6. Military area route

13. Restoration of wet meadows and various restoration problems in the military training area of Boletice

A previously abandoned complex of wet meadows (Molinion alliance in European classification) has been regularly cut since 2008 to maintain or restore populations of rare and retreating plant species such as Iris sibirica, Gentiana pneumonanthe, Carex umbrosa andCarex hartmanii and their respective communities. In addition to this, problems of conservation and restoration in the military training area, which is planned to be reduced in area or completely abolished, will be discussed and demonstrated in the field if possible.

6. Stone quarries of Plešovice and Zrcadlová huť

The metamorphic rock granulite is or was mined in both quarries. The former one is still active but some parts were abandoned at different time. Thus various successional stages, aged between 1 and approximately 25 years, are visible. They are dominated especially by woody species such as birch (Betula pendula), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), willow (Salix caprea) and aspen (Populus tremula). Similar stages are visible in the latter quarry, which was completely abandoned and then left to spontaneous succession. The parts without a dense cover of woody species are especially valuable habitats for various insect and spider species. It will be demonstrated in the field that spontaneous succession is an effective and cheap way of restoration and no technical reclamation is needed except in forming a shape of the quarry which is aesthetically acceptable to the public when quarrying is ceased

19. Český Krumlov, the town of UNESCO Heritage

One of the best preserved medieval towns in central Europe located over meanders of the Vltava River. Many gothic, renaissance and baroque buldings form together a unique atmosphere of the town dominated by the second largest castle in the country (after Prague) and a valuable late gothic church.