Prästabonnaskogen, Naturreservat

Prästabonnaskogen ligger inbäddad mellan Tjörnarpssjön, kyrkan och järnvägsstationen i Tjörnarp. Lummig bokskog och vältrampade stigar leder till badplatser, bryggor och grillplatser. I skogen finns gamla stenrösen som minner om äldre tiders odlarmödor. I den öppna marken nedom kyrkan finns en våtmark med en utsiktsplattform. I närheten av reservatet ligger den magnifika och historiskt intressanta ringugnen för tegelbränning i Gunnarp. Tre vandringsslingor visar vägen, alla börjar vid järnvägsstationen i Tjörnarp.

In English

Welcome to Prästabonnaskogen Nature Reserve

A broadleaved woodland area awaits visitors at Prästabonnaskogen Nature Reserve. Paths lead you to places where you can swim, jetties and barbequing areas. Clearance cairns and the remains from peat extraction remind us of a long history of human presence.

Parts of the broadleaved woodland are more than 150 years old. There are quite a lot of standing dead or dying trees and logs here. This provides good conditions for plenty of wood-living fungi. Many brackets start to grow where living trees are damaged, which eventually results in the tree dying or breaking. This is how the decaying wood is created, that so many fungi, lichens and insects are dependent upon.

The central part of the woodland grows on land that was once grazed. Here the trees are up to around one hundred years old. The woodland will be allowed to develop naturally and with time, the amount of decaying wood will increase. A more natural, old growth woodland will be created gradually, with all the variety of associated organisms. To the east there is a wet woodland with ash, alder and downy birch.

The dead or dying trees provide food and protection for many small creepy crawlies and their larvae. The table is thus laid for bats and birds. Woodpeckers make holes larger for their nests, which may then be taken over by stock doves or bats, when they are abandoned by the woodpeckers. In the most westerly part of the site, a pond with a wet flush area is planned to provide spawning grounds for fish, including pike that spawn in March-April.

Regulations

Within Prästabonnaskogen Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• damage natural objects or geological formations,
• bring dogs or other pets not on a lead,
• dig up plants, pick mosses, lichens or wood-living fungi,
• intentionally break or collect and remove dead wood.Without permission from the County Administrative Board it is also forbidden to:
• put up signs, posters, plaques, tape, notices or any other equivalent items,
• collect invertebrates, e.g. beetles. One off samples may be collected on the condition that this does not contravene any wildlife protection regulations and that traps are notused,
• put out foreign objects (e.g. geocaches or equivalent).