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By: Hans Moritz
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The Erdinger Moos is the largest moor area in the district, which Maximilian Trautner looks after.
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There is now a moor manager in the Erding district.
But what does he actually do?
We met 33-year-old Maximilian Trautner.
Erding – Moors are refuges in nature and important CO2 stores.
They are gaining ecological importance again, and some areas are becoming waterlogged again.
A dedicated moor manager – Maximilian Trautner – takes care of the sensitive habitats in the Erding district.
The 33-year-old lives in Marzling.
But what does a moor manager actually do?
“It's about increasing awareness of moorland protection, making land available for protection projects and taking measures to renaturate moors." Trautner also sees it as his job to inform and raise awareness among the public, especially in agriculture.
“It’s not an easy job,” admits Trautner.
“There is always a certain potential for conflict, as moor protection means a big change for many people who live in and manage the moors.” Most people are very aware of and important to climate protection.
“The moors used to be deliberately drained, but today people are trying to renaturate them,” reports the 33-year-old.
Many are ready to do something, but need professional support.
Trautner provides this through advice, among other things, on funding applications.
“For example, I try to explain to farmers what the negative effects of drainage are on the moor soil and how long-term moor-friendly development and use of their land is possible with higher groundwater levels.
Once the groundwater reaches a certain level, greenhouse gases that are harmful to the environment can again be bound in the moor.”
Trautner knows that funding opportunities for wet moorland use will be expanded this year.
When providing advice, collaboration with the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry is essential in order to pool expertise.
“The goal is to find the right solution and perspective for every land user and owner,” says the moor manager.
There are options to exchange moorland for drier areas or to lease or sell moorland to a provider for protective measures.
On the other hand, the moor manager also advises communities on the implementation of moor protection.
They can become project sponsors themselves and benefit from funding for climate protection through the protection of wetlands.
The fact that Trautner's position was created at all is thanks to the Free State's goal of renaturalizing 55,000 hectares of moorland by 2040 or bringing it into a state that reduces greenhouse gases.
“Moors store six times as much carbon as an equal area of forest.
“In addition, eight percent of Bavaria’s greenhouse gases can be traced back to emissions from drained moors,” says Trautner.
In the Erding district, around ten percent of the area is moorland, especially the Erdinger Moos, but also along Sempt, Schvillach and Isen.
“In Erding we use the moors intensively.
This is due to the high infrastructure, the high settlement pressure and the gravel mining in the moor areas.
We also have the major airport project,” says Trautner.
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The topic of moors has been on his mind since he studied landscape architecture and landscape planning in Freising.
As part of this, Trautner already wrote his bachelor's thesis on this topic.
“It kind of hooked me,” he reports enthusiastically.
“Moors are simply incredibly fascinating natural areas.” After his studies, he worked in the nature conservation association and for the government of Upper Bavaria in the field of nature conservation.
Trautner is also committed to climate and sustainability in his free time.
His heart's project is the food-sharing café “überg” in Freising, which he co-founded.
It works against food waste by only serving food made from rescued food - in return for a donation.
There is also a “Fairteiler”, a collection point where food that would otherwise be thrown away by retailers but is still perfectly edible is given away free of charge.
“I have been an environmentally conscious person for a relatively long time, which is precisely why the topic of moors immediately fascinated me,” says Trautner, who likes to cycle from Marzling to Erding.
Ramona Höllerer