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Great horned owl The forests of the Jizera Mountains are not only beautiful to look at, but also full of life. The rare, critically endangered fir beetle, whose development takes several years, finds refuge in the rotting wood. The night sky is enlivened by the majestic beech martin, one of the largest butterflies in Europe. Beech martin The cool ravines are home to the spotted salamander, while the rocky walls serve as nesting grounds for the peregrine falcon and the great h

The foothills, granite bedrock and high rainfall all shape the unique form of the local vegetation. The granite provides few nutrients, the climate is cold and humid, so the plants here have to be hardy and adaptable. In addition to the dominant beech, there are also sycamore, large-leaved linden, mountain elm and common ash. In the undergrowth in more favorable places we can see poisonous lycopodium, multi-flowered cockscomb, perennial fennel and fir bark. Alpine milkweed, c

The main dominant of the Jizera Mountains beech forests is the European beech – a tree that literally has a privileged position in Europe. The beech is a European endemic, which means that it naturally occurs only on our continent. Beech forests have their own atmosphere It survived the Ice Age in southern parts of Europe and gradually spread across most of the continent after its end. Beech is one of the most important elements of the temperate deciduous forest biome in Euro