A nature reserve in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The reserve is located in the village of Zloty Potok, Janow municipality, Czestochowa county, Silesian province. It has a charforest-landscape acter. It is managed by the Zloty Potok Forest District. It was created on September 3, 1957 to preserve the hills with fragments of the Wiercica valley, as well as rock formations and old-growth forest. Area 155.22 ha.On the territory of the reserve we can distinguish: ash-alder forest, subcontinental oak-hornbeam, Sudeten beech forest, warm orchid beech forest, acid lowland beech forest, mixed pine-oak forest and fresh pine forest. Flora (selected species): red grenadier bear garlic lily of goldenseal leafless storzane nine-leaved viviper Fauna (selected species): alpine glandworm Carpathian springtail goatsucker rainbow trout brook trout gniewosz buzzard wood pigeon wood pigeon blue wild boar roe deer
04.07.2013
