Objective
Carinthia and Styria have decided to take joint action to preserve the Hörfeld wetland complex. The actual implementation is the responsibility of a small, local NGO (the Naturschutzverein Hörfeldmoor), chaired by the local mayor. From 1994 onwards, preparatory work was carried out for a management plan, completed at the beginning of 1997. With LIFE support, the following selected objectives of the plan will be implemented:
Afforestation of parts of the mire as a result of succession will be counteracted and intensification of land use is to be prevented by land purchase (c. 35 ha) and management contracts. Furthermore, valuable habitat structures will be preserved and improved, for instance by laying out pools and renaturalizing brooks. Spruce plantations are to be removed to allow indigenous trees to return, meadows must be cleared of shrubbery and intensively used pastures fenced off. Last but not least, PR-work targeted at raising local awareness will be undertaken.
Bisected by the boundary between the two Austrian Länder Styria and Carinthia, Hörfeld is a gem, a natural oasis of a quality rarely encountered in today's Alpine valleys, which are overwhelmingly intensively exploited. It is a long, 170 ha-sized mosaic of calcareous fens, bog woodland, transition mires and quaking bogs, remnants of alder and ash forest, humid tall-herb vegetation and fringing Molinia meadows. This damp wilderness, which startles visitors to the narrow Görtschitz valley, evolved out of a post-glacial lake which slowly terrestrialized to a massive eight-metre thick bed of peat cut by brooks, pools and "Quelltöpfen", curious wells up to 3 metres deep filled with water. This complex structure provides a habitat for a huge number of rare plants and animals: among others, no less than 125 bird species (30 listed on Annex I of the Birds Directive) and 460 butterfly species occur. In the past there were plans to drain the mire or to build a dam to generate hydro-electric power, until it was made a protected nature reserve in 1984.
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9375 Hüttenberg
Austria
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