The State Reserve Verkhne-Tazovsky

The Verkhne-Tazovsky Reserve is an indicator that nature, even in the conditions of a harsh climate, remains true to its desire to survive in order to start a new flowering cycle in the spring. The only thing she can not resist is the desire of people to take away her wealth from her. Oil and gas production entails deforestation, the paving of asphalt roads and the construction of cities.

In order to preserve the amazing beauty and diversity of the flora and fauna of the Yamal-Nenets region from the invasion of people, in 1986 the lands were allocated and the Verkhne-Tazovsky State Reserve was organized.

History of the protected land

It is unlikely that the Yamal-Nenets region will seem hospitable to people who have come from warm regions. Indeed, the Tyumen region, which he enters, is associated in people with life-threatening frosts, a short summer and gas and oil production.

In fact, the fact that most of the district is beyond the Arctic Circle does not mean that there is no life here. Quite the contrary, it is here that 70% of the world's stock of whitefish live, and the tundra occupies 50 million hectares, on which deer graze.

To save the once-pristine nature from pollution and destruction, people from different organizations joined their efforts, so that 631,308 hectares of land were declared a protected area. In general, here are protected not only the reserves of the Tyumen region, Verkhne-Tazovsky, for example, but also 36 state reserves and more than 50 natural monuments. These places are rich not only with oil and gas, and it is important that the regional administration and the government in the country are united in that the protected pristine places become larger.

Currently, the Verkhne-Tazovsky Reserve is divided into two parts, one of which, the northern one, adjoins the village of Ratta, and is therefore called the "Rattinsky Forest". The second one is called "Pokolsky Lesnichestvo" in honor of the Pokolka River. The main task of the workers of the new reserve in the first years of its existence was to put cordons around the perimeter to prevent poaching or deforestation.

Territory arrangement

The border of the reserve separates it from the rest of the territory, and, as a rule, is equipped with transitional shelters. They are necessary for prolonged circumvention of the cordon, especially in the winter. Also in some of them the reserve's employees are permanently residing, looking after their section of the border. As a rule, communication between them is carried out exclusively by radio, and you can either bring the necessary products or medicines to the transitional shelters either by water on a motor boat or by helicopters.

From ten years it has been spent to completely equip the borders around the perimeter of the Upper-Tazovsky Reserve and today it consists of 6 cordons:

• Lower and Upper Pokolsky.
• Kellogg and Yazevoy.
• Rattovsky and Pylky.

There are many works in protected places. The main task is to monitor the population of animals and birds, to protect the territory from poachers and woodcutters.

Location of forest ranches

The territory of the reserve can be divided into several natural areas. So the most part is occupied by forests (534 955 hectares), treeless valleys stretch over slightly more than 96,000 hectares, and the most valuable property - swamps - stretch for 90,713 hectares.

Two forest districts are divided by the rivers Pokolka and Ratta, but in general, the entire territory is rugged by small streams and ravines. The water area occupies 5.5 thousand hectares.

In the eastern part of the Siberian Uvaly, where the Upper-Tazovsky Reserve is located, the hilly relief predominates, the ridges of which rise almost 300 m above sea level. It's good that you can see this beauty by hitting one of the excursions that are held here for tourists in order to get acquainted with the nature of the region and ecological education.

Climatic conditions

Since the Verkhne-Tazovsky Reserve, the photo of which is presented in the article, is in a zone whose soils are related to not continuous permafrost, the duration of the winter period here is 208 days. For spring, the local climate left only 2-2.5 weeks, and for a warm summer - 90 days.

In the hottest month of the year - July - the average temperature is + 18 ° С, but in general the weather in summer is hot enough for this area and reaches + 30 ° С.

It is difficult to expect something good from the subarctic climate and the nearby cold Kara Sea, thanks to which the temperature drops to -59 ° C in winter. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of the protected zone, both animals and plants, continue to survive in such harsh conditions and in a short summer period some manage to give a new offspring, and others - to grow.

Inhabitants of the reserve

The basis of the Upper-Tazovsky Reserve is dark coniferous forests occupying more than 100,000 hectares of total area, among which cedars (almost 90,000 ha) and spruce (slightly more than 15,000 ha) predominate. There are bands of light coniferous taiga, represented by larch and pine. It is in these burs that the greatest quantity of berries and fungi occurs. This cowberry "paradise" attracts brown bears, wood grouses, black grouses, white grouses and hazel grouses to these places.

In addition to the taiga, in the reserve part of the area (more than 40,000 ha) is occupied by deciduous trees, namely birch, willow, aspen and numerous shrubby. In total, more than 150 species of bryophytes, 300-odd vascular plants and 124 lichen species grow here.

If we consider what animals are found in the Verkhne-Tazovsky Reserve, only the terrestrial vertebrates are represented here in 230 species. Among them, in particular, 35 mammals (of which 9 are predators). These animals are common for taiga in Western Siberia: brown bears, moose, gluttons, foxes and ermines, weasels and chipmunks, squirrels and flying squirrels, muskrats and others. There are 548 species of insects.

During the migration of animals, their numbers increase. For example, wolves emerge when moose migrate, and Arctic Foxes come here in winter.

Over the years of the existence of the reserve, 191 species of birds, both waterfowl and forest, have been identified. Among them: blackbirds, devil-bearers, white wagtails, gogol, swan-swans and many others.

Fish in numerous reservoirs are represented by 23 species. Among them, spawning salmonidae predominate - taimen, muxun, peled, chir and nelma. Representatives of reptiles are the viviparous viper and the adder, and the amphibians are the sharp-pointed frog and the Siberian angler.

Scope of the object

The main task of forest rangers is the protection of natural objects. This concept includes:

• Inspection of the territory.
• Control over the use of natural resources of the reserve, protection and reproduction of forest areas.
• Organization of all-the-year-round forestry operations with supervision over human activity on their territory.

The control over the use of natural resources includes:

• Prohibition of geological research and conducting any work on the extraction of minerals.
• Any actions that violate the integrity of the soil cover for the sake of finding minerals and ore are forbidden.
• Do not cut wood for the purpose of harvesting timber and stock up on food from the forest.
• Any construction of buildings and roads not provided for in the general plan of the reserve is prohibited.
• Also under the ban is the use of chemicals and poisons, preparations for plant growth.
• Catching and shooting of animals, birds and insects is prohibited.
• It is impossible to arrange objects for storing production wastes on the territory of the reserve.
• Collection of zoological, mineral and botanical collections is allowed only in the framework of scientific activities to study the inhabitants of the reserve.

The main task of the forestries is to ensure and preserve those natural conditions that contribute to the growth of the population of animals and plants.

Tourist routes

To involve people in the protection of the environment, the management of the reserve developed tourist routes, among which:

• Descent along the Ratta River from the village of Tolka to the village of Ratta (250 km). The route is designed for 5 days following the river with stops to get acquainted with the surrounding nature.
• Following the cordon of Pulky will take 7 days, as well as numerous stops near natural and historical monuments.

Thanks to such programs, people have the opportunity to become more familiar with the beauty and abundance of this region.

Preserve today

The State Nature Reserve Verkhne-Tazovsky is a unique place in which nature remains untouched by civilization. In such a noble way, people apologize for using their bowels and other riches for their own purposes.

The more protected natural monuments will be in the country, the more pristine places will be preserved for descendants.