Image #SHR-1: One of the last square kilometers of "virgin" typical steppe in northern Kazakhstan, at the Shortandy grassland study site, pictured at the beginning of the growing season. (Note the substantial amount of standing dead matter and litter remaining from the previous year. The instruments shown are a Bowen Ratio - Energy Balance monitoring system. Photograph taken mid-May 1988 by Dr. Nicanor Saliendra, USAID Global Livestock-Collaborative Research Support Program, Utah State University, USA).