Beautiful Xinjiang 丨 Revisit Karrick Glacier

On September 14, 2020, one year after the implementation of the grasslands around the Karrick glaciers, a year after the implementation of the prohibition of animal husbandry, the Gaoshan Grassland shepherd in Banfanggou Village, Tianshan Township, Yizhou District, Hami City was lush. Reporter Cai Zengle Photo

Tianshan.com reporter Wei Yonggui

At the beginning of July this year, a number of well -known domestic photographers participating in the "Starry Sky Secret" Starry Photography Series in Hami City came to the foot of the Karric Glacier in Dongtian Mountain. Outside the protected area, the photographers set up a "long gun and short cannon", recording the rare capacity of the Kalrick glaciers, and the magnificent glacier scenery caused people to exclaim.

Many people noticed that in the front mountain far away from glaciers, grass colors have covered the valley. But few people know that a few years ago, there was a wasteland with bare soil and sparse vegetation here. Today, it is full of vitality. The mountain breeze is mighty, and the plants in the air are fragrant.

The Mount Karryki is the main vein of the east Tianshan Mountain. The altitude is above 4,500 meters. The highest peak Temu is 4,888 meters above sea level. It is far from the Balun Mountain Crescent Peak on the west. Karryk glaciers are the largest flat -top glaciers in Asia. The types of glaciers include suspended glaciers, ice bucket glaciers, valley glaciers, etc., with a total of 160, with a total area of ​​143 square kilometers and the thickest part of 73 meters.

Karrick Glacier melts water is the source of life of Hami Oasis. In 2019, Hami held the city's power to implement the implementation of the ecological protection and restoration project of Dongtian Mountain, and listed the Karrick glacier protection as the core. After 4 years of hard work, the Karryk glacier protection has achieved significant results: the amount of water melting water from melting water has increased, vegetation around the glacier continues to recover, the ecological environment continues to improve, and the ecological security barrier of Dongtian Mountain is more solid.

On June 24, 2022, the Karryk glacier scenery shot in the air. Photo by reporter Cai Zengle.

Forbidden Mucle Casting Glacier

In the summer and autumn, the Parry Glacier's Parli Pacific Farm was a herds that herders Uzn gave Buick Eikki. There are 200 sheep and 30 cows in his house. Every day, Uz will take care of cattle and sheep when she grazing, and prevent them from entering the forbidden area.

This grass field belongs to Kuora Village, Yanchi Town, Yiono County. In 2019, the restaurant surrounding the grass field around the Karryki glacier. The herdsmen settled the livestock outside the forbidden pastoral area and worshiped the strokes of the strokes in the pasta. Uz said to Buick: "There were more sheeps in the mountains, and the grass field was severely damaged. After the banned animal husbandry, there were more grass on the mountains, the grass under the mountains was tall, and the sheep didn't need to walk too far."

The grassland forbidden herds around the Galrick glacier covers an area of ​​572,000 acres, and some of them are in Iwug County and some in Yizhou District. The deputy secretary of the party group and director of the Lincao Bureau of Yigao County, Pilidan Mu Yiming, said that since the implementation of the banned animal husbandry, the height and coverage of vegetation in the forbidden pasta area have increased by 64%and 3.5%, respectively. It is determined that the grass yard production in the forbidden pastoral area is 182.9%outside the area. "Through the banned animal husbandry, the trend of grassland degeneration is curbed.

The gradual recovery of the grassland vegetation has reduced the exposed soil area with a large area and effectively cultivated the glacier.

In 2006, the Hami City Water Conservancy Department inspected the Kalrick Glacier and found that glaciers have been shrinking for several years. On the surface of the glaciers with high altitude and rare traces, a layer of black dirt particles shaped like earthworm feces also appeared. These soil particles reduced the reflection of the glacial on the sun, and the heat absorbed accelerated the ablation of the glacier, so that the stream also appeared on the top of the glacier.

Where does the soil come from? The source is the grassland around the glacier. Surgery over load causes vegetation damage, and the exposed soil layer raises dust in the wind. The dust was blown to the glacier. The melting speed of glaciers has increased, increasing the flow of the surface meter, and it is easy to cause soil loss in the case of sparse vegetation.

For 4 years, this momentum has been effectively curbed. Paline Muyiming said that now, granular soil is rarely seen on the surface of the glacier. The next step will increase the balance of grass and animals outside the forbidden pastoral area, promote the protection of grass field outside the forbidden pastoral area, and help Kalrick Glacier "rest".

Karryk's glacier in the sky mountain Snow Lotus. Reporter Cai Zengle Photo

Add color to East Tianshan

"This year is the fourth year of the grassland forbidden herds around glacier. There are more grass and dense. There are still many small saplings in Songlin. We can often see wild boars, horse deer, and yellow sheep during inspection." The changes brought about by the banned animal husbandry, the nursing guard of the Panfanggou Grassland Pipeline Pipe Station of the Lincao Bureau of Yizhou District, the nursing staff of the Panfang Grassland Pipeline Pipeline, Taminiazi Sima Yiyi.

The Trekiniazi was originally a herdsman of Banfanggou Village. After the banned animal husbandry, he became an excellent grassland manager.

In order to promote the prohibition of pastoral beings around the glacial, Hami City proposed "forbidden herds can not help raising, reduced the income of livestock", strictly implemented the subsidy and reward policy of farmers and herdsmen in the banned pastoral areas, and replaced large animals, loose reducing circles, transfer to the venue through small animals Acting and supporting the cooperatives to rationally resolve the contradiction between "grazing" and "banned herds", and ensure that herders' income is stable and life improves. Forbidden herdsmen have been supported by farmers and herdsmen. Like Reiminiazi, some herders have become grassland guards.

The Banfanggou Grassland Management Station is located in the depths of Dong Tianshan. In the early autumn of September, looking up at the Kalrick glaciers from here, I saw snow on the mountain. Under the snow line, the large pine forest is just like the green skirt of the Karrick mountain, and the yellowed pasta is covered with the hillside forest. In the sun, the mountain is colorful, like huge oil paintings between heaven and earth.

"The area where the management station is located, Cao is higher than the original, the flowers are much more blooming, and the rain is more than the original." Said Xiao Kaipiti, the person in charge of the Banfanggou Grassland Management Station, " Our Hami is too important. To protect the glaciers, we must first protect the grassland to prevent the adverse effects of planting. "This summer, the forest and grass department of Hami continued to promote grassland replenishment in the grassland around the Kalrick glaciers. Among them, Yizhou District artificially replenished the variety of climate adapted to the climate of the Dongtian Mountain grassland in the Poorwan natural grasslands and other places, and the area of ​​more than 11,000 acres of replenishment area. In the Qianshan area of ​​Dongtian Mountain, Hami City implemented 2,800 acres of flying afforestation and 2000 acres of artificially re -sturdy afforestation tasks. The forest structure was improved, and the forest coverage rate was improved.

Forbidden herds and grass, replenishment improvement, local locusts and mice, returning forests and replenishing planting ... Since 2019, Hami City has taken the protection and restoration project of East Tianshan with the protection and repair of the Karrick glacier. The grassland creates the environment of self -repair, giving the new vitality of Dong Tianshan.

Karrick Glacier Autumn Scenery. Reporter Cai Zengle Photo

The core of water articles

The ecological environment of Hami City is congenital and fragile, the amount of precipitation is small, the amount of evaporation is large, and the desert ecosystem dominates. Water deficiency has always troubled the development of Hami.

With every drop of water, Hami came up with various methods.

"Shulu" is a device buried in the root of new trees. The components include water storage containers, evaporative hoods, funnels, indicators, and floats. It can slowly release water according to the amount of water demand for trees, thereby greatly improving the survival rate of planting trees in the arid areas. Compared with the spray irrigation method, this device can save more than 30%of water. It is currently applied in the green belt along the Hami to Lop Nur highway.

Promoting "Zhongshui" is a larger scale. The water after industrial production of wastewater and domestic sewage is medium water (regenerative water), which can be used for greening. In 2021, the total water used by Hami City was 14.5 million cubic meters.

The premise of saving water is water. For Hami City, the core of the water article is the protection of the Karrick glaciers.

On November 29, 2019, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Autonomous Region approved the "Regulations on Water Resources Protection of Hami City" ("Regulations") and implemented it on January 1, 2020. The "Regulations" in Chapter 3 "Water Resources Protection" special provisions on the protection of glaciers: the people's government of the city, district (county) should strengthen the protection and monitoring of glaciers and designate the scope of glacier protection. The following behaviors are prohibited within the scope of glacier protection: grazing, felting, hunting or breeding; tourism, adventure; ore opening, stone picking, sand digging, blasting, or digging wild plants; other behaviors that affect glaciers.

To strengthen the protection of glaciers in the form of local legislation, it is rare in other regions. It can be seen from this that Hami City's determination and will to protect the Karrick glaciers.

Green water and green mountains are Jinshan Yinshan. Hami is an important coal production base, coal chemical base, energy base, and new material base in Xinjiang and the country. To achieve new development goals in the new era, water cannot be separated from the moment. With the protection of Karrick Glacier as the starting point and do a good job of water, it reflects Hami's clear understanding of the development of development. "Yifei Northwest Yueshi East, Yiling Moden is like a hostel." The Karryk glacier, which is the highest point of Dongtian Mountain, is symbolizing the new scale of building a high -quality development benchmark in Hami.

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