Carex pauciflora, Vaccinium Oxycoccos, Galium trifidum suhspec. dislentum nov. subspec, 

 Comarum palustre, Ledum paliislre, and others were common species in such habitats. 



On the north side of the Sayansk watershed might also be found here and there 

 naked declivities facing south, where the forest, after being ravaged by fire, had not 

 returned, but here such areas were rare, as the tracts here were considerably moister. 



That also the reindeer in some places may ruin the forest to some extent, I will 

 not deny. But areas with dying forest is a pervading trait all over the country, even in 

 places where the Soyotes and their reindeer never set foot, or where no trace of human 

 activity is to be found at all. There are really only few reindeer and reindeer Soyotes in 



Fig. 44. Drying up forest on the river Tshernoretska at an altitude, of about 900 m. above sea-level. 



the Urjankai country, and the destruction of the forest, which in this way might 

 perhaps be brought about in this vast territory, is, in case, of quite secondary impor- 

 tance and at any rate only confined to smaller areas. 



The question of the damage inflicted by reindeer on the forest is, for the rest, as yet 

 quite new and pending, and far from being sufficiently cleared up, and various views 

 assert themselves. 



