Monte Brione Provincial Nature Reserve - permitted activities and prohibitions

Permitted activities

Limits and prohibitions

• Continuation of traditional agricultural activity or with compatible modern techniques on the areas cultivated in 2002.
• Introduction of agricultural crops alien to the traditional context (e.g. intensive planting of minor crops and vegetables) subject to the binding opinion of the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Renovation of tool shelters on agricultural land.
• Access to cultivated land, also with motor vehicles, by owners, tenants or other possessors.
• Forestry based on the forest management plan or prescriptions of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Circulation of motor vehicles for forest use activities.
• Interventions for the maintenance of plants or infrastructures of public interest, after consultation with the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Interventions for conservation, bio-ecological rebalancing, cultural fruition and scientific research, by or on behalf of the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Interventions for the securing and creation of visitor routes to military works of historical interest, subject to authorisation by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Mushroom picking only by private owners of land included in the Provincial Nature Reserve, limited to the individual property.

• Modifying or altering the elements of the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Depositing waste or materials, excavating, changing cultivation, reclaiming or draining land.
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs.
• Placing, removing or damaging plants or parts thereof, collecting or damaging mushrooms or other undergrowth products (except mushroom picking by private owners).
• Hunting and fishing, releasing, taking or disturbing animal species, letting dogs or other domestic animals roam.
• Erecting constructions or artefacts, including temporary ones.
• Water or sewage disposal.
• Clearing forest, grassland and uncultivated areas for agricultural purposes.
• Using pesticides or poisoned bait for purposes unrelated to permitted activities.
• Use mulching with artificial materials.
• Crossing the area with new power, telephone or other overhead/underground lines.
• Leave the paths and wander off them, except for owners/tenants/possessors.
• Entering the protected area with any mechanical or animal means of transport.
• Low-altitude overflying and landing of aircraft.
• Transit of bicycles on roads and paths within the Provincial Nature Reserve, except on specially marked routes.
• Camping, lighting fires, causing disturbing lights, sounds and noises, carrying out competitive or folkloric activities; other organised events require prior authorisation.
• Set up any kind of fence.
• Remove or damage Provincial Nature Reserve signs.