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1 Chapter 5 Forest Vegetation of Easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) Pavel V. KRESTOV Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Vladivostok, , Russia, Abstract: Key words: The forest vegetation of the Russian Far East, an area of more than 3 million square kilometers in northeastern Asia, has been well studied by Russians but has remained unknown to most vegetation scientists outside Russia. The region is important because it represents natural vegetation processes and their environmental relationships over a huge territory, from polar deserts to cool-temperate forests, from the Pacific coast to the continental interior. These landscapes are among the best preserved forest ecosystems in the world. This chapter includes the first overview in English of eastern Siberian forest vegetation in its basic types, with a focus on phytogeography, ecosystem structure and dynamics, and developmental trends. Special attention is paid to the zonal forest types, including mixed broadleaf-pinus koraiensis forests, dark-conifer (evergreen) forests of Picea ajanensis, deciduous light-conifer forests of Larix dahurica, broad-leaved deciduous forests of Betula ermanii, and the unique dwarf forests of Pinus pumila and Alnus fruticosa. Eastern Siberia, Russian Far East, Manchuria, Pinus koraiensis, Picea ajanensis, Betula ermanii, Larix dahurica, Pinus pumila, Alnus fruticosa, vegetation zone, continentality sector, forest dynamics, Sukachov approach, vegetation classification, Russian-language literature 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Russian Far East Easternmost Russia, well known in Russia as the Russian Far East and known elsewhere as eastern Siberia, represents the northeastern edge of the Asian continent, at the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean. The whole area covers approximately 3,125,000 km 2, ranging from N to 71 30'N latitude and from 122 E to 169 W longitiude. This includes the area east of the Kolyma River, including its tributaries the Anuy, Omolon and upper Kolyma Rivers (above the Chubukulakh range), the upper Indigirka River (upper half of its tributary the Nera), the east side of the Yudoma River basin and Maya River (Lena River basin) and the Amur River basin from the confluence of the Shilka and Argun Rivers (see Fig. 5.1). The territory represents the Far East Federal Territory of the Russian Federation and includes its eight of nine administrative units (krai and oblast ): the Chukotian Autonomous Region, Magadanskaya oblast (Magadan Region), Khabarovskiy krai, Amurskaya oblast, Jewish Autonomous Region, Primorskiy krai, Kamchatskaya oblast and Sakhalinskaya oblast. The land is bordered on the north by the Eastern-Siberian and Chukotian Seas (Arctic Ocean basin) and on the east by the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan (Pacific Ocean basin). The vegetation of this territory changes from polar deserts with scattered or no plants at all 93
2 94 Chapter 5 Figure 5.1. Northeastern Asia, with the area traditionally called the Russian Far East (dotted line). (northernmost Wrangell Island) to diverse mixed forests of broad-leaved trees and Korean pine in the south. Five broad vegetation zones replace each other from north to south (Fig. 5.2). The Arctic deserts, occurring on Wrangell and Gerald Islands, are replaced southward by a tundra zone along the Arctic coast, including the whole Chukotka Peninsula. East of the Kolymskiy range is the zone of Beringian woodlands, very specific to northeasternmost Asia. The main vegetation type of this zone is low (6 m) dwarf-pine forest. The boreal zone occurs from 43 N (southern mountains) to almost 70 N, occupying nearly 75% of the Russian Far East. The dominant vegetation type is larch forest, replaced only in the south by spruce (lower Amur basin) or by Betula ermanii on the Kamchatka Peninsula. At about N the boreal zone gradually changes to the temperate zone, represented by mixed hardwoodconifer forests.
3 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 95 Figure 5.2. Vegetation zones and areas recognized in the Russian Far East (Kolesnikov 1961). A = Arctic tundra, B = northern East Siberian larch region, C = Beringian woodland, D = middle East Siberian larch region, E = North Okhotsk area of East Siberian larch region, F = North Pacific meadow-stonebirch area, G = western Okhotsk dark conifer area, H = Dauria-Hanka steppe-woodland, I Manchurian-North Japanese mixed (broadleaf+conifer) forest area. 1.2 History of vegetation study in easternmost Russia Before the 17th century no information on the vegetation of northeastern Eurasia was known in Europe. This large area was sparsely populated by about 15 indigenous tribes: the Chuktchi, Eskimo, Koriak, Itelmen, Aleutian, Even, Evenk, Nanai, Ulchi, Nivkh, and others. According to 1959 data, the number of native people was estimated at 50,000, which was less than 1% of the current population of the region. Russians reached the eastern edge of the Asian continent in the 17th century. The expedition of Ivan Moskvitin reached the Sea of Okhotsk in The search party of Vasiliy Poiarkov reached the Amur basin in In 1648 the party of Semion Dezhniov went down the Kolyma River and circled the Chukotka
4 96 Chapter 5 Peninsula. In 1697 the party of Vladimir Atlasov crossed Kamchatka from north to south. Attempts to study the vegetation of the region followed two basic strategies, descriptive (by expedition) and experimental (stationary). Extensive data on the vegetation cover were obtained from expeditions before the 1960s. All expeditions were organized in Russian capitals, Moscow and St. Petersburg, at that time the main scientific centers. There were no scientific centers nor professional botanists or foresters in the Russian Far East at that time. Stepan Krasheninnikov was the first professional naturalist, working on Kamchatka in during the 2 nd Kamchatka expedition, sent by Peter the Great for exploring the farthest reaches of the Russian Empire. His book Description of the Land Kamchatka written in 1755 (Krasheninnikov 1949) remained for a long time the only source of information about the nature and vegetation of Kamchatka. George Steller, working in that expedition as a physician, collected the first herbarium from Kamchatka and adjacent areas. The first systematic botanical and zoological information was obtained in the mid-19th century: by A. Middendorf from the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and Shantar Islands, by Maximowicz from the Ussuri and Amur basin, by Maack in 1855 from the Amur basin, and by Schmidt from Sakhalin, Ussuri and the Amur basin. At the end of the 19th century the Russian Government, interested in colonizing Far Eastern regions, created a special Ministry for regulation of interior immigration, with the intent of settling the Amur basin and huge areas to the north with Russians. This Ministry initiated a series of expeditions to obtain information about lands suitable for colonization. Research was conducted in , mainly in the southern part of the region. One main focus of the research was the vegetation cover. The fundamental studies of Dokturovskiy in the Upper Amur region, of Korotkiy in the Zeya and Bureya River basins, and a series of studies by Komarov on flora and vegetation of southeasternmost Russia were conducted during that expedition. Until the 1950s, most of what we knew about the vegetation and major phytogeographical subdivisions of the Russian Far East was obtained from those early expeditions. The establishment of Far Eastern Science began at the end of the 19th century with the foundation in 1899 of the Eastern Institute, which later was transformed into the Far East State University. In the 1930s the network of specialized scientific institutes belonging to the Academy of Science of the Soviet Union was established in the biggest cities of eastern Russia. Several nature reserves were created for preservation of the diversity of natural rarities. All those organizations focused on accumulating knowledge on the nature of the Russian Far East. At the beginning of the 20th century, preliminary vegetation descriptions and forest resource estimates were obtained from all of eastern Russia. The data were summarized by the Vegetation Cover of the USSR (Lavrenko & Sochava 1956), which was the explanatory book for the first geobotanical map of the USSR (scale 1: 4,000,000). Another book Outline of the Vegetation of the [Russian] Far East (Kolesnikov 1955) remains the only description of the vegetation cover of this territory. Since the 1960s research on the vegetation has intensified, due to the foundation of several large scientific institutes by the Academy of Sciences. The biggest scientific unit, focused on investigation of the vegetation cover, was the Laboratory of Geobotany, founded by Prof. N.G. Vasiliev in 1964, in the Institute of Biology and Soil Science in Vladivostok. This laboratory, in cooperation with geobotanists from Leningrad (St. Petersburg), prepared a map of the vegetation of the Amur basin, the most advanced work on vegetation cartography in southeastern Russia up to now. The number of doctoral degrees granted reflects the increasing research on the vegetation cover: seven during , eight during , and 21 during (Krylov & Salatova 1969). The vegetation cover was also the subject of study by geographers, forest-
5 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 97 ers, and ecologists. The number of publications on flora and vegetation of the Far East increased from 1225 items in 1928 (Komarov 1928) to 7500 in 1969 (Gorovoi 1973). Since 1950 the whole territory of eastern Russia was photographed from the air and covered by topographic maps at a scale 1: 100,000. The forests were inventoried every 10 years. In the 1970s satellite photographs became available for vegetation monitoring, and topographic maps at a scale 1: 25,000 were published for the whole territory. Nearly all remote points became accessible with helicopters. A specific feature of Soviet science, especially in the Russian Far East, was that most papers were not published in refereed journals but in local sets of papers issued by different scientific organizations. Information on these papers did not go abroad, and they were absolutely inaccessible to foreign readers. Papers in European languages were published only occasionally. In the 1990s the situation for science changed dramatically as Russia became open for information exchange. The political crisis in all states of the former Soviet Union caused a very deep crisis in science. Centralized funding for many scientific directions was stopped, including vegetation science. Because of the current freedom for information exchange, vegetation science in Russia is now slowly recovering from the crisis. 1.3 Current state of knowledge on forest vegetation of the Russian Far East Intensive research on the vegetation of easternmost Russia in the 20th century enriched our knowledge of the flora and vegetation diversity. Publication of the Flora of the USSR (Komarov ) initiated local floristic research, resulting in the appearance of several regional floristic manuals: Guidebook to the Vascular Plants of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands (Vorobiov et al. 1974), with 1528 species; Guidebook to the vascular plants of Kamchatka (Kharkevich & Cherepanov 1981), with 1168 species; Guidebook to the vascular plants of Vladivostok and its suburbs (Vorobiov 1982); and the Flora of the Magadan Region (Khokhriakov 1985). In the most complete and reliable information on Far Eastern flora was published in the eight-volume series Vascular plants of the Soviet Far East (Kharkevich ). These books contain information on taxonomy, morphology and distribution of 4350 vascular species, based exclusively on herbarium specimens collected in the territory. Vegetation analyses appeared in many local descriptive studies focused mainly on important forest, meadow and tundra types. The material was generalized in several geobotanical maps, based on the principles of different cartographic schools (Aliokhin 1930, 1950, Lavrenko 1939, Lavrenko & Sochava 1954, Sochava 1969a, Sochava & Bayborodin 1977, etc.). Schemes for nature regionalization and for phytogeographical zonation were developed, for all of easternmost Russia, by Kolesnikov (1961, 1963). In the boreal zone, the principles of vegetation classification developed by Sukachov (Sukachev & Dylis 1964) were generally used for distinguishing and ordering community types. For classification of mixed forests (broadleaved + Korean pine), an original approach was elaborated by Ivashkevich (1933) and developed by Kolesnikov (1956a). Not only static criteria (dominants, floristic composition, topography) but also dynamic (short-term successional) criteria were used for identifying the main classification units. This approach was called genetic (cf. Man ko 1967) and was supported by several modern Far Eastern forest ecologists. Despite the extensive classifications of vegetation of eastern Russia, numerous local classification schemes were also developed. No school was strong enough to coordinate classification work and convince others to use common classification principles. The Braun- Blanquet approach could not be used as an
6 98 Chapter 5 Table 5.1. Areas (millions of hectares) occupied by the main tree species and total volumes of wood in the different administrative units (krai and oblast = district) of eastern Siberia (simplified from Anonymous 1990). Dominant species Primorskiy krai Khabarovskiy krai Amurskaya oblast Kamchatskaya oblast Magadanskaya oblast Sakhalinskaya oblast Total Far East million hectares million m 3 Pinus sylvestris Picea ajanensis Abies nephrolepis Larix dahurica Pinus koraiensis Quercus mongolica Fraxinus mandshurica Acer mono Ulmus japonica Betula ermanii Betula platyphylla Populus tremula Alnus hirsuta Alnus fruticosa s.l Tilia amurensis Populus suaveolens Salix spp Pinus pumila Others Total Changes over the period integrating basis for political reasons (Mirkin & Naumova 1998), so it was mainly the methodologies of Sukachov and Ivashkevich- Kolesnikov that were used for classification. Forestry, faced with the necessity of using uniform classifications and methods, attempted to simplify existing schemes by using dominance only as the criterion for distinguishing forest formations and by using combined dominance-topography criteria for distinguishing forest types. All forests of eastern Russia were inventoried before 1975 (Table 5.1), and several decisions were made for forest management. All forest formations were subdivided into management units (Solovyov & Sheingauz 1981), and detailed techniques were developed for practical silviculture; accurate data-bases allowed long-term forestry planning. 2. PRINCIPAL CONCEPTS 2.1 Units of phytocenotic classification The problem of inventorying phytocenotic diversity is closely connected with problems of vegetation classification. In easternmost Russia the main units of classification are associations (in the phytosociological sense) and forest types (in the forestry sense), accepted by different authors in different volumes and reflecting accordingly the units of cenotic systems at various levels. This, in combination with the lack of original published relevés, made classification systems for the vegetation of this region very confusing.
7 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 99 The term association was adopted in Russia from Scandinavian classification approaches (Trass & Malmer 1973, Frey 1973) and has a completely different meaning from the association of the Braun-Blanquet school (Braun- Blanquet 1951). It is more similar to Braun- Blanquet's variant and subvariant, but instead of indicating species abilities, the Russian association is based on potential to dominate in different layers or other plant groupings, such as synusiae, layers, growth form spectra, etc. Authors realized the advantages of the Braun- Blanquet nomenclature for ordering vegetation units but had no possibility to apply this nomenclature in easternmost Russia, because most vegetation studies were based on original approaches to vegetation classification. All references to associations and other vegetation units in this chapter will refer only to the Russian system of classification categories. Despite the agreement of many authors to accept a main classification unit (the association, or the forest type in the sense of Sukachov 1928), such agreement is not found in the real associations defined by these authors. In the survey of the vegetation of eastern Sikhote- Alin, Kolesnikov (1938) described 19 association groups, grouped into five classes; Dylis & Vypper (1953) classified phytocenoses into 18 forest types, related to six subgroups and three groups of types; and Smagin (1965) described 16 types for middle Sikhote-Alin, related to nine series and to four geomorphologic complexes. These authors use different criteria for distinguishing associations in complex mixed (broad-leaved + Korean pine) forests of the Far East, though there is a tendency to base classification units on the dominants of various layers in the communities. Nearly the same situation characterizes the syntaxonomy of the other vegetation types. Since the criteria used to classify different vegetation types may not be well known, those used herein are summarized in Table 5.2. The terms phytocenosis and association are accepted in the sense of Sukachov (1957): The phytocenose (phytocoenose), or plant community, is taken to mean any plot of vegetation on a given area, uniform in its composition, synusial structure, and the pattern of interactions among plants and between these and the environment. The term association Table 5.2. Diagnostic criteria of identifying syntaxa. Syntaxa (English and Latin names) Association (Associatio) Association group (Grex associationum) Association class (Classus associationum) Formation (Formatio) Diagnostic criteria Floristic Ecological and structural Dynamics Ecotope Homogeneity in species composition, certain species showing cenotic activity in same ways in all layers. Species of one cenogroup show cenotic activity. Characteristic group of species (sensu Dokhman 1960). Same as for associations. Homogeneity in synusial structure in analogous stages of stand development. Homogeneity in layer structure. Phytocenoses have the same dominants and belong to the same life form. The dominants are similar in the origin and in adaptations to the main directly acting natural factors. Changeability of phytocenoses in the scopes of stability of populations of significant species. Same as for associations. Changeability in the scopes of stability of cenopopulations of dominants and subdominants of phytocenoses. Changeability in the scopes of stability of cenopopulations of dominants. Homogeneity in ecological parameters. Same as for associations. Homogeneity in regional climatic parameters. Homogeneity in zonal climatic parameters.
8 100 Chapter 5 (or forest type) unites communities similar in organization and habitat adaptations, or alternately, identical in main species and layer structure on similar habitats. Thus, the association is an abstract unit, a product of the typification of phytocenoses based on structural attributes, unity of dynamic processes, and location in different vegetation gradients (Shennikov 1935). We consider that associations consist of several developing phytocenoses incorporating all stages of normal ontogenetic development of all determinant species of the forest community on biologically similar habitats. Thus, to distinguish associations we employ the following criteria: similar sets of canopy dominants; similar cenotic activity by the same species, and as a consequence, similar synusial structure in the lower layers; and similar environmental conditions, as indicated through various groups of indicator species. These criteria are similar to those of Dokhman (1960) and Dolukhanov (1957) (see also Alexandrova 1973). The term association group (following Shennikov) refers to sets of associations characterized by uniform climatic and similar soil and hydrological conditions, by a similar composition in the tree layers, and by cenotic and biomorphological generality of the dominants of lower synusiae (Krylov 1984). This concept is closer to the variant or in some cases to the subassociation of the Braun- Blanquet approach. The term association class means sets of associations united by generality of dominant species and similarity in features, reflecting adaptations to the regional climate (Krylov 1984). As far as the climate determines the differences in vegetation cover at this level, the association class corresponds somewhat to the zonal association of the Braun-Blanquet school. Formation unites the associations based on criteria of the ecological similarity of the dominants (Dolukhanov 1957, Krylov 1984). 2.2 Methods of ecological ordination The site typology of Pogrebnyak (1955), as interpreted by Krylov (1984), was used to display ecological ranges of the main association groups and their distributions on environmental gradients. An edaphic grid is constructed using qualitative axes for soil moisture and nutrient regimes. The soil-moisture axis includes six ranks (hygrotopes, sensu Pogrebnyak): 1) xeric (dry), 2) meso-xeric (slightly dry), 3) mesic (fresh), 4) meso-hygric (moist), 5) hygric (very moist), and 6) hydric (wet). The axis for soil nutrient level includes four ranks (trophotopes, sensu Pogrebnyak): A) oligotrophic (very poor), B) oligomesotrophic (poor), C) mesotrophic (medium), and D) megatrophic (rich). This yields 24 classes for site type (e.g. mesic oligotrophic, mesic mesotrophic, mesic megatrophic), similar to those of Cajander (1926), Krajina (1969) and Pojar et al. (1987). The exact position of association groups in the edaphic grid was determined by analyzing the ecological optima of the indicator species composing the phytocenoses, using the ecological scales of Ramenskiy (1953), as adapted by Tsatsenkin (1978) and Seledetz (2000) for Far Eastern species. 2.3 Nomenclature The vegetation syntaxa were named according to the traditions of the Russian geobotanical school (Sukachev & Dylis 1964, Alexandrova 1973). The naming of associations follows the binary principle, with the name of the dominant as the noun, plus the suffix -etum, and the name of the subordinate (shrub, herb or moss) layer as the adjective, with suffix -osum. For example, Pinetum caricosum for a pine forest with Carex understorey. Latin species names may be added to genus names as an adjective in the genitive case, for example Pinetum koraiensis caricosum sordidae. In the case of two equal
9 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 101 Table 5.3. Distribution of dominant species and phytogeographic areas according to vegetation zones and climatic sectors. Zone Sectors continental submaritime maritime oceanic Arctic deserts Open lichen aggregations Arctic polar deserts Tundra dwarf-shrub tundra lichen tundra lichen tundra the Arctic area of tundra Dwarf-shrubs Pinus pumila Alnus fruticosa Alnus fruticosa Beringian woodland area Northern boreal Larix dahurica, Pinus pumila Larix dahurica, Pinus pumila Picea ajanensis Eastern Siberian larch area Eastern Okhotsk darkconifer area Middle boreal Larix dahurica Larix dahurica Larix dahurica, Picea ajanensis Eastern Siberian larch area Western-Okhotsk darkconifer area Southern boreal Larix dahurica Larix dahurica Picea ajanensis, Abies nephrolepis Eastern Siberian larch area Western-Okhotsk darkconifer area Northern temperate Quercus mongolica, Betula davurica Dauria-Hanka steppe woodland wrea Pinus koraiensis, Fraxinus spp., Tilia spp., Quercus mongolica, Pinus koraiensis Manchurian Broadleaved Conifer Area Betula ermanii Northern Pacific meadowstonebirch Area Betula ermanii Northern Pacific meadowstonebirch area Picea ajanensis, Abies sachalinensis Northern Pacific meadowstonebirch area Abies sachalinensis Quercus crispula (s.s.) Northern Japanese Broadleaved Conifer Area co-dominants in the layer, both can be given, separated by a hyphen and placing the less significant species first, for example a Fraxineto mandshuricae-pinetum koraiensis cardaminoso leucanthae-caricosum sordidae. The names of association groups and higher units are given by using plural Latin names of genera, species or their growth forms or other attributes, with the suffix '-osa' for association groups and '-osium' for association classes. Examples: Pineta caricosa and Lariceta herbosa are association groups; Pineta carpinosium and Piceeta abietosium are association classes (Alexandrova 1973). The plant species nomenclature follows the Plantae Vasculares Orientis Extremi Sovetici (Kharkevich ), with exclusions mentioned in the text. 3. VEGETATION ZONATION IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST The vegetation cover of easternmost Russia is very heterogeneous, due to two basic climatic gradients characteristic for northeast Asia. The wide latitudinal range results in major climatic changes, from the Arctic zone in the north to the northern temperate zone in the south. The location near the Pacific Ocean causes another type of climatic gradient, that of continentality. The climate of the oceanic islands is suboceanic, with cold summers and mild winters. In the continental interior the climate is ultra-continental, with very cold winters (absolute minimum 72 C at Oymiakon) and warm summers (absolute maximum 43 C at the same location). The climatic dif-
10 102 Chapter 5 ferences cause changes in the vegetation, expressed from north to south as a sequence of phytogeographical zones: (1) polar deserts; (2) tundra; (3) dwarf-pine woodlands; (4) boreal forests; (5) temperate hardwood-conifer forests and (6) steppe-woodlands. This sequence of vegetation zones is commonly accepted in the Russian school of phytogeography, with east-west differentiation reflecting the continentality gradient (Komarov 1927, Grishin 1995). The Russian Far East is subdivided commonly into five continentality sectors: (1) suboceanic; (2) maritime; (3) sub-maritime; (4) continental; and (5) ultra-continental (Table 5.3). Vegetation in each continentality sector reflects the change from damp, relatively seasonal, even oceanic climates near the coast to dry, seasonally contrasting climates in the interior (Table 5.4). The sectoral nature of the vegetation zonation is reflected by subdividing zones or subzones into phytogeographical areas with continentality-dependent features in the vegetation. The main characteristics of these phytogeographical areas are summarized briefly below. Table 5.4. Climatic data for sites and phytogeographical areas. Area and station Latitude Longitude Mean temperature ( C) annual coldest warmest month month Annual precipitation (mm) Arctic area of tundra Rauchua 69 N 166 E Pevek 69 N 170 E Cape Schmidt 68 N 179 W Uelen 66 N 170 W Anadyr 65 N 176 E Kresta Bay 66 N 179 W Providenia 64 N 174 W Cape Navarin 62 N 178 E Beringian woodland area Ostrovnoe 67 N 167 E Eropol 68 N 162 E Bilibino 66 N 158 E Markovo 65 N 170 E Khatyrka 62 N 176 E Kamenskoye 62 N 166 E Apuka 61 N 170 E Palana 59 N 160 E Ossora 59 N 163 E Nikolskoye 55 N 166 E Cape Lopatka 51 N 157 E Shumshu 51 N 156 E East-Siberian larch area Oymiakon 63 N 143 E Gizhiga 62 N 160 E Magadan 60 N 151 E Okhotsk 59 N 144 E Nelkan 58 N 137 E Tynda 55 N 125 E Ignashino 53 N 121 E Skovorodino 54 N 124 E Ust -Njukzha 57 N 122 E Chekunda 50 N 132 E Eastern Okhotsk dark conifer area Kozyrevsk 56 N 160 W
11 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 103 Area and station Latitude Longitude Mean temperature ( C) Annual precipitation annual coldest warmest month month (mm) Milkovo 55 N 159 E Northern Pacific meadow stone birch area Sobolevo 55 N 156 E Storozh Bay 55 N 162 E Bolsheretsk 52 N 156 E Petropavlovsk 53 N 159 E Matua 48 N 153 E Simushir 47 N 152 E Western Okhotsk dark conifer area Ayan 57 N 138 E Cape Enkan 57 N 139 E Poliny Osipenko 52 N 136 E Chumikan 55 N 135 E Belogorsk 51 N 128 E Bolon 50 N 136 E Nikolayevsk-na-Amure 53 N 141 E Okha 54 N 143 E Nogliki 52 N 143 E Poronaisk 49 N 143 E Dauria-Hanka steppe-woodland area Ilyinka 45 N 132 E Manchurian mixed broadleaf-conifer area Birobidzhan 49 N 133 E Blagoveshchensk 50 N 127 E Khabarovsk 49 N 135 E Sovgavan 49 N 140 E Dalnerechensk 46 N 134 E Roshchino 46 N 135 E Terney 46 N 137 E Kirovskiy 45 N 134 E Olga 44 N 135 E Ussuriysk 44 N 132 E Vladivostok 43 N 132 E Riazanovka 43 N 131 E Northern Japanese mixed broadleaf-conifer area Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 47 N 143 E Uglegorsk 49 N 142 E Cape Krilion 46 N 142 E Kurilsk 45 N 148 E Arctic zone Arctic deserts In northeastern Asia only Wrangell and Gerald Islands are in the zone of Arctic Deserts (Kolesnikov 1961, 1963), which are characterized by the lack of a closed vegetation cover. Large areas on the islands are covered by talus or rock outcrops. Crustose and foliose lichens (species of Gyrophora, Lecidea, and Rhizocarpon) are most abundant on the stony substrates. On the sites with accumulations of fine soil, fruticose lichens (Alectoria, Cetraria and Cladonia) and mosses (mainly Andraea papillosa, Pogonatum capillare, Rhacomitrium lanuginosum and Tetraplodon mnioides) form the sparse cover. The vascular plants are represented by Douglasia ochotensis, Artemisia glomerata,
12 104 Chapter 5 Papaver polare, Saussurea tilesii, Saxifraga funstonii, etc. The bryophytes and flowering plants are scattered and not numerous (Gorodkov 1958a, b) Arctic tundra The coast of the Arctic Ocean and all of the Chukotka Peninsula north of 65 N are covered by tundra vegetation (Fig. 5.3). The Tundra Zone is subdivided into two subzones: typical Arctic tundra along the Arctic coast and lichen tundra as the main zonal vegetation on the Chukotka Peninsula and lower Anadyr River basin (Kozhevnikov 1996). The Far Eastern sectors of the Arctic Polar Desert and Tundra are differentiated from the rest of the circum-arctic zone by the presence of so-called Beringian plant species, which are also common to Alaskan and eastern- Canadian sectors of the Arctic zone (Yurtsev et al. 1978). Tundra vegetation is characterized by a closed, one-layer cover composed mainly of perennial plants, especially dwarf-shrubs, mosses and lichens, and by a lack of larger shrubs and trees. Most typical tundra plants have their renewal buds no higher than cm above the ground and reproduce mainly vegetatively. All tundra plants are adapted to the short vegetative season with its long period of daylight (Kozhevnikov 1996). Tundra communities vary in composition depending on site edaphic and climatic conditions. Regions along the Arctic coast are characterized by predominance of sedge and heath communities with Carex spp., Eriophorum vaginatum, Vaccinium uliginosum, Betula exilis and leafy mosses. On the Chukotka Peninsula sedge communities are also important, but lichen communities with Cladina spp. and some ericaceous dwarf-shrubs increase. Figure 5.3. Tundra vegetation on the Chukotka Peninsula (photo by A. Belikovich).
13 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) Subarctic zone Beringian woodland This area is characterized by the dominance of dwarf trees, the conifer Pinus pumila (Fig. 5.4) and broad-leaved Alnus fruticosa s.l. (Fig. 5.5). This vegetation occurs widely in the basins of the Anadyr and Penzhina Rivers, on the Koriakskiy mountain range, northern half of Kamchatka, southernmost Kamchatka (Lopatka Cape), and on the Commander Islands and northern Kuril Islands. The dwarfpine zone does not occur in continental areas (Kolyma River), where the arctic zone borders the boreal larch zone. Kolesnikov (1955) proposed that the presence of more or less extensive tundra patches on plakors (zonal sites, or eu-climatopes ) should be a criterion for distinguishing the Beringian woodland area. By this criterion the Beringian woodland area extends due south along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk to Magadan, including the northern Koni Peninsula. Although the Beringian woodland occurs only in the submaritime, maritime and suboceanic sectors, the vegetation does gradually change from mainly Pinus pumila thickets inland to mainly Alnus fruticosa thickets in coastal areas. Scattered Larix dahurica trees are a stable component of the vegetation, increasing inland. These can form Figure 5.4. Dwarf-pine thickets in Northern Kamchatka: 1 = Pinus pumila communities, 2 = inversion communities of Betula ermanii on the warmest slope positions, 3 = inversion communities of tall herbs on snow-accumulation sites (photo by P. Krestov).
14 106 Chapter 5 Figure 5.5. Alnus fruticosa thickets on Paramushir (Northern Kurils). The snow patches remaining through the summer are characteristic of the maritime and suboceanic sectors of the Subarctic zone (photo by P. Krestov). small forest patches in river valleys and on southern slopes. Mires with Carex appendiculata, Eriophorum spp. and Sphagnum spp. occur widely in areas on permafrost. Small patches of forest dominated by Populus suaveolens and Chosenia arbutifolia occur in river valleys, in combination with wet grass meadows (Yurtsev et al. 1978). 3.3 Boreal zone Eastern Siberian larch area The larch area is one of the largest homogeneous phytogeographical areas in the whole circum-boreal zone. It stretches from the tundra (continental regions) and Beringian woodlands (maritime regions) in the north to the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk (northern boreal zone) and Amur basin in the south. Larch forests extend westward to the Yenisey River, where they are replaced by spruce (Picea obovata) forests (Sochava 1956). The main feature of the area is the dominance of Larix dahurica s.l. on zonal sites (Fig. 5.6). Despite the great variety of ecological regimes and climatic conditions in larch communities, the species composition remains surprisingly homogeneous over the whole range from south to north and from west to east. Several seral species, mainly Betula platyphylla, Populus suaveolens and Alnus hirsuta, may accompany Larix dahurica on zonal sites. River valleys are occupied by forests of Populus suaveolens, Salix udensis, S. rorida and Chosenia arbutifolia. The dominance of shade-intolerant larch over such a large territory is caused by the severe climatic conditions and permafrost, which can be tolerated only by Larix dahurica.
15 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 107 Figure 5.6. Larch taiga in Magadan. Larix dahurica covers all parts of the relief: slopes, valleys and ridges. A Pinus pumila shrub is in the foreground (photo by P. Krestov) Eastern Okhotsk dark-conifer forests This area lies in the middle of the Kamchatka Peninsula, between the Sredinniy and Vostochniy mountain ranges. Larch and spruce (Picea ajanensis) form the forest here, in the locally submaritime climate made possible by the mountains that block both Okhotsk and Pacific air masses (Man ko & Voroshilov 1973). The area is surrounded by Beringian woodlands to the north, with Alnus fruticosa as a dominant, and by birch (Betula ermanii) forests plus tall-herb meadows to the south, east and west. Spruce and larch forests represent zonal vegetation in the area. Although this is not the northernmost extent of spruce, it is the coldest part of the geographical range of Picea ajanensis. The spruce forests of the area are characterized by the predominance of circumboreal or Pacific-boreal species in all layers. Larix dahurica forests in this area dominate mainly on sites with intensive disturbance regimes caused by fires or volcanic activity, or in areas with a locally subcontinental climate lying to the south of the conifer island. The structure and floristic composition of the larch forests are similar to those in the continental part of eastern Siberia. Populus suaveolens, Chosenia arbutifolia and Salix udensis forests represent the valley vegetation of the area. Grass meadows are typical for the floodplain of the Kamchatka River.
16 108 Chapter 5 Figure 5.7. Stone birch forests on Kamchatka (photo by V. Yakubov) Northern Pacific meadowbirchwood area Stone birch (Betula ermanii) forms forests on zonal sites in southern Kamchatka and the middle Kuril Islands (Iturup, Urup), in a severe sub-oceanic climate with cold summers, mild winters, and nearly equal distribution of precipitation throughout the year (Fig. 5.7). Another important zonal vegetation type, the tall-herb meadow, develops on areas of snow accumulation. Both vegetation types characterize the cold, wet, sub-oceanic climate within the northern boreal zone (Shamshin 1999). The main, most widespread community type in the area is the stone-birch forest with tall herbs (Senecio cannabifolius, Filipendula camtschatica). On well-drained sites the proportion of mesophytic herbs increases (e.g. Geranium erianthum, Saussurea pseudotilesii, Artemisia opulenta). Tall herbs, in combination with Calamagrostis purpurea, form subalpine-like meadows in wetlands on extensive areas mostly in the southern and eastern parts of the area. Populus suaveolens, Chosenia arbutifolia and Salix udensis forests represent the valley vegetation. Their characteristic features are dominance by tall herbs in the herb layer Western Okhotsk dark-conifer forests Picea ajanensis is the dominant species in the Western Okhotsk Dark-Conifer Area (Fig. 5.8), occurring in the submaritime and maritime climates in the middle and southern parts of the boreal zone. Spruce forests within this area cover the southern Dzhugdzhur Range, eastern Stanovoy Range, the area between the Amur and Uda Rivers, the northern Sikhote-Alin Range, all of Sakhalin, Iturup
17 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 109 (southern Kurils), and the Pacific side of Hokkaido (Man ko 1987). On the north and west, this area borders the eastern Siberian Larch area. On the south it contacts the northerntemperate mixed-forest area. The main vegetation type is pure spruce forest in the north or mixed with firs (Abies nephrolepis or closely related A. sachalinensis) in the south. Abies sachalinensis, however, can form pure stands in southern Sakhalin and in the southern Kuril Islands. Several other spruce species also form communities within this area. Picea koraiensis (close to Picea obovata and Picea abies) forms stands in well-drained river valleys in continental areas, and Picea glehnii forms stands in wetlands at a few places in southernmost Sakhalin and on Kunashir, Shikotan and Iturup (southern Kurils). Extensive fires decreased the modern range of spruce forests, with secondary larch forests replacing them. Larch forests are the second important vegetation formation in the area. If seed sources are present and wildfires do not recur, spruce can replace larch on zonal sites within years after fire. The basic vegetation types in river valleys are larch forests and woodlands, Populus suaveolens and P. maximowiczii forests, and Chosenia arbutifolia, Salix udensis and S. rorida forests. Grass meadows with Calamagrostis purpurea develop in the lowest areas. Sedge (Carex appendiculata) and sphagnum bogs occur widely across the zone, in depressions with cool-air drainage over permafrost and on poorly drained sites. Figure 5.8. Western-Okhotsk Ajan Spruce taiga: Abies nephrolepis-picea ajanensis forest on the Miaochan range, north of the Amur River (photo by P. Krestov).]
18 110 Chapter Northern temperate zone This zone lies in the basin of the Amur River and on the spurs of the Sikhote-Alin, Badzhal, Lesser Hingan and Chyornye Gory mountain ranges (Krestov 1997). The Amur valley permits oceanic air masses to penetrate deeply into the interior, shifting the eastern boundary of the continental climate considerably further inland. In addition, the continental cold air masses continue building over the winter, creating a strong contrast between summer and winter. Winter temperatures are extremely low for a maritime region at 40 latitude ( 20 C mean for January), and summer temperatures are relatively high (August means to +22 C), with high humidity. The high mean annual temperatures (+2 to +5 C), with the strong seasonal contrast, permit occurrence of a great variety of vegetation types on zonal sites. The continentality gradient causes a change in vegetation that ranges from drought-tolerant oak forests in the interior to species-rich mixed broadleaf-conifer forests in coastal areas. Three areas are recognized in this northern temperate zone Daurian broad-leaved forests Most of this area lies in northeastern China, reaching northeastern Mongolia in the west (Fig. 5.9). On the Russian territory it appears in the upper Amur basin, called Dauria, and in the basin of Lake Hanka (Kolesnikov 1956a). These areas have been strongly influenced by human activity for many centuries, which partly explains the current state of vegetation in the area. The modern vegetation cover contains meadows, bogs and forests in nearly equal proportions. Most meadows and some bogs areas were transformed into agri- Figure 5.9. Mongolian oak forests on southern spurs of the Sikhote-Alin Range. Quercus mongolica forms patches on northern slopes in combination with meadows of Arundinella anomala (photo by V. Verkholat).
19 Forest vegetation of the easternmost Russia (Russian Far East) 111 cultural lands. The basic forest type is Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica), forming pure stands or mixed with Betula davurica. All components of the forest communities are drought tolerant and fire resistant. Fire is the most important factor influencing natural selection in the oak forests. Meadows in the zone occur on sunny, well-drained slopes (steppe-like meadows) and in lowlands next to boggy vegetation. The characteristic feature of the meadows is the presence of xeric and xero-mesic herbs and grasses (Cleistogenes kitagawae, Stipa baicalensis, Arundinella anomala, different species of Astragalus, Galium, Scabiosa, Allium, and Artemisia, etc.). Mesic and hygric meadows dominated by Miscanthus sacchariflorus and Calamagrostis langsdorffii occur in lowlands. Pinus densiflora (near Lake Hanka), P. sylvestris (in the upper Amur), Armeniaca sibirica, and Ulmus macrocarpa form small patchy stands on hill slopes and ridges Manchurian mixed forests This area of temperate mixed forests (broad-leaved trees plus five-needled Korean pine) lies on the spurs of the Sikhote-Alin range and the southern spurs of the Lesser Hingan, Bureinskiy and Badzhalskiy ranges (Fig. 5.10). The main vegetation type is mixed forests co-dominated by Pinus koraiensis and various broad-leaved tree species: Tilia amurensis, T. mandshurica, Fraxinus mandshurica, Quercus mongolica, Betula costata, Abies holophylla (only south of 44 N), Kalopanax septemlobus, Phellodendron amurense, Ulmus japonica (Kolesnikov 1956a, Krestov 1997). In most communities the number of tree co-dominants is 3 5 species. At m above sea level, the temperate communities may be enriched by boreal dominants Picea ajanensis and Abies nephrolepis. Figure Mixed broadleaf + Korean Pine forests on the Sikhote-Alin Range (photo by P. Krestov).
20 112 Chapter 5 Other vegetation types in the area include broad-leaved valley forests of Ulmus japonica and Fraxinus mandshurica on old, stable parts of river valleys; Populus maximowiczii and Populus koreana (in fact close species) on younger parts of river valleys; and Chosenia arbutifolia on fresh alluvial deposits. Poorly drained parts of the Ussuri valley are occupied by grass meadows. Old-growth forests in the area have been drastically reduced in the 20th century as a result of forest exploitation and fires. Secondary forests are represented by mixed broadleaved forests with no conifers, Betula platyphylla and Populus tremula forests, and Quercus mongolica forests with no conifers, depending on site ecological conditions and kind of damage Northern Japanese mixed forests The temperate vegetation in suboceanic southern Sakhalin and the southernmost Kurils (Kunashir, Shikotan, Zelioniy, Tanfilieva) differs from the temperate vegetation on the mainland, in terms of dominants and species composition, due to the influence of the Japanese flora (Fig. 5.11). The main vegetation type is mixed Abies sachalinensis-quercus crispula forest with sasa (short, fruticose broad-leaved bamboo). Most of the area lies on Hokkaido, north of the Kuromatsunai Lowlands, where it borders the area of Fagus crenata forests (Miyawaki & Nakamura 1988). The zonal vegetation in the area is mixed Abies sachalinensis-quercus crispula forest with an admixture of broad-leaved species such as Kalopanax septemlobus, Tilia maximowicziana, and Fraxinus mandshurica. Figure Mixed broadleaf + Sakhalin fir forests on Kunashir (southern Kurils). The moist lowlands are occupied by wet meadows of Carex thunbergii, Calamagrostis langsdorffii, and Myrica tomentosa, fringed by Alnus japonica-fraxinus mandshurica forests. Ulmus japonica and Fraxinus mandshurica form forests with Lysichiton camtschatcense, Symplocarpus renifolius, Trillium camschatcense and Dryopteris crassirhizoma in the understorey (photo by P. Krestov).
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Village shops: 'Like Chocolat…, but better'
Bridget Graham looks at five very different approaches to saving the village shop
Published in October '14
Dorset's village shops may change format, change hands or both, but thanks to the determined people who run them, they remain a cornerstone of many villages' lives. In this piece, we'll look at five that have ridden recessions, survived supermarkets and forged a bright new beginning as the centres of their respective communities.
Nine years ago, Pascal Surret, and his partner Marc Watton bought a house as a weekend retreat in the Winfrith area and, when the shop's future was threatened in 2013 by the then owners' retirement, Pascal and Marc decided to buy it and to create a new life.
Pascal is responsible for day-to-day operations, Marc is both bookkeeper and baker. While the hours are the same as his old job in the City of London, Pascal is no longer tied to a computer: 'I feel like I really make a difference here, rather than being part of a big machine,' he says.
The shop's team of part-time staff includes Margaret Sawyer who has run the Post Office for over 25 years and Sheila Wheller, who has been shop assistant for nearly as long. Two more staff were taken on six months ago.
There are world foods, gluten-free food, and – bien sûr – a whole French section of gourmet foods and fresh croissants each morning, Marc's mini-quiches on the deli counter, and a huge basket of fresh vegetables by the door.
Author Janet Gleeson moonlights as volunteer marketing assistant. She researches the price comparisons around the shop and also calculated the cost of petrol to get to the supermarkets: £7 to get to and from Dorchester before you've bought a thing. Each Friday, Janet and Pascal pack a basket of goodies and visit nearby Marley House Nursing Home so that less-mobile residents can still buy sweets and treats. Villager Sharon Narraway explains: 'The previous shop was strong on the basics but Pascal has brought a new look and feel to it.' Janet Gleeson adds, 'When I first described the shop to city friends, they all said that it sounded just like the film Chocolat. I told them that it is – but better!'
Bob Clyde and Anne Younger were looking for a change of lifestyle when Bob accepted redundancy from his job in computer consultancy; they fell in love with the Isle of Purbeck and, whilst the Langton shop wasn't even for sale, Bob gave his contact details to the owners. He was surprised to get a call from them just two months later to say that they had changed their minds. Bob and Anne began opening the shop on Sundays from Easter to the end of October, added a Lottery terminal and mobile and utilities top-up to the store's offer. The post office has developed as a local banking facility and, whilst letter post may be down, parcel post is up.
It stocks everything from a well-priced range of wines, penny sweets for children, toiletries, kitchenware, greeting cards and postcards. There are local foods including bacon and sausages from pigs reared in the village by Phil Samways. In the window, posters for local events are to the fore, underpinning the shop's place as the hub of the High Street, perfectly placed as it is in the centre of the village between the school, the church, the village hall and the pub. It also has the essential support from full-time residents. 'If you live in a village that's lucky enough to have a shop, then you support it,' says Langton resident Richard Martin. 'No one can buy everything they need but everyone can buy something.'
Retirement is now on the horizon for Bob and Anne so the Langton Village Store is now on the market: 'Village shops are such an important part of community life and we hope to find a buyer who understands that. It's very special that we get a wave from everyone when we drive along the High Street. But it's time for a new team to take over and take it to the next stage.'
As Bob puts it: 'Whoever comes after us here will have a lovely life in this beautiful part of the world.'
Chettle Shop is something of a rarity for, like the village itself, it is owned by the Chettle estate. Housed in an old army hut bought for the purpose in the 1930s, it has been part of village life ever since; Susan Favre and her daughter, Alice, of the Chettle estate are committed to keeping it that way. Mrs Favre fought off the Post Office's threat to close the post office at the shop, and until recently, the estate has subsidised the shop heavily.
'We are seven miles from Blandford and the nearest supermarket so it's important to have a place to buy local produce and everyday groceries,' says Alice. 'The shop is a real hub, especially during the summer, and there is something sweet about the slightly wonky, old army hut that has a great deal of charm.'
The shop was run by tenants until 2000 when the estate took it over. Xanthe Green is the Chettle Shop's second manager and was travelling around India, Nepal and Malaysia with her partner and their two young sons when her brother, who lives in the village, emailed to tell her that the estate was looking for a new manager. The fact that it came with a house in an ideal place for her sons to grow up in and go to school sealed it. After a Skype interview with the Favres, Xanthe was offered the job…and the task of making the shop profitable.
She gave up some of the garden of her new home to create an area for café seating and created more parking. Xanthe gave the shop a fresh look, but was also keen to get the stock right from the start so – while still in India – she devised a customer questionnaire. Many responded asking for lunch-time snacks, so award-winning pies from Chunks were introduced together with freshly made coffee and Chettle-made cakes, which are now promoted on a hand-painted sign on the A354… and many a driver makes the detour to the shop.
Many villagers are keen home bread-bakers, so there is a choice of organic flours, as well as Long Crichel Bakery's organic bread, meat from the Langton Arms Butchery and Angel Cottage Organics' chicken and pork, and, when in season, wild venison from the Dorset Game Larder. There are also gardening gloves, screwdrivers, and torches and horn-topped walking sticks made by Larry Skeats. It's hard work and long hours, but Xanthe is actively supported by Mrs Favre who, though well into her seventies, puts together the shop's order from wholesaler Bookers and then drives to collect it each week. Emily Matthews has now joined Xanthe at weekends and in the holiday season as the business develops.
For Xanthe:'It's a privilege to be given the opportunity both to live in such an idyllic village among so many friendly people but also to be given a chance to try to turn a business around and make it unique, reflecting not just my own ideas, but also those of the villagers and people further afield.'
A shop first opened on the site that Motcombe Community Shop occupies 185 years ago. Four years ago, the previous owners couldn't find a buyer when they wanted to retire, so a trio of friends, concerned about the prospect of Motcombe (population of around 1500) without a village shop and post office, called a public meeting, which was attended by 200+ villagers and which explored the possibility of a community-owned shop; it was an idea that met with huge enthusiasm.
A management committee secured £29,500 funding from the Sowing Seeds Local Action Group, £20,000 from the Plunkett Foundation and a £20,000 loan from the Co-operative Bank. Fundraising events netted more and Signpost Residents Community Fund donated £2500 towards the shop's refit. 167 villagers bought £72,000 of shares and a further £18,000 was generously donated by individuals. A local kitchen-maker built gondola units, shelving, and a beech-topped till unit. The result is a bright, fresh and customer-friendly shop, stocked with an excellent mix of essential, luxury and local food, newspapers and magazines, flowers and plants and a great gift section of jewellery, art and crafts and even socks from local enterprise, Charlton Alpacas. There is a café area inside and out, and thanks to a National Lottery grant two years ago, there is now an office and storeroom.
Alan and Kay Francis thought they had retired to Motcombe, but quickly became involved with the shop. Alan is shop Treasurer and Kay is the shop's paid full-time manager. She leads a team of five paid part-time shop and post office staff and fifty volunteers who keep the shop open for 61 hours each week.
Liz Sugden is one of the volunteers. 'It's good fun,' she says, 'It's a very happy place to work, with good quality things and pretty much everything you need.'
Motcombe native Gail Lloyd not only works in the Post Office but also volunteers and makes sandwiches for the shop. 'It's the best place I've ever worked,' she says.
Motcombe's Community Shop may be a recent initiative, but the village of Halstock pioneered the concept over twenty years ago. Halstock's current shop could be mistaken for a Georgian village shop with its double bow windows and fanlight-topped door but it was only built in 2001. Halstock and nearby Corscombe faced losing their local shop first in 1990. Rising rates gave the owners of the original shop, on the village green, no other option but to close. The bus service to Yeovil had already been withdrawn and the nearest shop was over three miles away and it had no post office. The Parish Council decided that Halstock's shop was 'too precious to lose'.
A small group was formed to investigate community ownership and a parish meeting was held. Enough villagers promised funds if premises could be found and a committee was set up. A cottage on the edge of the village was offered and planning permission was obtained for change of use. £15,000 was raised from residents through shares and debentures to set up and stock the new shop. In 1991, it opened for business seamlessly on the Monday after the old shop had closed on the previous Friday.
'A very forward thinking group of people got together to undertake anything necessary,' explains Tony Woodroffe, current chairman of the community shop committee and a director of Halstock Village Shop Ltd. Among them was a determined trio: Richard Fry, Derek Smith (who died in 1997), and Betty Harris, who has lived in the village for fifty years and has stepped in to manage the shop several times over the years. She claims that she was just 'the gofer; Richard and Derek were the brains. Derek picked it up and ran with it like a hero.' One of the first champions of community-ownership, Smith was founder of the Village Retail Service Association (ViRSA), the forerunner of the Plunkett Foundation.
The committee realised that the shop's long-term success depended on purpose-built premises in a central location in the village. A plot fronting the main road became available and was bought from Magna Housing for a mere £1. £225,000 was raised through a mortgage of £95,000 from Triodos Bank and shares and debentures sold to 37 villagers. Encouraged by the Plunkett Foundation to apply to the Big Lottery Fund for a maximum grant of £50,000, the village was delighted to be awarded the full amount at the end of 2012. The sum paid for initial staff wages, equipment including energy efficient chillers, an EPOS stock system, and a redesigned layout and refurbishment, and there is still a post office.
Today the shop is flourishing, the Derek Smith Community Room is the venue for art shows, coffee mornings, a police surgery, bridge games, an art group, and a monthly Holy Communion service, a children's library and computer access and classes for adults. The shop is a collection point for the Yeovil food bank and there is even a defibrillator, mounted outside. Quite literally, the shop is the beating heart of the village.
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