TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE FORMATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AGROFORESTRY FRAME OF THE ORENBURG REGION
A large-scale project – “The Stalin plan to transform nature" of 1948 changed the landscape of the Orenburg region. Inthe second half of the twentieth century in the region laid the foundations for the modern scheme of agroforestry frame. Thebasis of agroforestry frame of the Orenburg region became the State protective forest strip in the direction of the Vishnevayamountain – Chkalov – Uralsk – Caspian sea along the banks of the Ural river, a distance of about 1080 km. Treeless areas(less than 1%) mainly concentrated in the east region with average extent of forest cover of 0.5%.