Rezerwat Torfowiska Doliny Izery
Facts and practical information
The Izera Valley Peat Bogs Nature Reserve - a peat bog nature reserve in Lower Silesia, located in Mirsk municipality and partially in the Szklarska Poreba municipality. It includes, among other things, part of the Izera Hall, and at its border there is a tourist hostel Chatka Górzystów.
Created in 2000 to protect the peatland vegetation, it replaced the 44.72 ha Izerskie Peatland reserve, created in 1969 to protect the dwarf birch stand. There are also mountain pine, mountain juniper, black crowberry, cloudberry, peat mosses, sundews, sedges and woolly adelgid. The reserve has an area of 529.36 ha. The sequence of high and transitional bogs was created as a result of high precipitation and stagnation of water on impermeable ground, as well as clearing of wet coniferous forests by Czech settlers. The small peat bogs that had existed before expanded, while the forests did not regenerate.
The Izera peat bogs started to develop already at the end of the ice age, which makes the deepest deposits 11 thousand years old.
The area of the reserve is under active protection.
Model of peatland vegetation occurring in the reserve was made available in the Didactic Garden of the Three Elements Izery in ¦wieradów Forest District in ¦wieradów-Zdrój.
Lower Silesian
Lower Silesian