MOUNTAIN PINE FORESTS AND THE PROBLEM OF REFORESTING CHALK AND LIMESTONE OUTCROPPINGS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: May 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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MOUNTAIN PINE FORESTS AND THE PROBLEM
CT i,LFORESTING CHALK AND LIMESTONE OUTCROPPINGS
of limestone slopes and cliffs of river valleys in the
the Central Russian Plateau.
by "!.acier. in the ice and Tertiary Ages, but the chalk pine was limi-,;ed
t;; i.s i:-:turel. L.-bitat. There seem to be no well-defined physiological dif
erea,ces bet?wcr:; the two species, but neither variety flourithee under condi?
t.ic; is slyer: the other prevails.
l:!.; 194O-4i, Kuts:enko and Gridnev, workers in the Slonov Forestry Depart-
--of U. NIv?s:>hOiI Nursery, tried without success to cultivate chalk pine trees
under the sane conditions as ordinary pines. Under controlled conditions,
seedlings grew hc.th under the old chalk pines and adjacent on chalky formations
in Section 2s6 of the nursery.
-This is o_' particuiax interest in view of the great program of field pro-
iecr,ton ami tree plantations, which calls for wooded belts passing through ex?-
tensive chalk areas along the Ural, the Volga, the Don and the North Donets
rivers. In Voronezh Oblast alone there are chalk outcroppings, several thou-
sand hectares in area, most of which are along river banks and ravines. For
reforestation, use could be made both of chalk pines and of the scrub vegeta-
tion of the surviving mountain pine forests.
Such sutiiFing trees were recently discovered in the Altai, the South
on both. sides of the Volga, in the bcsin of the Donets and its tributary,
the Oskol, near Dubno and in several other localities. Those in the Oskol ba-
sin we::e exa iu.od, in 1948, by Vinogradov and Golitsyn.
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i ine forests' has been given by botanists to pine woods
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At the opening of the Galich'ya Gora Forest Preserve, maintained by the
dursk D_-partment of the society for the Protection of Nature, the Executive
Committee of the Kursk Oblast Soviet of Workers' Deputies passed a resolution
empowering the Kursk Administration of Forest Conservation and Forestry to
provide for the conservation of the remains of the chalk pine forest in the
woods of the "Stenki Izgor'ye" Reservation, organized by V. M. Kozo-Polyanskiy,
and to eutabl.irh a national preserve. Tha resolution has not been enforced,
and there is a real. danger that these forests, which could be used as sources
of new pine gr:,wths, undergrowths, and grassy vegetation, may be destroyed.
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