Prati di Monte Provincial Nature Reserve - permitted activities and prohibitions

Permitted activities

Limits and prohibitions

• Practice of silviculture based on current regulations, possibly supplemented by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• Access to the land, also with motor vehicles, by the owner or possessor in another capacity.
• Circulation of motor vehicles for forest use activities.
• Maintenance of existing facilities or infrastructures, subject to the opinion of the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Ordinary maintenance of the internal road network within the Provincial Nature Reserve for localised road bed repair and surface water regulation, maintaining the existing typological and dimensional characteristics. Extraordinary maintenance with operating machines requires prior authorisation and control by the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.
• The Provincial Service in charge of protected areas may promote the uprooting of juveniles to maintain or restore meadow areas invaded by spontaneous vegetation, subject to an agreement with the owners.
• Interventions necessary for conservation, bio-ecological rebalancing, cultural enjoyment and scientific research, carried out by or on behalf of the Provincial Service responsible for protected areas.

• Modify or alter in any way the elements that make up the Provincial Nature Reserve.
• Deposit waste or materials of any kind, carry out excavations, changes of cultivation, land reclamation or draining works
• Cultivate quarries and peat bogs.
• All activities liable to trigger or provoke processes of disturbance or modification of existing ecological values.
• Introducing, removing or damaging plants, or parts thereof, of any species, as well as collecting or damaging mushrooms or other undergrowth products.
• Hunting, taking in, removing or disturbing any animal species, as well as letting dogs or other domestic animals roam, including for herding.
• Crossing the area occupied by the peat bog.
• Erecting constructions or artefacts of any type or material, even if temporary.
• Draining or injecting water or sewage slurry, with the exception of authorised extraction for drinking purposes.
• Crossing the area with new electric and telephone lines and any other overhead or underground conduct.
• Camping, lighting fires, spreading lights, sounds and disturbing noises outside the restricted area of the homes.
• Carrying out competitive or folkloristic activities in general; other organised events must be authorised in advance by the provincial service responsible for protected areas.
• Building any type of fence that may cause damage or impede the passage of wildlife.
• Remove or damage the Provincial Nature Reserve identification and boundary signs.