In addition to our mission to protect the World Heritage site’s unique historical values, we have a great responsibility to take care of the cultural and natural values that the site possesses. Most of the land here has not been touched for a hundred years. And some areas have never been plowed or used for agriculture. This makes the site valuable for both wildlife and plants. During 2023, in the company of biologists, a landscape architect, an ornithologist, and the county antiquarian, we conducted an extensive natural value inventory to balance these values against the cultural values we are responsible for managing.
The inventory yielded many fine discoveries. Everything from red-listed bats to rare flowers along the antenna road, and not least the small, blue, and very rare marsh gentian that only grows on land that has never been plowed.
