Tuesday was planned primarily as a short lecture and long field trip type of day. I think that the four locations that we visited were quite interesting; although I kind of wish that we didn’t stand in the tall grass for so long, since my allergies were acting up because of it. Basically, the four locations that we visited were “a large industrial/new Hospital and railway station area,” “an unchanged village with a hobby farmer,” “a landscape village,” and “a nature restoration area.” Unfortunately, I missed some of what was on the bus in terms of housing structures since it wasn’t announced, but overall, I think that the trip was extremely useful in letting us see a lot of the places we could consider working with on our project.
Location #1: we met up with Tue Tortzen, the Chairman of the technical & environmental committee of the Hillerod Municipality, and learned that the area:-wanted to bring back animals, moose swim from Sweden and get hit by cars
-want a Chinese Herbal Factory
-golf area
-need more wetland/pond areas that will be created by stopping drainage
-beaver gone about 2500 years ago, now brought back from Germany
-in DK, if you want to move a forest, you have to promise to build 2x of it elsewhere
-new forest of 5 hect.
-New hospital is highly desired. They won it over because of convincing argument about the railways (total of 5 new ones to be built in Denmark)
-Swedish power plant company uses small trees for power rather than gas
-building new forest with Danish wood, purposely for diversity. Possible question is how to design this forest (10-20 years). Possibly private? Collaboration with Copenhagen water supply, since water brought from N. Zeeland.
-rubbish hills, takes 300,000,000 Crowns to clean
-hawkweed. Poisonous plant covers this area and spreads along the water. Need to destroy and decide to do it environmentally by using 100+ sheep (will clear in 10 years). Others can cut by machine or hands, which creates jobs.
-then the municipality will have sheep to create more jobs. The municipality owns the land and sheep- can rent to farmers
-also collaborate with private owner (poison is cheaper)
-drinking water is big issue. The government did not understand for many years. Now some of it is poisoned from agriculture, and want to work on it now- trying to reuse rainwater for toilet, sink, shower, and create waterholes for ox
-create ridges for rainwater. Investment (will work in 20 years)
- sports clubs in nearby villages/city areas important to play football (get kids outside)
-working on more bike lanes on roads
-no shopping center (not allowed out of the city).
-also try to create new station and new neighborhood for new hospital
Overall, it sounded really nice. A bit skeptical about some of the things, but having a goal oriented towards being environmentally friendly is always good.
-the location has a contrast between fishing and farming
-18th century privatization of Danish landscape. system resulted in land owned by farm, so abandoned
-area here is mostly fisher houses. 3/7 of farms in village, others further out
-hobby farmers focus on nature conservation
-Black cows (good survival opportunities)
-the rest of the areas=grassland, which is interesting because this is all arable land.
-on Danish land, it is easier to build more small farms
-usually 3 farms 250 hect. Now 5 farms up to 1000 hect.
-this farm has a nature protection area. Took 7 years to secure. There is public access.
-forest in the corner is state owned because of white tailed eagle (international designated area)
-cost 200 to 300 Euros /hect. To farm without subsidies (this is why people work in the city)
Location #3:
-“landscape Village” or “Nature City”
-moved houses in by large trucks (portable) and are influenced by Estonian style
-solar panels
-area for biking, walking, skiing
-considered 1/3rd done. What is the next step?
-people living here (in actual houses) have a lot of influence on recreation. Not much on general direction.
-100 meters to highway to Copenhagen. Drive of 45 minutes on a good day
-green areas between houses is quite a bit of nature.
-a lot of area not built waiting for economy to recover
Location #4:
-shallow phosphorous lake less than 1 meter water (permanent reduction in surrounding areas). Many birds/eagles. Cows for landscape management
-new bicycle track. Coast up north to South Hillerod. 15km
-small village with new houses then behind housing area 35 years ago. Farm in conflict
-angry with one of the neighbors who wants something that will cause heavy traffic. Farmer for many years. Hay sells to horse and has berries (is semi-industrial?). need negotiation
-restored three lakes. So far accumulated more than calculated. Should continue unless climate situation changes.
-meadow lake easy because just close drains
-state bought land
Ole Hjorth Caspersen of Forest and Landscape at KU made a lecture of the Hillerod Municipality before we started on the trip, and we got some valuable background information of the regions we were going to be looking at, including- some of the cultural influences and policies that make them the way they are, and the current “new proposals” for these areas.
(lunchtime at a park)
(yay picnic lunch ^^)
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