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Karakan Pine Forest

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88% trees around it and 66 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km88%
  • wild within 10 km85%
  • species recorded66
  • Altitude157 m

The forest around

88% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 100%Grassland 0%Trees 87%Grassland 1%Water 12%Trees 44%Grassland 11%Water 38%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%Trees 37%Grassland 12%Wetland 0%Water 31%Cropland 20%88%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km87%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km37%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees87%
  • Grassland1%
  • Water12%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

66 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea5 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pipsissewa
PipsissewaChimaphila umbellata5 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca5 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
May lily
May lilyMaianthemum bifolium4 recordsBouba at French Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris4 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Goldenrod
GoldenrodSolidago virgaurea4 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rough Horsetail
Rough HorsetailEquisetum hyemale3 recordsDiego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Greenflowered wintergreen
Greenflowered wintergreenPyrola chlorantha3 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Wood Crane's-bill
Wood Crane's-billGeranium sylvaticum3 recordsPhilipp Weigell · CC BY 3.0
Calamagrostis arundinacea
Calamagrostis arundinaceaCalamagrostis arundinacea3 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lupine clover
Lupine cloverTrifolium lupinaster3 recordsBentham-Moxon Trust.; Curtis, William; Curtis's botanical magazine dedications, 1827-1927 · Public domain
Shady Horsetail
Shady HorsetailEquisetum pratense2 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 17:32, 12 August 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 88%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 85%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 66Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 157 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-16°-24°25 mm
  2. Feb-13°-21°23 mm
  3. Mar-3°-12°28 mm
  4. Apr8°-2°29 mm
  5. May17°5°44 mm
  6. Jun23°12°52 mm
  7. Jul25°15°68 mm
  8. Aug23°12°43 mm
  9. Sep16°5°39 mm
  10. Oct6°-2°46 mm
  11. Nov-5°-12°44 mm
  12. Dec-13°-21°36 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Karakan Pine Forest.

Russian national forest in Siberia

Karakan Pine Forest is a forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 88% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 85% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

66 species have been recorded around it: 39 plants, 26 fungi, 1 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cowberry, Pipsissewa and Wild strawberry.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Karakanskiy bor letom
Instaler · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Стоянки в Караканеcampsite · 2.7 km · 10 within 10 km
  • Детский оздоровительный лагерь "Завьяловский"place to stay · 3.8 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (OVB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 63 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Karakan Pine Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmСтоянки в Каракане, база отдыха соран, База отдыха "Элсиб" and 7 more
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmДетский оздоровительный лагерь "Завьяловский", база отдыха "Синеморье", янтарь
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

В плохую погоду
Beterov · CC BY-SA 4.0
Karakanskiy bor oseniy
Instaler · CC BY-SA 4.0
Река Глухая
Beterov · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4213857) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species304 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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