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Fotograf: Anna Lindberg
Photo: Anna Lindberg
Hultserum, Naturreservat
- Nature reserve
- County: Kalmar län och Öland
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Description
Old, rough trees stretch proudly towards the sky. Dead, fallen trunks slowly but surely decay in the eternal cycle of nature. Thick layers of mosses and lichens rest over rocks and stones. Welcome to an unusual forest where time stands still!
Natural forest
The forest in the nature reserve used to belong to Hultserum village. Here the villagers collected firewood, timber and wood, and animals probably grazed here. But now the forest has been untouched for a long time and there are few traces of human activity. The trees are of different ages, many are really old and there are plenty of dead trees, both standing and fallen. This type of forest is called natural forest. Natural forests are rare in today's modern forest landscape.
Dead wood is alive
Dead wood is in short supply today and many organisms that depend on decaying wood for their survival are on the brink of extinction. A variety of insects, fungi, mosses and lichens are therefore queuing up to settle in and on the reserve's old and dead trees. This is the case, for example, with the rare relict beetle, which lays its eggs in sunlit old pines.
Bearded spruces
Long, hanging lichens drape many of the forest's late-growing giants. Lichen experts can spot rarities such as the pale greenish-yellow yarn lichen and the chestnut-brown species pine thorn. The hanging lichens are valuable in their own right but are also used as nesting material by many birds.
Activities And Facilities
- Nature reserve
Facts
Year of decision: 2001
Area: 43.3 hectares of which 41.7 hectares is land
Municipality: Västervik
Landowner: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Manager: Kalmar County Administrative Board
Directions
The reserve is reached via a private road that starts in Hultserum village, northwest of Ankarsrum.
Regulations
In the nature reserve you are not allowed:
- Drive any vehicle, bicycle or craft off designated roads.
- Camp for more than one day in the same place.
- Ride, drive a horse and carriage or similar outside designated roads or paths.
- Be closer than 100 meters to a bird of prey's nest, lair or pot.
- Bring a dog or other animal that is not on a leash.
- Put up a board, sign, poster or similar device or make inscriptions.
- Build a fire.
- Remove pieces of bedrock.
- Digging, pulling up or picking plants or plant parts. You may pick berries and edible mushrooms.
- Damage or remove trees, stumps, bark, branches, bushes or brush that are growing or dead.
If you have received permission from the County Administrative Board, you may:
- Use the area for competitions or exercises.
- Carry out commercial activities.
After consultation with the County Administrative Board, you may:
- Conduct survey or research.
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.
In addition to what otherwise applies, it is prohibited to:
- drive any kind of vehicle or craft including bicycle other than on existing roads.
- camping for more than one day in the same place
- riding or driving horse-drawn vehicles other than on existing roads
- disturbing wildlife, for example by deliberately staying closer than 100 m to a bird of prey's nest, lair or burrow
- Bringing an unleashed dog or other loose pet.
- putting up a board, sign, poster or similar device or making
- light a fire.
- Remove pieces from the bedrock.
- Dig up, pick or damage plants or parts of plants except berries and edible mushrooms for domestic use.
- Damage or remove growing or dead trees, stumps, bark, branches, bushes or brushwood.
- Without the permission of the county administrative board, use the area for competition or training purposes.
- Conduct commercial activities without the permission of the County Administrative Board.
Surveys or research must be carried out in consultation with the County Administrative Board.
Contact
Email address
Per Markus Jönsson
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