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Fotograf: Anna Lindberg
Photo: Anna Lindberg
Skrikebo, Naturreservat
- Nature reserve
- County: Kalmar län och Öland
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Description
In this nature reserve you can experience a real old-growth forest. Here, the sound of the saw and axe has long since fallen silent. When the trees die of their own accord, they remain standing or lying for a long time. The decaying wood is appreciated by a wide range of fungi, beetles and birds.
Forest left to fend for itself
Most of the trees in the nature reserve are around a hundred years old, but some are older than that. Some pine trees are up to 240 years old. The old conifers are joined by deciduous trees such as aspen and oak. The mix of different tree species allows for a great diversity of plants and animals.
Teeming diversity
In Skrikebo, you walk on thick, shiny green moss mats and over fallen trunks. There are no marked trails, so you have to make your own way through the forest. Keep an eye out for capercaillie, bittern and titmouse on your way over logs and stones. Several unusual mosses, lichens and fungi are also to be discovered for those interested in the more inconspicuous inhabitants of the forest.
Mushrooms home to bugs
If you've ever picked mushrooms, you may have come across bugs while cleaning your harvest. The bugs eat the mushrooms or use them as a home. One example is the red-necked black beetle, which lives in lint fungi. The lint tick is a light-colored, hoof-shaped tick that you are likely to encounter on your visit. If the tick has circular holes, about 3 mm in size, they may be traces of the red-necked black beetle or its relative the common fungus beetle. You may even see one of the 4-7 millimeter beetles sitting on the outside of the tick!
Activities And Facilities
- Nature reserve
Facts
Year of decision: 2000
Area: 20.4 hectares
Municipality: Oskarshamn
Landowner: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Manager: Kalmar County Administrative Board
Directions
The area can be reached via a small private forest road starting at Skrikebo village. There is a small parking area adjacent to the reserve sign.
Regulations
In the nature reserve you are not allowed:
- Drive any vehicle or craft.
- Set up a motorhome, caravan or similar.
- Camp in tents.
- Ride, drive a horse and carriage or similar outside designated roads or paths.
- Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
- Be closer than 100 meters to a bird of prey's nest, lair or burrow.
- Bringing 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.
- 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 reeds that are growing or dead.
If you have 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 under Section 10 of the Nature Conservation Act on what the public must observe within the reserve.
In addition to what otherwise applies, it is prohibited to:
- drive any kind of vehicle or craft
- set up a caravan, motorhome or similar.
- camping
- Riding or driving horse-drawn vehicles.
- Disturbing wildlife, for example by deliberately staying closer than 100 m to a bird of prey's nest, lair or pot.
- Bringing an unleashed dog or other loose pet.
- erecting a board, sign, poster or similar device or making an inscription
- Build a fire.
- Digging up, picking or damaging plants or parts of plants, with the exception of berries and edible mushrooms for domestic use.
- Damage or remove growing or dead trees, stumps, bark, branches, bushes or brushwood.
- use the area for competition or training purposes without the permission of the County Administrative Board
- carry out commercial activities
- conduct surveys or research without consulting the county administrative board.
Contact
Email address
Per Markus Jönsson
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