Gäle Virgin Forest Nature Reserve
Nature reserve in Sweden
62°55′42″N 14°42′28″E / 62.92833°N 14.70778°E / 62.92833; 14.70778Gäle Virgin Forest Nature Reserve (Swedish: Gäle naturskogs naturreservat) is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden.
The nature reserve protects an area of surviving old-growth forest dominated by spruce in a landscape otherwise heavily forested. Trees up to 300 years old grow in the reserve. The unspoilt forest with its coarse woody debris provides a habitat for several red listed or unusual species such as Schismatomma pericleum, Chaenothecopsis viridialba, Haploporus odorus and Anomoporia bombycina.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Gäle naturskog" (in Swedish). Jämtland County Administrative Board. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
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