circassian walnut juglans regia occupies a mere ha in hilly forests mainly in western kopetdag and in the valleys of the sumbar and arvaz rivers they preserve an important stock of nutrition supply and represent high potential reserves for livestock breeding the general area of saxaul stands is ha which includes ha of young growths ha of middleaged stands ha of maturing stands and ha of mature and overmature stands the wood volume of growing stock reaches million m m of which are of middle age or mature