’s eye to notice changes in the forest. “It’s impossible to ignore the logging, damming and mining that’s been going on.” Mullen was on Ontario’s Mis-
sinaibi River in 2001 when he decided to assemble a team of art- ists to help spread appreciation for the forest to a wider public. “Tere is an ignorance about this
forest that is out of line with its importance. You can put the infor- mation into charts and graphs, but
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