Manual moor maintenance near Bad Wiessee serves biodiversity

Created: 01/10/2023 08:15

By: Fridolin Thanner

Gabriel Häsch (trainee), Albert Wurm (forest manager and assistant trainer), trainees Jonas Hanses, Simon Angler and Simon Hanisch as well as master trainer Jakob Eberl lent a hand during the bush clearing campaign of the forestry company in Streitmoos.

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District – The Schliersee forestry company has made a contribution to nature conservation with a campaign near Bad Wiessee.

The trainees maintained a bog.

Preserving nature conservation and biodiversity – many people are committed to this and there are many ways to do it.

The new forestry trainees at the Schliersee forestry company have made a special contribution.

You recently worked on a care campaign in the Streitmoos.

The wet meadows in the Bad Wiessee forest district, which are very valuable for biodiversity, threatened to overgrow with young trees and bushes, the forestry company reports.

After the campaign, the meadows are now getting more light again and can be preserved in the long term, says forest operations manager Jörg Meyer with the young forest workers.

The Streitmoos lies at almost 1200 meters and is one of the highest flat moors in the Tegernsee valley.

"It is located on fen soil and was used agriculturally for centuries as a litter meadow," explains Meyer.

Mowed once a year.

But because the areas have not been used for agriculture for years and are no longer mowed, more and more young trees and bushes are growing.

The flowering plants that need more light are left behind and are being pushed back more and more.

"Many plant species, some of which have colorful flowers, would disappear in this way, and with them many insect species that depend on these flowering plants," explains Meyer.

In order to avert the long-term threat of overgrowth of the litter meadow, the Schliersee forestry company has been tending the areas again since 2019 - funded by the Holzkirchen Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry.

So that the sensitive areas are not damaged by heavy machines, mowing is done with hand tools.

"The prospects are good that in a few years you will even be able to admire orchid species here again, such as certain orchids," says Meyer.

Another goal is to improve the moor water balance by closing ditches.

To do this, the trainees lent a hand under the guidance of district forester Hannes Deininger and training foreman Jakob Eberl.

The district also wants to protect its valuable nature.

You can find out more about this here.