The article presents the study results of changes in the plant cover of ribbon forests of the Priobsky Plateau during the Holocene. According to satellite imagery data, a change in the role of different types of vegetation cover, corresponding to the current environmentally friendly conditions of the steppe and forest-steppe zones has been established. Under the conditions of the northern foreststeppe subzone of the forest-steppe zone the share of pine and small-leaved forests accounts for less than half of the area of Burlinsky boron, meadow type of vegetation cover prevails in it, large areas are occupied by marshes and lakes. In the southern forest-steppe subzone of the forest steppe zone, in which the Barnaul boron ribbon is located, pine and small-leaved forests account for about 80% of the area. In the forest structure of the steppe zone, lakes play a significant role. in the south-west direction the proportion of pine and small-leaved forests decreases, but the proportion of treeless areas increases. The authors come to the conclusion that the ratio of vegetation types in the structure of tape burs is due to the spatio-temporal change in the complex of natural conditions on which the anthropogenic factor is superimposed.