EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.7
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
B NATIONAL PARK PLAN 2008 -– STATUS ANALYSIS E
(2) The National Park Plan is laid down by the National Park administration after hearing National Park advisory board, public
interests of the towns bordering the National Park area, municipalities, as well as under §29 of the federal nature conservation
law in the version valid at 3rd April 2002 accepted federations and the federations, which are to be enlisted according to § 35
paragraph 1 of the Hesse nature conservation law, and is approved by the ministry responsible for forestry and
natureconservation in accordance with the Ministry of regional planning.
(3) The National Park Plan is to be put up first to the 31st December, 2006. It is to be updated when required, at the latest after
ten years. Paragraph 2 is applied.
(4) The plans and measures of the National Park and those of the Nature Park should be aligned with each other.
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Scientific Documentation and Research
(1) The scientific documentation and research after §4 paragraph 1 No. 6 refers to the periodic, investigations concerning the
development on a continuing basis and to specific single investigations. Documentation and research have the particular goals:
1. to explore the construction and the development of natural and semi-natural long-term relationships,
2. to deliver knowledge for nature protection, for silvicultural science and silvicultural practice
3. monitoring for Habitats Directive and Birds Directive,
4. To acquire knowledge for the development of the National Park,
5. to explore the impact of anthropogenic Immisionen activities and disturbances in the natural cycle, and
6. to support the National Park management in the fulfilment of its tasks.
(2) Where the National Park Office itself does not carry out research, it coordinates all research projects in the National Park.
Research projects by a third party are to be brought into agreement with the National Park Authority. It can ban the research
project, if the impact of the project on the conservation objective could be expected to be disproportionate to the projects
success or would not accord to the regulations of this prescription.
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Education and Public Relations
The purposes and tasks of the National Park are to provide for the general public, considering the protective role, education and
public relations; particular measures are to
1. Promote the understanding of woodland and ecological connections,
2. Explain about the protective role, and
3. Give information and offers for experience of nature
in order to develop and contribute to nature education and general environmental education.
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Recreation and Path plan
(1) The National Park is available to the general public for the purpose of physical recreation, as long as this does not contradict
the protective purpose under §2.
(2) The National Park may only be accedet on especially marked routes for own risk, exclusive used by wheel chairs, bikes and
horse riding. To control the recreational and visitor traffic the National Park Authority can decree measurements for visitor
management and additional exceptions.
(3) Equipment used for recreational purposes is used by individuals at their own risk.
(4) The carrying out of organized or commercial horse sledge and wagon trips needs the approval by the National Park
Authority.
(5) The Route Plan shows the present stage and the intended development of the roads and paths whilst considering the
protective purposes of §2 in the National Park. The Route Plan is also intended to display large, un-cut areas especially in areas
where, the forest is left to develop in a natural way without being managed. The Route Plan serves in particular to control
visitors and contributes to the fulfilment of the recreational order and educational order. It is a component of the National Park
Plan.
(6) The National Park Authority can, in consultation with the municipality involved, close or restrict the use of non-public roads
and paths in the area of the National Park and in the property of the land Hesse, subject to a third parties rights, if necessary for
nature protection objectives.
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