Skoghejdan

Welcome to Skoghejdan Nature Reserve

Grazed, flower-rich slopes mixed with groves of large oaks and beech trees await you at Skoghejdan Nature Reserve. Alder carr and small lakes are hidden in the wet hollows. Our animals have grazed here since the Bronze Age and continue to do so today. Their grazing muzzles in combination with the varied countryside mean that many different species thrive here. If you are lucky you may spot a barbastelle bat hunting insects at dusk, or the lesser capricorn beetle searching for food in the dropwort flowers.

Due to the calcareous soils and grazing animals, the pasture is full of flowers. On the drier parts, plants such as dropwort and breckland thyme thrive, whereas in the wet hollows, early marsh orchid, devil’s bit scabious and quaking grass flourish, frequently visited by butterflies, hoverflies, beetles, and bees.

Many insects raise their larvae in the old wood pasture trees. In the spring and summer, you can see the adult beetles and hoverlfies looking for pollen and nectar in the flowers in the pasture.

In the spring, frogs and newts gather in the small pools of Skoghejdan to mate. Their serenading can be heard from a long distance away on still evenings.

Regulations

Within Skoghejdan Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• crack, dig, bore, paint or in any other way damage stones, boulders, or other geological formations,
• erect any kind or installation or put out any, for the Reserve, foreign object,
• break branches, fell or in any other way damage living or dead, standing orfallen trees and bushes,
• pick or dig up plants,
• damage fences or other structures,
• catch, collect or introduce insects or other animals or in any other way disturbthe wildlife,
• bring a dog or any other pet not on a lead,
• horseride other than on the forestry road,
• light a fire,
• camp or park up a caravan, camper van or equivalent,
• drive a motor vehicle other than on the designated roads or car parks,
• park other than in a designated car park,
• use radios, musical instruments, or other sound equipment in a disturbing way,
• put up notices, signs, inscriptions, posters, tape, or any other equivalent items.