KAMANOS NATURE STATE STRICT

RESERVE: NATURE VALUES AND

MANAGMENT EXPERIENCE

dr. Vaidotas Grigaliūnas

Chief ecologist

Kamanos Nature State Strict

Reserve Management Plan

Natural dystrophic

lakes Active raised bog Transitional mire

Depressions on peat

substrates of the

Rhynchosporion Bog woodlands

Western

taiga

Fennoscandian

herb-reach forests

with Picea abies

Fennoscandian

deciduous swamp

woods

Alluvial forests

Skiauterėtasis

tritonas

Scarce Fritillary

(Euphydryas maturna)

Great Crested Newt

(Triturus cristatus) Lady's Slipper

(Cypripedium calceolus)

SAC Kamanos is important area for these species

recorded to anex II of Habitat Directive:

Marsh Fritillary

(Euphydryas aurinia)

Eriophoro-

Trichophoretum

cespitosi

Oblong-leaved

Sundew(Drosera

intermedia )

Inundated Club Moss

(Lycopodiella

inundata )

Sphagno tenelli-

Rhynchosporetum albae

Plant species and communities in Kamanos

reserve recorded to the Red List of Lithuania

European Golden Plover

(Pluvialis apricaria) Black grouse (Tetrao tetrix)

Wood Sandpiper

(Tringa glareola)

Montagu’s Harier

(Circus pygargus)

Eurasian Pygmy Owl

(Glaucidium

passerinum )

Želmeninių ir baltakakčių žąsų telkimasis Kamanų ežere

Bean Goose (Anser fabalis)

Grater White-fronted Goose

(Anser albifrons)

Nascent mires 9,2 thousand years ago

Nowadays

Kamanos reserve hydrographic network

Kamanos reserve is drained by 12 complex drainage systems.

There are 164 ditches in reserve territory, which length consists of about 74 km.

130 dams were built,

29 ditches were dammed in 1999-2000.

Reliable, long-term

dams in Paisle and

Augutis drainage

systems were started to

built in 2002.

PI “Nature heritage fund” administrated the project

“Conservation of inland wetland biodiversity in

Lithuania II” in 2004-2011

Paislė ditch was dammed in

2007. Three types of dams

were tried.

2008

2010

PI “Nature heritage fund” and desing company

“Gedilieta” prepared Kamanos raised bog natural

hydrological conditions research report and

technical project in 2012

(author Gediminas Lietuvininkas).

Projected dams layout scheme in Kamanos reserve

Complited construction of ground dam

The LIFE project "Restoration of proper

hydrological conditions in Amalva and

Kamanos bogs“ (2014-2018)

Amphibian “Centaur” with biaxial trailer

for vinyl sheet piles transporting

Building of vinyl sheet piles dam in mire

Almost 20 m. length dam, which is strengthened with

metal U shape beams in Adomiškis raised bog

Bog habitats management

Before management

Žemės dienos talka-popietė 2008 m.

Management activities

After management works

Management of meadows

habitats

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