Ribbon burs Pavlodar Irtysh

From the northwest of the Altai Territory, relict pine forests in the form of tapes from 5 to 40 km wide stretch in the southeast direction.

Pine forests are parallel to each other and bear the names of the rivers along which they stretch: Kulundinsky (about 100 km long), Kasmolinsky (330 km), Barnaulsky (400 km). The last two begin at Ob and reach the Irtysh, merging near the city of Semey into a powerful dry Chat forest. ^[one]

The Laptevsky Forest is also merging into this massif. In the southeastern part of Pavlodar region, on dry elevations, forests lose the appearance of ribbons and form arrays of pine forests on the corresponding borovy sand.

The main tree-forming species of forests is pine . Pine tape burs are notable for resistance to sultry dryness, sharp temperature increases. Kulunda pine can grow on saline soils. The grassy cover of the hogs in the Pavlodar region is represented by such steppe plants as a dry-loving veinik , bluegrass, timothy, fescue , tonkonog, cat's foot, etc.

Conservation Difficulties

The difficulty of growing pine from seeds under local severe climatic conditions (the amount of precipitation up to 150 mm temperature on the soil surface often reaches 60 ° C in summer) requires careful treatment of this unique natural wealth.

• Pavlodar Pavlodar region. Encyclopedia, Pavlodar., 2003; Kazakhstan, AA., 1969 (Pavlodar Prirtyshie)