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The Virgin Forest protected
area "Lom" is established at 1956. It is belong
to mountain KLEKOVAČA, and it is western massif, named
"Lom"- mountain. The Virgin Forest covers 297,8
ha. The core-zone takes (strongly protected area) 55,8
ha (Ia IUCN-category). It belongs to Public Forest Enterprise
“Srpske šume”, State Forest Enterprise “Oštrelj” from
Drinić (Petrovac Drinić municipality), and it is in area
of Management Unit “Lom-Klekovača”, including forest compartments
No 130-134, and 136 too.
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The first ideas about virgin areas protection
are very old, from 1905 (Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy). These
kind intentions are the oldest on these countries area. When
the virgin forest "Lom" was proclaimed as protected
area, a Researching Station of Forestry Institut from Sarajevo
was working in Drinić. It was in fifteenth. Although Drinić
is just small village, there is Ecologic Society today, which
is very active.
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Vegetation of Virgin Forest Lom consists of typical
forest community of Drinić mountain mostly (75%): beach-fir-spruce
forest (Piceo-Abieti-Fagetum illyricum). It grows in amplitude
of 1250-1420 m a.sea, on N & NW slopes of Lom-mountain.
Because of geobotanical situation, on the border of illyric
province, some species areas there touch their eastern border
on this mountain.
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Subalpine beach forest (Aceri-Fagetum subalpinum)
covers 18 % of Virgin Forest Lom area. It is on similar expositure,
on different slopes, in altitude of 1420-1522 m a.s. Important
trees kind participation in this community has syca-more (Acer
pseudoplatanus). The rest of 4% is covered by secondary community
of fir-spruce forest ( Abieti - Piceetum,
1350 - 1470 m).
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Parent rocks of the virgin forest
lom are limestones. Because of that, relief of the Reservation
is very distinctive, and somewhere hardly karsted too. Manu karst
phenomenon are present. Although a limestone is a rock which does
not keep water, and has underground hydrology, there are, there
are two little springs, a few caverns (some of them with everlasting
snow, whish had been commercially bold to ice-cream parlors in
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The family of FUNGI, from the mushroom kingdom,
clearly tells us that we see Virgin Forest.
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Soils on limestone are, as usual,
a dence mosaic of initial litosols, shallow humus soils (calcomelanosol),
middle deep brown calcareous soils (calcocambisol) and deep
illymerized lime soils (luvisol). This spectrum made of links
which belong to the same genesis chain offers very large fan
of growing-plant-conditions.
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This adverting material has been
prepared as a part of study “MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR FORESTS WITH
SPECIAL DESTINATION IN STRICT NATURE RESERVATIONS JANJ AND LOM”
(d Sc Zoran Maunaga and col.)
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