Image #BDK-3: An unusually humid Spring at the Badkhyz grassland site, Turkmenistan. (this may happen about once in 10-12 years at Badkhyz, due to cycles of solar activity. It results in massive blossoming of many species of annual plants; the most characteristic of them are Roemeria and Papaver (poppy) species. In the foreground is the former Deputy Director of the Badkhyz Biosphere Reserve, Habibulla I. Atamuradov, presently the Deputy Minister of Nature Protection for Turkmenistan. Photograph taken late April 1976 by Dr. R. Zlotin, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA).