In nature, uniformity is a kind of beauty, but interlacing and complexity are even more beautiful. The important reason why the Tianshan Snow Ridge Spruce Forest is the harmonious echo of forests, grasslands, glaciers, lakes, blue sky and white clouds.
Snow Ridge Spruce is a unique tree species in the forest and sea of Tianshan Mountains. In the depths of the majestic Tianshan Mountains, it is vigorous and straight, with four green seasons, and the slopes are overgrown and endless, like a green Great Wall built along the mountain. The wind blows the forest sea, the sound of pine waves, the undulating green waves, and its momentum is like a tide.
Snow Ridge spruce is an evergreen tree with needle-shaped, slightly curved leaves and oblong, brown fruit balls. The Snow Ridge spruce in the Tianshan Mountains is said to have migrated from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau more than 40 million years ago and evolved into the unique and most spectacular forest tree in the Northwest.
Spruce is shade-resistant, cold-resistant, prefers a cool and humid climate and fertile and deep, well-drained slightly acidic sandy soil, grows slowly, shallow-rooted tree species, likes air, humid climate, likes to live in neutral and slightly acidic soils, and can also Suitable, should be slightly alkaline soil, like good drainage, loose and fertile sandy loam soil. The altitude of Tianshan Xueling is 1500-2800 meters above sea level just suitable for this condition.
Snow Ridge spruce is the best wood, with light wood and straight texture. It is the main raw material of Xueling spruce used in construction, furniture, papermaking and other aspects in Xinjiang. The spruce in the nature reserve conserves water sources, and the unique temperature inversion climate also brings complete primitive forest vegetation types in the mountainous area, making it a typical representative of the entire Tianshan forest ecosystem.
In this mountain garden, broad-leaved forests such as birch, aspen, and wild apricot are surrounded by dense trees.Shrubs such as mountain willow, tamarind and raspberry are overgrown everywhere.Hundreds of herbs have different shapes.Deep in the dense forest, brown bears, snow leopards, roe deer and other more than 300 kinds of wild animals and insects live and multiply, which can be called the "natural gene bank" of wildlife species in the hinterland of Eurasia.
Snow Ridge Spruce has a life history of 40 million years, and they are living fossils on the Tianshan Mountains. Since late October, the cold wind from Siberia has been rolling with snowflakes and frequenting here. Wrapped in silver, everything is silent, and the snow ridge spruce with the beautiful canopy looks like a majestic and neat army formation. Its mighty momentum is shocking.
