Tag - Dalejów Reserve
The Dalejów Nature Reserve is a forest reserve located in the village of Wołów, in the Bliżyn commune, in the Skarżysko district, in the Świętokrzyskie province. It is located in the Suchedniów-Oblęgorek Landscape Park. It is a partial reserve established in 1978 on an area of 87.25 ha. The purpose of the reserve’s protection is to preserve a forest ecosystem with natural features with a multi-species tree stand, along with habitats of rare saproxylic organisms.
The stands are considered to be remnants of the former Świętokrzyskie Forest. They are mainly composed of fir and Polish larch, as well as beech, oak, pine, spruce, birch, sycamore, aspen and alder. The age of the stands is estimated at 80 to 150 years, with many fine specimens of larch, as well as fir, beech and oak reaching 180 years or more, and the size of monumental trees. The second layer of the forest is equally diverse, made up of trees aged 20 to 70 years. Numerous plant communities have found suitable habitat conditions here:
– a community with downy birch,
– fertile Carpathian beech forest,
– continental marsh forest,
– oak-hornbeam forest,
– mixed forest with fir.
A natural peculiarity of the reserve is the Polish larch of native origin, regenerating from self-seeding and constituting the main or admixed species. It is characterized by very good health, excellent quality of wood. The fir, which occupies a large area, is also distinguished by its high quality. A very interesting specimen of snake spruce grows in the reserve. There is also columnar spruce – a variety of the Świętokrzyskie region. The undergrowth is mainly composed of hornbeam, oak, beech, rowan, buckthorn, spindle, birch, aspen, black elder and coral elder.
In the rich undergrowth we can find yellow wood warbler, common bugle, wood sorrel, wood sedge, wood violet, male common nightshade, wood anemone and many protected and rare species, including: martagon lily, daphne mezereum, spotted orchid, white lesser butterfly-orchid, Siberian iris, common ivy, lily of the valley, mountain abacus, juniper clubmoss and others.
From mosses, we can find Catharienea undulata, Mnium cuspidatum, Mnium punctatum, Politrychum commune, Politrychum attenuatum, Entodon schreberi, Hylocomium spendens, and in wet habitats Sphagnum apiculatum, Sphagnum megallanicum predominate.
The reserve is crossed by the red marked Piekło – Niebo (Piekielny Szlak) tourist trail and the green marked Bliżyn – Zagnań tourist trail, and the black marked Suchedniów – Rezerwat Dalejów tourist trail starts here.
Near the reserve there is the Piekło Dalejowskie nature monument, the Bliżyn – Kopalnia Ludwik and Świnia Góra nature reserves, as well as the peculiar Brama piekielna rock formation.
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