Mountain meadows above the settlement of Dolní Pláně
Mountain meadows above the settlement of Dolní Pláně These are mountain meadows on the southern slopes of the Ještěd ridge on the edge of the settlement of Dolní Pláně. The meadows are now among the endangered biotopes of foothill and mountain immortelle grasslands without the occurrence of common juniper and the biotope of mountain three-stemmed meadows, spring snowdrops grow on Nácko meadow and many orchids used to bloom here. […]
Spring meadow of the Průrubský brook
Spring meadow of the Průrubský stream Our association has been taking care of the spring of the Průrubský stream, located under the road between the villages of Zásada and Plavy, since the spring of 2022. The location is connected to the Průrubí VKP, which includes communities of waterlogged meadows with Mayflower, a spring, a coniferous and beech-spruce forest. In the very waterlogged meadow with an area of 0.5 ha, spring snowdrop (Leucojum vernum) blooms in early spring. […]
VKP Zadní Zbytky
VKP Zadní Zbytky A mosaic of peat, sedge and meadowsweet meadow is located south of Smržovka. The meadow was unmanaged for a long time and gradually degraded. Blackberry bush began to expand locally, old growth accumulated here, elm meadowsweet, broad-leaved cattail, soft honeysuckle and other competitively stronger taxa spread. Willows grew locally (in the herb layer of willows, in places […]
Waterlogged meadow with marsh orchids in Háje nad Jizerou
Waterlogged meadow with fingerlings in Háje nad Jizerou This is a wet to waterlogged meadow in the Pekelsko area above the village of Háje nad Jizerou. The meadow had not been mowed for several years, with a layer of old growth and invasive woody plants growing at the edges of the meadow. The meadow is a critically endangered biotope of non-calcareous mossy fens. In 2016, abundant […]
Globeflower meadow in Babylon and Popelka Valley II
Upolin meadow in the Babylon and Cinderella Valley II VKP In 2022, we expanded the care of additional meadows with an area of 0.5 ha in the Babylon and Cinderella Valley II VKP in Lomnice nad Popelkou. We started by mowing the meadow with the most numerous occurrence of Trollius altissimus in the vicinity of Lomnice nad Popelkou. Upolins occur in abundance here, but unfortunately there was a threat […]
VKP Volavecké stráně II
VKP Volavecké stráně II Our association has been taking care of a steep slope in VKP Volavecké stráně since 2021. During 2022, we obtained approval to take care of a nearby meadow also located in the VKP and we started mosaic mowing. Invasive woody plants and expansive blackberry bushes began to spread in this meadow. There were also other negative […]
Meadows in Obora in Lomnice nad Popelkou
Meadows in the Game Reserve in Lomnica nad Popelkou Meadow behind the Rohan beech in the Košov Game Reserve The wet forest on the edge of the Lomnická Game Reserve has been uncut for a long time, there are the highest meadowlarks there, although their number is not high precisely because of the absence of mowing. We started mowing the meadow with an area of 0.7 ha in 2022, our goal is to suppress the invasive wolf […]
Mountain meadow near Čihadník - Dolní Planá
Mountain meadow near Čihadník – Dolní Pláně Our association began taking care of a meadow with an area of 0.5 ha located on the southern slopes of the Ještěd Ridge near the former Čihadník quarry in 2022. The meadow with the now endangered biotope of the mountain three-leaf meadow had not been mowed for several years, thanks to the initiated mosaic mowing, the occurrence of dominant species will be suppressed and competitive […]
VKP Rybničky
VKP Rybníčky Rybníčky near the town of Lomnice nad Popelkou are a registered significant landscape element. The locality represents an important biocenter in the agriculturally used landscape. The existing biotope consists of a complex of water bodies, valuable moor meadows, sedge meadows, wetland willows and waterlogged alders. The entire biotope has many other functions – water retention in the edge, influence on the microclimate, support of landscape stability, etc. […]
Ještěd – VKP Vápenice
VKP Vápenice – rare flora A meadow with an area of 0.2 ha is located on the Ještěd ridge and is part of the EVL Vápenice – Basa. It is one of the most valuable localities in the region with the occurrence of lime-loving meadow and rock vegetation, including species No. Orchideaceae – male orchid (Orchis mascula subsp. Signifera), then common oregano (Origanum vulgare), […]
