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ating a unique landscape with flocks of sheep, horses, and cattle, and even yaks and camels.
We have come by train out of a severe desert onto rolling grassland hills as beautifully contoured as any modern sculpture. The sensuousness of land formations, in some places almost entirely treeless, in others darkened by patches of evergreens, is more appealing to me than are the more rugged mountains with ridges and peaks that we saw in China on our way to Mongolia.
The mantle of grass that covers the land is thin. In places, the tan soil emerges; if great care in grazing is not observed and if heavy rains are not controlled with terraces, ditching and other means to guide and contain the water, erosion could damage and perhaps destroy the productive capacity of the pastures.
The nomad herders of the grasslands live in gers that are moved from time to time, depending on weather conditions. Fortunately for us, we encounter rain, first at the Great Wall of China and from there right through northern Mongolia
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