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During the spring action of lifting nesting-boxes
after several hours all dirty. as it happened, he had tried
to take the most effective photo of a stork then. and you
should have seen that look on our seed buyer’s face, when
the same white stork perched, we may say, within a reach
of a hand, under our noses, on the road.”
Yet birds, especially the cranes, are particularly keen of
Novaraistis ornithological reserve.
some time ago, Novaraistis together with the pineries,
growing at the approaches, typical to upland moor, used to
cover a 1000-hectare area. This upland moor has formed
from an overgrown lake, because it was only fed from
the streams of surface waters, none of the rivers refilled
it with water, and only Nova outflowed from it. rich
flora, especially the peat-moss, has squeezed the lake,
leaving only one hectare of open water area there, which
is now being called “the Eye” by the locals. Naturally,
Novaraistis was very lively in all aspects. the lake used
to be embellished by the heaths, marsh teas, blueberries,
rich cover of peat-moss, fecund cranberries, which lured
blackcocks, making all Novaraistis a one big gogglybubbly
place. “there used to be loads of cranes here too,”
the Šakiai foresters write, remembering the time not that
distant. at all times, wolves have lived and reproduced
here, elks liked to drop in and wild boars used to live at the
approaches. there were plenty of whipsnakes, vipers –
adder snakes – and blindworms; and many living beings
as well: interesting animals and insects. still the moor has
destroyed everything. Yet the very peat appeared to be not
much worth either. Novaraistis peatbog was left stranded
in 1990. Šakiai Forest Directorate has without prejudice to
working hours, human and financial resources taken all the
peakbog on their shoulders then. they have reconstructed
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the dike of Nova river, made lifts on the motor ways,
affluented the north part of Novaraistis, which resulted
in the languishing of overgrowth of growing birches, the
development of open areas for birds. at the approaches of
the peatbog the conditions for the growth of upland plants
have emerged, fish have appeared in the affluent areas;
the foresters have built a turret for bird observation and
have fixed the marsh entrance road. today, 33 types of
birds, registered in the list of the EU protected birds, are
tracked in Novaraistis; during the migration in autumn,
over 3 thousand cranes fly over to Novaraistis. there is
even a film created about Novaraistis, titled “raised for
new life”. The author of this film is Vytautas Jankevičius,
who was awarded a Petras Abukevičius prize.
and so today Novaraistis does not cause any big trouble
to the foresters. Yet the forest supervisor sigitas tamošaitis
is worried about another oncoming project; that the forests
surrounding the pearl of landscape and architecture – the
gelgaudiškis manor and park – will be poorly supervised
or completely abandoned. to be exact, after drafting a
detailed plan, the state forest territory, adjoining the manor,
will be transferred to the municipalities or the county. the
supervisor has well-reasoned doubts that the new owners
may lack the specialists, human resources, comprehension
or finances for its management. the manor is really
impressive – it covers a territory of 112.5 hectares along
with the forest park; it is also of a mixed plan: with particular
geometrical elements, and natural crossings to the forests
stretching within the Nemunas valley. the foresters of the
directorate take care of the cognitive path thoroughly and
professionally. here one can not only get acquainted with
the history, but also to see rare trees – Black pine, Eastern
White pine, red oak, and European Beech. only a few
weeks ago, the highest spruce of suvalkija (42.5 meters)
stretched its crown to the sky. Unfortunately, it has already
been well-rotten and endangered the locals and tourists,
thus the foresters have cut it down. Besides, the cut spruce
has not been used as firewood. The cut-offs are now either
exhibited in the VĮ Šakiai Forest Directorate Museum-
Informational Centre, established by the Lekėčiai Forestry,
or transferred to educational institutions. scientific and
biometric researches of the grand tree are going to take
place there. thus we can openly say that despite the fact
that the spruce was cut down, it will still develop the
scientific and cognitive functions, just like the rest of the
exhibits of the museum-informational centre, the total of
over a thousand pieces.
the most of the exhibits have been gathered in the
Lekėčiai neighbourhood; and there are no animal or
taxidermied animal purposely killed for that reason. thus
it was only 20 th of March, 2010 that a diorama of cranes,
donated to the museum by a well-known taxidermist
Kęstutis Bybartas, was finally opened.
the memory is also saved within live trees. With regard
to the state programme of oakery restoration, the foresters
of Šakiai have organized the planting of 30 hectares of
oaks. in the Šakiai commemorative oakery there are
loads of nominal oaks, paying respect to the long-serving
foresters.
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