Hulsig Hede - the Heath (Moorland)
Afgrænset af Skagen Klitplantage i nord, Tornbakkerimmen ved Hulsig i syd samt Skagerrak og Kattegat i vest og øst strækker den øde Hulsig Hede sig over 20 km2 og bliver dermed den største af områdets lokaliteter.
Uanset om man besøger Skagen pr. bil, tog eller cykel, går vejen over dette vældige sandflugtsområde, og man fornemmer Skagen som et øsamfund. Helt konkret blev denne fornemmelse i 1996, da en storbrand på heden afbrød vejforbindelsen til Skagen det meste af en dag.
En massiv tilgroning med selvsået bjergfyr har truet med helt at udslette hedens oprindelige mangfordighed, men med hjælp fra EU's LIFE-projekt er heden ny blevet ryddet.
Der er gode chancer for at observere strandtudse, lille vandsalamander, hugorm, markfirben, ræv og rådyr. Ligesom Løgfrø er fundet i området.
Kilde: Eigil Torp Olesen, Skagens Odde - en naturguide
Bordered by the Skagen Dune Plantation to the north, the Tornbakke Ridge at Hulsig to the south and the Skagerrak and Kattegat to the west and east, the deserted Hulsig Heath extends over 20 km2, making it the largest of the area's sites.
Whether you visit Skagen by car, train or bicycle, the road passes over this vast sandy plain and you sense Skagen as an island community. This feeling became very real in 1996, when a major fire on the moor cut off the road link to Skagen for most of a day.
A massive overgrowth of self-seeded mountain pine threatened to completely wipe out the moor's original diversity, but with the help of the EU's LIFE project the moor has been cleared again.
There are good chances of spotting Natterjack Toad, newts, vipers, sand lizards, fox and deer. As well as Common Spadefoot Toad or Garlic Toad have been found in the area.
Kilde: Eigil Torp Olesen, Skagens Odde - en naturguide
Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union. It is made up of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs). The network includes both terrestrial and marine sites (Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)).
(French: L’Instrument Financier pour l’Environnement)
The LIFE Programme is the European Union’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value.
Hulsig Hede er en resterne af flere vandrende klitter, sandmiler.
En kombination af hede og mose, dækket lyng i våde områder, men også omfattende områder med græsser som marehalm og hjælme i klitterne.
Imellem finder vi en række vilde bær som revlinger, mosebøllebær, tranebær og Tyttebær.
Det er et beskyttet område og en del af et projekt kaldet Natura 2000 som er delvist finansieret af EU LIFE projekt
Truslerne / målene er:
Genoprette naturlig hydrologi. I løbet af de sidste 100 år har opdyrkning drænet jorden i store dele af projektområdet. Dræning er primært opnået ved at grave grøfter, så jorden kan bruges til landbrug.
Fjernelse af trævæksten. I mange år plantede befolkningen vegetation primært i form af hegn og skovplantager. De mest almindelige træarter var såsom bjergfyr og Sitka gran. Disse arter spredes nu naturligt i de unikke, følsomme naturområder
Fjernelse af Rynket Rose. Rosa Rugosa - Hybenrose, der betragtes som en invasiv art, spredes hurtigt i områderne langs Jyllands vestkyst, herunder i Skagens Odde, hvor det truer de lokale indfødte plantefællesskab på afkalkede faste klitter og klitter
Målet er at bevare og forbedre landets unikke natur med sine klitter, sandmiler og strandpræget sletteformede landskab med rimmer og dopper - og for at beskytte det oprindelige miljø for de lokale arter af planter som orkideer og Soldug, frøer, padder, insekter og små firben.
De anvendte metoder er:
Fældning - fyrretræerne og granerne bliver flået og solgt til varme- og kraftværker, der producerer el og fjernvarme
Afbrænding - Kontrolleret afbrænding forventes at genoprette vegetationen af lyng, klokkelyng, revling, tyttebær m.m.
Græsning - Genindførelse af husdyrgræsning vil have stor økologisk genoprettelse af floraen i disse områder og være af værdi for bestræbelserne på at holde etableringen af trævæksten i kontrol.
The Heath is a the remains of several migrating dunes.
A combination of heathland and moorland, covered with mostly heather in wet areas, but also extensive covering of grasses as lyme grass and marram grass in the dunes.
In between we find a variety of wild berries like Black Crowberry (revlinger), Bog Bilberry (mosebøllebær), Crane berry and Lingonberry (Tyttebær).
It's a protected area and a part of a project called Natura 2000 and partly financed by EU LIFE project.
The threats/goals are:
Restoring natural hydrology. Within the past 100 years, people have been draining the land in large parts of the project area. Drainage has primarily been achieved by digging ditches so the land can be used for farming.
Removing tree growth. For many years, people planted vegetation primarily in the form of hedgerows and forest plantations. The most common tree species were such as mountain pine, lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce. These species are now spreading naturally in the unique, sensitive natural areas
Removing Japanese rose. Japanese rose, which is considered an invasive species, is spreading rapidly in the areas along the west coast of Jutland, including at Skagens Odde, where it is threatening the indigenous plant community on decalcified fixed dunes and sea dunes
The aim is to preserve and improve the unique costale nature of the headland with its sea dunes, decalcified fixed dunes and beach ridge plain landscape of ridges and hollows (swales).
And to protect the original environment for the local species of plants like orchids and Sundew, frogs, toads, insects and small lizards.
The used methods are:
Cutting - the pines and spruces are chipped and sold off to Heat and Power plants producing electricity and district heating
Burning - Controlled burning is expected to restore the vegetation (heather (lyng), cross-leaved heath (klokkelyng), crowberry (revling), lingonberry and more)
Grazing - Reintroduction of livestock grazing will have great ecological restoration value for the meadow flora in these areas and be of value to the efforts to keep the establishment of tree growth in check.
Links og litteratur / Adresse, matr.nr. og ejerliste
https://eng.naturstyrelsen.dk/nature-protection/nature-projects/life-hulsig-hede/