| IF YOU WOULD LIKE A LARGE DETAILED SCAN CONTACT US FOR A COPY.The alfa (Stipa tenacissima) steppe is the transition between the forests and the steppes. The area covered by alfa was 5 000 000 hectares at the beginning of the twentieth century but is now reduced to 2 000 000. Its degradation is due to overexploitation since it provided an important source of paper pulp as well as being used in basketry and weaving by the traditional artisanal sector . Barren land, 80 percent of the country, is in the Saharan region where ergs, regs and hamadas dominate. Published for Elisee Reclus Universal Geography |
