Janów Forests Landscape Park, (

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: ''Park Krajobrazowy Lasy Janowskie''), is a Polish Landscape Park designated

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in southeastern

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.Poland.travel/en-us: Janowskie Forest Landscape Park
. accessed 5.22.2016.

Geography

The park is within two Polish voivodeships, in northeastern Podkarpackie Voivodeship (Subcarpathian Voivodeship) and southwestern

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. It is located north of

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and south of

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. The park protects , and has a buffer zone of . It was established in 1984. Janów Forests Landscape Park is a

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Features

The park's forest landscape is varied, with meandering rivers and streams,

meadow A meadow ( ) is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non- woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as they maintain an open character. Meadows can occur naturally under favourable con ...

s, and dune embankments. In drainless depressions with water flow there are vast

swamp A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...

s and

peat bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muske ...

s. Visitor attractions include

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, horseback riding, fishing, and Polish folk culture places and events. The Puszcza Solska Landscape Park is also in the area.

Ponds and wetlands

Large complexes of constructed

pond A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression (geology), depression, either naturally or artificiality, artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing ...

s cover a total of more than with

wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...

s and open water. They are 150 years old, with many built on natural swamps, taking advantage of the underground geological formations. The Imielty Ług nature reserve is at one of the pond complexes within Janów Forests Landscape Park.

References

External links

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Poland's Official Travel Website: Janowskie Forest Landscape Park webpage
Landscape parks in Poland Parks in Lublin Voivodeship Parks in Subcarpathian Voivodeship Forests of Poland Wetlands of Poland Natura 2000 in Poland Lubaczów County 1984 establishments in Poland Protected areas established in 1984 {{Poland-protected-area-stub

Geography

Features

Ponds and wetlands

See also

References

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