It is relatively untouched by commercial use, and thus the area has scientific value as a "reference site" for spruce-fir forests of the Urals.

The Basegi's geology is stable Lower Paleozoic and Proterozoic quartzite, facing the surface, with lesser amounts of granite and diabase.

[1] Basegi is located in the Urals montane tundra and taiga ecoregion, a region that covers the Ural Mountains in a band that is narrow from west-east, but runs up most of the divide between European and Asiatic Russia.

The region is a meeting zones of taiga and tundra tree and plant species.

There is an 'ecotourist' hiking route to the top of North Basegi Mountain in the reserve, however, that is open to the public.