Some specific names are given to highly degraded grasslands that are particularly damaged.[1] Heitutan is a term that simply signifies severely degraded grasslands.[2] A more common and more extreme term to describe degraded grassland is “black beach” or “black-soil-land”, which is exactly what it sounds like: land with nothing but black, unusable soil that extends 10–15 cm below the ground level.[3] In the winter and autumn seasons, this land is naked of any vegetation whatsoever; but in the summer and spring, it is at least populated by toxic herbage.[6]