A large sector of the range is part of the Bayanaul National Park, a 68,453-hectare (169,150-acre) protected area established in 1985.

The uppermost levels of the mountains are generally rocky and their slopes are deeply dissected by valleys and ravines.

Most flow into the surrounding steppe, their waters ending up in distant salt lakes or dispersed in the sands.

[4][1] Below the rocky summits the slopes are covered by forests where larch and birch predominate.

There is as well steppe vegetation made up of coarse feathergrass and forb grassland areas.