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Fotograf: Roland Persson
Lixhultsbrännan, Naturreservat
- Nature reserve
- County: Kalmar län och Öland
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Description
As the name suggests, there has been a fire in this forest reserve. The fire has provided the forest with a lot of dead wood and paved the way for deciduous trees to sprout. This is appreciated by wood-boring fungi and bugs, among others.
Characterized by forest grazing...
In the past, cows grazed in the forest around here. The cows came from Lixhults village, which was a few kilometers away. To improve the pasture, the farmers burned in the forest. The fire fertilized the ground and opened up to the sun's rays. The result was a patchy forest with a lush and tasty grass.
...and fire
Sometimes the burning got out of hand and the forest began to burn uncontrollably. Charcoal burning, which was common in these forests, also posed a significant fire risk. Lightning strikes also caused forest fires.
After fire comes leaves
In the reserve there are several areas with deciduous fires. These are forests rich in deciduous trees, which have grown up after forest fires. The light-loving deciduous trees dominate the forest for a while after the fire, but in the long term they are outcompeted by the more shade-tolerant spruce. For the organisms associated with deciduous trees, it is therefore important that the forest burns at regular intervals.
Valuable aspens
One tree species that tends to sprout after a forest fire is aspen. There are areas in the reserve where almost only aspen grows. Some of them are old and coarse, some have died. The aspen forest is home to many of the reserve's more unusual species, such as the aspen leaf beetle, candelabra fungus and crusty yellow lichen.
Activities And Facilities
- Nature reserve
Facts
Decision year: 2009
Area: 198.7 hectares
Municipality: Högsby
Landowners: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and individuals
Administrator: Kalmar County Administrative Board
Directions
From Högsby you drive towards Fågelfors. Just after Högmosshult and Ekenäs, a small forest road runs south of the road. There are two parking facilities along the road through the reserve, the first at Övre Leksjön and the second a few hundred meters further on.
Regulations
In the nature reserve you are not allowed:
- Drive a motorized vehicle off designated roads or trails.
- Park a vehicle, caravan or trailer in a place other than designated parking spaces.
- Camping for more than one day in the same place.
- Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
- Bringing a dog or other animal that is not on a leash.
- Picking or damaging mosses, lichens or wood fungi.
- Digging or pulling up vascular plants.
- Damage or remove trees, stumps, bark, branches, shrubs or brush that are growing or dead.
Full regulations
C. Regulations for the public 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 reserve.
It is forbidden to enter the reserve:
- drive motor vehicles other than on existing roads.
- set up motor vehicles, caravans or trailers other than on specially designated roads and places
- camping for more than one day in the same place
- disturbing wildlife
- bring an unleashed dog or other loose pet
- picking or damaging wood fungi, mosses or lichens
- digging or pulling up vascular plants
- Damage or remove growing or dead trees, stumps, bark, branches, shrubs or brush.
The regulations under C do not apply to owners or holders of special rights to property or holders of other rights.
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Per Markus Jönsson
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