Domesticating Elk in a Russian National Park
In the Pechero-Ilych National Park, at the foot of the Ural Mountains in northern European Russia, where a 3-foot snow cover may lie for seven months of the year, experiments in the domestication of elk have been going on for some years. In this article the Director of the Park and his senior resear...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0030605300003483 2024-03-03T08:49:06+00:00 Domesticating Elk in a Russian National Park Yazan, Yuri Knorre, Yevgeny 1964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300003483 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030605300003483 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Oryx volume 7, issue 6, page 301-304 ISSN 0030-6053 1365-3008 Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 1964 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300003483 2024-02-08T08:41:15Z In the Pechero-Ilych National Park, at the foot of the Ural Mountains in northern European Russia, where a 3-foot snow cover may lie for seven months of the year, experiments in the domestication of elk have been going on for some years. In this article the Director of the Park and his senior research worker describe the wildlife of this large Park, covering 2,758 square miles, and the history of the domesticated elk herd, and estimate the herd's value in the economy of the taiga. The Park gets its name from two rivers which form the western and southern boundaries. A third river, the Kozhim forms the northern boundary, and the Urals the eastern. Article in Journal/Newspaper taiga ural mountains Cambridge University Press Oryx 7 6 301 304 |
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In the Pechero-Ilych National Park, at the foot of the Ural Mountains in northern European Russia, where a 3-foot snow cover may lie for seven months of the year, experiments in the domestication of elk have been going on for some years. In this article the Director of the Park and his senior research worker describe the wildlife of this large Park, covering 2,758 square miles, and the history of the domesticated elk herd, and estimate the herd's value in the economy of the taiga. The Park gets its name from two rivers which form the western and southern boundaries. A third river, the Kozhim forms the northern boundary, and the Urals the eastern. |
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