Östra Ejaröd

Welcome to Östra Ejaröd Nature Reserve

The forest in Östra Ejaröd has been left to grow naturally. In the past 50 years, only timber and wood for domestic requirements has been chopped down. This has created a dense forest with thin, sometimes multi-stemmed, beeches interspersed with occasional specimens of oak, wild cherry and birch.

The forest will be left to age undisturbed, while careful conservation clearance will result in more dead wood, producing important habitats for fungi, wood-living insects and breeding birds. Within the beech forest you find marshy deciduous forest dominated by birch. A large erratic block, Klåhall, is found in the southern part of the reserve.

The nature reserve is divided into two parts, which in addition to forest contain natural pastures. A pond, Lindgrens grop, is found in the northern pasture. Great crested newts spawn
here, and the pond is also an important feeding place for bats. The treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) is the only small bird in Sweden which is brown with a curved bill and climbs up trees like a mouse. It is rarely spotted anywhere apart from on tree trunks.

Regulations

Within Östra Ejaröd Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• damage fixed natural objects or surface formations,
  
• bring unleashed dogs or other loose pets,
  
• pick or dig up plants, pick mosses, lichens or wood-living fungi,
  
• deliberately break up, or collect and remove dead wood.
  
  Without permission from the County Administrative Board it is forbidden to:
  
• collect invertebrate animals, e.g. beetles. Occasional specimens may be collected providing it is not contrary to species protection regulations and that traps are not used.
  
• place out alien objects (e.g. geocaches or similar).
  
  Furthermore, without permission from the manager it is forbidden to:
  
• put up boards, signs, posters, paper strips or similar, or make inscriptions.