As of: February 29, 2024, 9:02 a.m
By: Andrea Gräpel
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Woody material and trees were flown out of the moss with a helicopter on Wednesday so as not to leave wide tracks in the moss with heavy equipment.
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Bacherner Moos: Helicopter use is the lesser evil compared to heavy vehicles.
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- “Moor protection is an important contribution to climate protection, which is why it is important that the areas do not continue to grow,” explains Claudius Birke, head of the LBV district office in Stegen.
At the beginning of the month, the Bacherner Moos began to cut back trees and remove them from the moss (we reported).
The heavy cutting material was removed from the moss by helicopter yesterday.
The LBV developed this idea together with the Lower Nature Conservation Authority.
“We will have around 80 bundles, each weighing up to a ton – that’s how much lifting power the helicopter has.
The bundles are flown to a neighboring meadow and then transported away and processed.” A section of the hiking trail therefore had to be closed.
Two years ago, the district group had already carried out initial clearing work on a smaller, very densely bushy area on the edge of the current area.
This measure was very successful, says Birke.
In addition to various types of peat moss, species typical of raised bogs such as cranberries and stiff-leaved maidenhair moss were also able to establish themselves.
However, the proportion of forest area in the Bacherner Moos has increased drastically compared to 1960.
It is to be expected that as ground vegetation becomes increasingly shaded, light-requiring and endangered species such as rosemary heather, cranberries and round-leaved sundews will gradually disappear.
The LBV Starnberg has therefore made it its mission to preserve these valuable moor areas through area maintenance.
Currently, the increasing bush cover and forestation of downy birch, spruce and buckthorn is to be pushed back on an area of almost two hectares in the core area of the Bacherner Moos.
With the use of helicopters, so-called back alleys can be avoided, which could be misunderstood by those seeking relaxation as a hiking trail and disrupt the sensitive area.
The Bacherner Moos is considered the most valuable silting area with supra-regional importance.
There is a typical siltation zonation from (reed) reed beds to large sedge and intermediate moor stands to litter and wet meadows.
The “spongy-swampy” moss extends directly to the lake shore and oscillates with the lake level.
It was probably managed as a meadow until the 1950s and 1960s.
Since 1994, the Bacherner Moos with the Mouse Island has been a protected part of the landscape under the Federal Nature Conservation Act.