Elcuki

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Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:33

Three years have passed since the first koniks were released on the estate Elcuki. The family Rubeni here have fenced out there pastoral lands approximately 50 ha. show that it can be grazed with koniks and cattle. Elcuki lies just above Grobina next to the Tasu Lake. It exists from sloping half open landscape with several ponds and marshes. Parts of the area (4ha.) exist from botanically riche wet meadows, which already before grazing was started had deserved a protected status. But also the remaining grass lands where old and relatively rich, but they were already more than ten years out of use. As a consequence large parts of the area where grown over with a thick layer of dead grass and they quickly where growing over with Salix bushes. Experience teaches us that meadows like this have high botanic potentials because as we have seen before, a couple remainders of botanically riche wet meadows can be a sign that still much of its richness lays hidden under the layer of dead grass.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 August 2011 20:52