Forchet
The Forchet is a species-rich, partially protected snow heather - pine - landslide forest at the confluence of the Ötztal into the Inn valley . It is located on the Tschirgant landslide area , which extends over the communities of Haiming , Roppen and Sautens in Tyrol and was partially designated as the Tschirgant landslide nature reserve in 2009.
geography
Around 3000 years ago, gigantic rock masses fell from the Tschirgant into the Inn Valley . This landslide is divided into two events, the Tschirgant landslide and the Haiminger landslide (both starting from the Tschirgant massif). On an area of 12.3 km², calcareous rock debris and sometimes huge rubble covered the valley floor up to the entrance to the Ötztal. On this hilly Tomalandschaft a species-rich Schneeheide Pine Forest landslide, today Forchet developed over the millennia. Forchet is now the name of the pine forest that covers the valley floor and is bordered by the Inn in the north . In the west the Forchet ends at the settlement borders of Roppen , in the south at the settlement borders of Sautens and in the east at the settlement borders of Haiming . Ötztal-Bahnhof is in the middle of the Forchets and divides the forest into two areas: the western part of the forest, which is largely designated as a nature reserve “Tschirgant-Bergsturz” , and the part of the forest between Ötztal-Bahnhof and Haiming that is not under protection.
Flora and fauna
The Forchet is home to a variety of protected animal and plant species. Due to its location and structure, it was spared economic use for a long time, which makes it the last larger near-natural valley forest in the Inn Valley today.
Endangerment and conservation initiatives
There are conflicts of use between the settlement expansion of the neighboring communities, which endangers the forest, and nature conservation. To this end, the citizens' initiative "Protect the Forchet" was formed in Haiming at the end of 2013 , calling for the nature reserve to be expanded to include the entire Forchet forest.
Web links
- Citizens 'Initiative Protects the Forchet - Homepage of the Citizens' Initiative Protects the Forchet, accessed on November 18, 2014
- "The Forchet needs our protection" - article in Oberländer Rundschau of February 11, 2014 about the citizens' initiative Protect the Forchet, accessed on November 18, 2014
- Tschirgant Bergsturz nature reserve - description of the Tschirgant Bergsturz NSG on the Imst district homepage, accessed on November 18, 2014
- Geowege Forchet Sautens, Haiming, Roppen - extensive information on the Geowegen of the Ötztal Nature Park Association, accessed on November 7, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Haiming biotope inventory (PDF), accessed on November 6, 2014.
- ↑ The landslides from Tschirgant and von Haiming, Oberinntal, Tyrol (PDF) , accessed on July 31, 2020.
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '18 " N , 10 ° 50' 53" E