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I would like
to show you some
aspects of the culture and of agricultural use of farmland. Big
areas nowadays are no longer in use by farmers. This is certainly true
for Bialowieza clearing ('Polana Bialowieska' in Polish), a big
farming area in the forest. Because of that native flora and birds have
great opportunities to return.
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View
from the past in 2003, conserved for tourism: old style "skansen"
with roof from reeds in Budy. |
Holes
in the stem of century old Pines is the natural place of living for bees.
Honey from Bialowieza is well known, though less and less produced this
way.
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These
houses, made from timber and with roofs from reed can only be seen in
the open-air museum in Bialowieza
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Traditional
entrance of a wooden house and garden in Bialowieza.
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In
the village such houses, made from wood from the Bialowieza forest, gradually
disappear...
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So
do these agricultural strips of only six or eight meters width...
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Fiat
126's. This traditional small
Polish-made car is still popular in some parts of Poland |
Lada,
a slightly bigger car which is also very easy to repair yourself
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Valley
of the Narewka stream on the edge of Bialowieza forest
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Agriculture
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The
farmland on the left is (still) in use, while the land on the right has
not been used for a few years
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Mixture
of spontanuous plants on a former agricultural land
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Local
Hawfinch
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As
the farmer uses no pesticides this field is coloured by native weeds
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If
corn is not grown anymore, other plants take their chance
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A
former hayfield, where some Broad leaved marsh orchids try to survive
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The
future of our heritage ?
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At the right the construction of a new and modern, "comfortable"
home has started- there is no future for traditional wooden houses in
Bialowieza
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The
ancient oak from late Medieval times still standing - on the right a fragment
of the first hotel of Bialowieza - rebuilt in the 21st century
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Waste
dumped beside a hiking trail of Europes oldest lowland forest - a common
view which is widespread through the forest
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The
forest being sold to mass tourism - we can only hope it will help her
- but today - cars from urban Poland are in ever growing numbers
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After
a long and inspiring trekking our simple minds encounter the "merits"
of free market commerce in Puszcza Bialowieska
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Four
stars - is such a fantastic forest really only attractive if there is
Disney-resort comfort?
How it comes that Bialowieza loses its charm? |
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Sundown
near Bialowieza
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Sundown
on Lutownia stream
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Shortly
after sundown on Pogorzelce clearing - Bialowieza forest at the horizon
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Sundown
on Bialowieza clearing
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Sundown
in Bialowieza Palace Park
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The
same place on another evening |
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A
game played by sun and clouds on Bialowieza clearing
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The
same place another day |
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(c)
Frank Verhart - Last update:
24
March 2007
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