OUT AND ABOUT IN MRKISCHE SCHWEIZ - MRKISCHE SCHWE

Through co-operation between the Mrkische Schweiz natural park, the environmental education centre Drei Eichen (Three Oak Trees) - www.dreieichen.de - and the LAG Mrkische Seen, together with your support we will actively help to shape the natural park and its environment. In the environmental education centre, we will be making preparations for the expansion of the outdoor games and recreational area. There is an area between two houses which needs to be freed from nettles, mug wort shrubs and rubble, so that a aeurooeterrace areaaeuro can be built out of robinia and Douglas fir wooden planks. In the natural park, we will be taking on various landscaping projects: one of which will be to clear away the Himalayan Balsam in the area, mostly in particularly sensitive areas such as the embankments near the water. We will be supported on this project by the rangers of the natural park. Together with the regional forestry offices, we will remove conifers in the moorland as part of a marsh protection project in order to positively influence the water supply. We are also planning to remove plant shrubs from a dry grassland area, in order to preserve this particularly sensitive habitat for endangered species. By mowing an orchid meadow with a scythe, we will also be able to familiarize ourselves with its historical usage.