3000 Trees

December 10, 2024

teaser-bildTree-planting at Kluckbach

More than 3,000 trees were planted in four project areas at the end of November. This action was part of the “forest conversion” measure, in which monotonous spruce forest is converted into species-rich deciduous forest.

The spruce is a non-native tree species that was only introduced to the Eifel at the beginning of the 19th century under Prussian rule. Its large-scale cultivation subsequently had exclusively economic aims, the conifer replaced deciduous trees such as beech, oak, birch, maple, ash, elm, willow, etc. With the deciduous trees, however, many other native animal and plant species that live in deciduous forests became rare or disappeared completely. Plant species that use the sunlight on the ground before the leaves emerge and are already flowering. Mosses and fungi that can only live on the bark of deciduous trees, insects that feed as larvae only on the leaves of certain trees or woodpeckers and owls that build and use breeding holes in dead but still standing trees.

Oaks, hornbeams, cherries and willows have been planted along Tiefenbach, Holzbach, Kluckbach and Römerbach. The main benefit of the future forests is to promote the original fauna and flora of the Eifel.

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