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Hammarsebo brandfält, Naturreservat

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How does nature recover after a forest fire? Which species find their way back to the fire-ravaged forest first? At what rate do tree species establish themselves? Researchers will hopefully find the answers to these questions in this nature reserve.

Oskarshamnsbrännan

Hammarsebo firefield is part of the so-called Oskarshamnsbrännan - a hard-to-extinguish fire that raged in the late summer of 1983. The fire provided a unique opportunity to study how nature recovers after a forest fire. As a result, a 65-hectare area was set aside as a nature reserve. But this was not the first time the forest had burned.

Wood burning and grazing

Researchers have studied charcoal residues in a bog in the area and found that fires were frequent and very long-standing. Many of the fires are probably the result of recurrent burning. Burning involved burning areas where, for example, sword rye could be grown. The forests were also burned to create better pasture for cattle.

First in place

In the first few years after the 1983 fire, many pioneer species appeared. For example, the rare plants sword fist and fire fist sprouted. Their seeds can lie dormant in the ground for up to a hundred years. So the seeds were already in place as a seed bank and were activated by the fire. Insects such as the fire borer and the lesser fire borer and birds such as the skylark and the tree pipit were also present early on.

Nature's way

Nature has now entered a new phase. Almost all the burnt, remaining forest from 1983 has died. Other species are now moving into the forest, especially those that need dead wood to live or forage. In the reserve, for example, as many as 240 beetle species have been found living on dead wood. That's a third of all Sweden's beetles linked to dead wood!

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  • Nature reserve

Facts

Year of decision: 1984
Area: 65 hectares
Municipality: Oskarshamn
Landowner: Sveaskog AB
Trustee: Kalmar County Administrative Board

Directions

The reserve is located between Oskarshamn and Berga. You can get there from the north from Sälleryd or from the east from little Möckhult. Just south of Hällsjöarna you enter the reserve. There are parking facilities here.

Regulations

In the nature reserve you are not allowed:

  • Damage or remove fixed natural objects or surface formations.
  • Damage or remove growing trees, bark or bushes.
  • Pick flowers.
  • Pick or damage mosses, lichens or wood fungi.
  • Digging or pulling up plants.
  • Damage or remove dead trees, stumps, bark or brush.
  • Hunting, killing, trapping or harming wild mammals, birds or their young.
  • Collect insects.
  • Remove or damage eggs or nests.
  • Climbing trees with nests.
  • Being near a bird of prey's nest, lair or burrow.
  • Bringing dogs that are not on a leash.
  • Driving a motorized vehicle, bicycle or other means of transport off designated roads or paths.
  • Build a fire.
  • Camping or setting up a caravan.
  • Use the area for competitions or exercises.

If you have received permission from the County Administrative Board, you may:

  • Conduct surveys or research.
  • Disturb the environment with loud sounds such as music, video or radio.

Full regulations

C. Regulations according to Chapter 7, Section 30 of the Environmental Code on the right to travel and stay in the reserve and on order in general.

Within the nature reserve it is not allowed to:

  1. destroy, remove or damage fixed natural objects or surface formations,
  2. damage or remove growing trees, bark or shrubs, or pick flowers, mosses, fungi or lichens and dig up plants,
  3. damage or remove dead trees, stumps, bark or brushwood
  4. hunt, kill, capture or harm animals, including insect collection, remove or damage eggs or nests or otherwise disturb wildlife, e.g. by climbing nest trees or taking close-up photographs of birds' nests, dens, potholes or the like,
  5. bring an unleashed dog,
  6. drive a motorized vehicle, bicycle or other means of transport other than on existing roads,
  7. make a fire, .
  8. camp or set up a caravan,
  9. use the area for competition or training purposes,
  10. conduct scientific research without the permission of the County Administrative Board, and
  11. use a radio, gramophone, tape recorder or similar in a disruptive manner.

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Per Markus Jönsson

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