Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park

Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park is a country wide park in the Dutch province of Utrecht. When it become founded in 2003, the park included 6,000 ha of heathlands, moving sands, forests, grass lands and floodplains. In 2013 the park became prolonged to 10,000 ha including the region north of dual carriageway A12 when the ecoduct Mollebos become found out. The most striking panorama characteristic is the glacial ridge after which the park is known as.

The panorama of the park dates from the following-to-closing ice age, Saalien. Afterwards the land changed into reshaped with the aid of the drifting sands, the rivers and the effects of human occupation. Intensive land use, reforestation and the building of united states estates transformed the advent of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug over the centuries. The history of the location is pondered within the wide type of soil kinds, comfort and land use. The Utrechtse Heuvelrug is the second one biggest woodland area in the Netherlands. In the woodland some relics from the original submit glacial forests may be found, together with very welland beech. In the park several marten species may be found, which include the European badger and the European pine marten.