- info@feuer-eis-touristik.de
- +49 8022 66364-0
For over 30 years, the non-profit organization Bergwaldprojekt e.V. has been organizing volunteer weeks to preserve the diverse functions of ecosystems, to make volunteers aware of the importance of and threats to our natural resources and to encourage a broad public to use natural resources in an environmentally friendly way.
By choosing a regional travel offer, you are conserving resources and can experience the recreational value of local nature. Feuer und Eis Touristik supports your choice of a regional travel offer with a donation to Bergwaldprojekt e.V., for the protection and preservation of the forests in the Tegernsee/Schliersee region.
Together with our customers, partners and service providers, our aim is to make our tours as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible and to protect and preserve our unique natural environment.
The mountain forest project has been working in the Schliersee forestry operation of the Bavarian State Forests since 2006. We build trails and maintain the forest in the protection forest restoration. High seats are erected to support hunting. This is the only way to ensure that a native, stable and mixed protection forest grows.
One of the most important tasks of the mountain forest project is the creation of footpaths. It is the basic prerequisite for all subsequent forest management measures. In order to bring tools, plants and volunteers into the mountain forest, large differences in height often have to be overcome. This is where trails are irreplaceable. They are also used for effective hunting and for monitoring the areas by forest rangers and professional hunters. The mountain forest project constructs these paths professionally in the natural soil to prevent rapid erosion and maintains them for many years.
One of the main tasks of the mountain forest project is to establish mixed mountain forest by planting rotten trees in storm and bark beetle clear-cut areas or as pre-cultivation. This is necessary in the Bayrischzell district where the protection forest is aging and grassed over and consists only of climate-stable spruce trees THE MOUNTAIN FOREST PROJECT IN SCHLIERSEE Water protection Erosion protection .
The vast majority of the work areas are located in protective forest restoration areas. Here, the volunteers select suitable planting sites that are located around and under old wood stumps, rocks or hilltops. They protect the plants from sliding snow and, due to their position in relation to the sunlight, are free of snow more quickly and release the stored heat to the plants. Fir, beech and larch are mainly planted. The plants are autochthonous, i.e. native to the location and adapted to the climate, location and soil.
In the mountains, trees form protective communities above a certain height to support each other and form a stable bulwark against the snow. This is because cold is the limiting factor for growth here. The snow can accumulate and sink in the spaces between these “rotts”. Individual trees that do not have the protection of the rotting are often uprooted or broken off by the dynamics of the snow. This is prevented by the rotten tree formation.
The protective function of the forest against avalanches and sliding snow is thus optimally fulfilled if these rotten areas are properly maintained. “Snow alleys” are created between the rotations, which the snow needs to flow away slowly. The trees to be removed are topped at breast height, delimbed and left in place — they interrupt the snow cover and slow down the flow of snow.
Storm wood is debarked to prevent bark beetles. In this way, the trunk does not provide a habitat for the larvae of the copper engraver or the spruce bark beetle and mass reproduction is prevented.
Regulating game populations to a natural, forest-compatible level is an essential prerequisite for natural regeneration. This applies above all to deciduous tree species that are at risk from browsing and silver fir, which grow very slowly anyway on the water-poor Rendzine sites in Bayrischzell. Hunting is necessary to restructure the forest.
The aims are to bring the forest closer to nature, increase the proportion of deciduous trees, provide more structure and increase biodiversity. For this reason, the mountain forest project carries out individual protection measures for the small trees. The important tree species thus grow up without browsing. The mountain forest project also supports hunting by district managers and professional hunters by setting up high seats and mobile driven hunts and cutting hunting lanes.
Further information at: www.bergwaldprojekt.de