Bogdaniec Nature Reserve

The Bogdaniec Nature Reserve is a forest reserve in the Janów municipality in Częstochowa County, within the Trail of the Eagles' Nests Landscape Park. It protects beech woods on limestone hills with rock outcrops.

What the reserve protects

The protected area is a forest with natural features: fertile mountain beech woods and thermophilous orchid beech woods, as well as tall rock walls with rock vegetation, including brittle bladder-fern and mosses. The beech habitats occupy two extensive hills, Bogdaniec and Koziarska Góra, with numerous summits. The relief here is varied, which gives the reserve scenic value.

The plants found here include sweet woodruff, yellow archangel, May lily, large-flowered helleborine, coralroot bittercress and nine-leaved toothwort. The aim of protection is to preserve the forest ecosystem for natural, scientific and educational reasons.

Practical information

• The reserve lies in the Janów municipality, in the Natura 2000 area Ostoja Olsztyńsko-Mirowska and in the Złoty Potok Forest District.
• The rules of entry and the course of the accessible paths are set by the order establishing the reserve; before your visit check them with the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Katowice or with the forest district.
• In the area is the Siedlec Desert, about 2.5 km from the reserve.