Please, let Conference Secretariat know which excursions you choose by e-mail or in the registration desk. Please note that those who marked on the registration form that they will arrange their trip from Stockholm to Tallinn/Tartu haven't got the ferry ticket included in Conference fee.
SWEDEN
Excursion 1. Nature conservation and cultural heritage in the rural landscape
Excursion 2. From Viking Age to Recent times - how to interpret a piece of rural landscape in Central Sweden
Excursion 3. Nature conservation and planning in the urban landscape
Post-conference excursions
ESTONIA
Excursion to North-East Estonia
Excursion to Endla National Park and Vooremaa
Excursion to South-East Estonia
Post-conference excursion
Ferry
Transportation Tartu-Tallinn
SWEDEN
Stockholm in-conference excursion
Excursions start at 8 AM. All participants must take their luggage with them to the Conference location. There will be an option to choose between three excursions, one full day and two half-day trips to be combined with the parallel morning sessions C2. Shaping the future landscapes and E. URBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY (Programme). Luggage for half-day excursion participants will be held in separate rooms in U-House. After sessions must every participant take his/her luggage to his/her excursion buss. There will be also guides and signs. All excursions will end at the ferry landing in time for the departure to Estonia. This is also to facilitate a convenient and interesting transport of participants and their luggage to the ferry in time for departure. Transportation of posters will be arranged by Organising Committee.
We hope that as many as possible will join excursions to the Stockholm area. Picnic lunch is included in the price.
Excursion 1. Nature conservation and cultural heritage in the rurallandscape. Full day excursion (8 AM - 4 PM)
Leaders: Bo Eknert and Johan Berg
Location: Vallentuna municipality c. 20 km to the north of Stockholm: Aroute with a few major stops at Angarn - Vada valley and Kippinge farm.
Special: This excursion aims at giving you an overview of a Swedishrural landscape with a long history. It combines aspects of natureconservation and cultural heritage. It also shows the interesting chainof land cover history from open lakes - to land claims for agriculturalproduction - to abandonment - and finally to measures of restoration.
Keywords: wet meadows, bird sanctuary, grassland restoration, continuitysince the Viking age.
Excursion 2. From Viking Age to Recent times - how to interpret a piece ofrural landscape in Central Sweden
Half day excursion (11 AM - 4 PM)
Leader: Margareta Ihse and Ulf Sporrong
Location: Vallentuna municipality c. 20 km to the north of Stockholm.Special attention will be given to two small village areas within theparishes of Markim and Orkesta
Special: Land use and landscape evolution from Viking Age to present time
Keywords: landscape and settlement, land use - continuity anddiscontinuity, landscape and social structure, cultural heritage. Natureconservation issues in cultural landscapes
Excursion 3. Nature conservation and planning in the urban landscape
Leaders: Katarina Löfvenhaft, Henrik Waldenström and Helle Skånes
Length: Half day excursion (11 AM - 4 PM)
Location/route: Highlights of Stockholm National Urban Park (consistingof three royal parks: Ulriksdal, Haga and Djurgården). The landscape isvaried and we will meet sceneries, such as grasslands with old oak trees,lakes, pine forest and parks in the English style with historicalbuildings. The flora and fauna is rich. We will also pass throughbuilt-up areas within the park, such as Gärdet, and discuss some of theland-use conflicts of today.
Special: This excursion includes light walking within the park and a bustour (with stops) through the national urban park to see the magnificentmixture of natural, cultural and recreational values that the parkoffers. Our main guide is Henrik Waldenström, who was active in thenon-governmental organisation” Ekoparksförbundet” thathighlighted the need to protect the area: Henrik is now a professionalguide of the Park.
Keywords: biodiversity issues related to landscape structure, planning,and use. Parallels will be drawn between the urban and the rurallandscapes. Key aspects; biotope mapping, landscape change, isolation,fragmentation and alteration.
Swedish post conference excursions
One post-conference excursion is offered. It will start on July 8th andend on July 11th. The participants will be picked up at the Stockholmferry landing upon arrival with the Tallinn boat. The excursion will endat the Arlanda airport (comment to Anu: when do we have to deliver them?If you know the time, pleas write it here and also notify me!).
Title: Characteristic Swedish Landscapes
Leaders: Margareta Ihse and Anders Yrgård
Accommodation: three nights in 1-2 bed rooms. The final night will bespent in Uppsala not far from Arlanda airport
Special: During a three days excursion we will go from the east coast andvisit landscapes round three big lakes; Lake Mälaren, L Hjälmaren and LVättern. In this densely populated area you will meet threecharacteristic landscape types; agricultural landscapes, semi-open mosaiclandscapes and forest landscapes. During the excursion we will give yougeographical, ecological and cultural aspects on the landscape. Naturerecourses, land use and environmental problems will be discussed.
Excursion route and highlights
Sun July, 8th
The excursion departs directly after arrival in the ferry terminal.
Gripsholm. Lunch. Visit at the historical castle of Gripsholm. LakeMälaren connecting historical towns. Regional geomorphology - fault linesdividing the landscape.
Strängnäs and Tosterön. Fissure - and fault landscape. Map survey.
Kjulaås. The esker as an important landscape element. Post-glacial upliftforming the landscape. Landscape of the vikings.
Kungsör. Dinner and overnight in the Guest House of Kungsörstorp, on topof an esker viewing the Kungsör Bay of Lake Mälaren.
Mon July, 9th
Kungsör. Diversity in agricultural and pasture landscapes. Restoring ofpasture landscapes.
Stengärdet (Kungsör). Typus of the” esker”. Nature values andexploiting of natural recourses. Pits in gravel and bedrock. Sustainablenatural resource management.
Outdoor lunch
Lake Kvismaren. The biggest human impact on natural environment of Swedenconcerning lakes. Agricultural land as a result of anthropogenic drainingof lakes and wet lands a century ago. Nature conservation, biodiversity,bird- and snake reservation.
Örebro. Dinner and overnight in the city of Örebro.
Tues July, 10th (a long day)
Kvarntorp. The biggest dump of Sweden (elevation 100 meters). Landscapeof open-pit oil shale mining and dumping of overbuden and waste.Restoring of a severely exploited area. Splendid view from top of thedump.
Lunch in the small town of Askersund at Lake Vättern.
Wiew over Lake Vättern. Nature conservation on islands.
Igelbäcken. Historical blast-furnace. Exploiting of coniferous forest forchar-coal and iron melting..
Tiveden. National park in a dramatic coniferous forest, former achar-coal producing area. Human impact and nature conservation. Ecologyin forestry.
Dinner and overnight in the city of Uppsala, 70 km north of Stockholm.Historical buildings.
Wed 11th of July
Uppsala. Morning visit at the residence and garden of Carl von Linné.
Before 12 o’clock arrival at Arlanda Airport between Uppsala andStockholm.
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ESTONIA
In-conference excursions
In conference excursion day 5th July. All excursions start at 8 AM and will end at Sangaste manor South-Estonia for farewell party.
Excursion to North-East Estonia
This excursion explores environmental sites of North-East Estonia - Virumaa. The landscapes of this region are shaped by oil shale industry. Oil shale-based energy production gives more than 95% of electric output in Estonia. A dark side of oil shale industry is its environmental impact, including impact to landscapes.
The excursion will take us to see an oil-shale open pit, places of reforestation of mining areas, surroundings of Kohtla-Järve oil-shale processing plant (the most polluted area in Estonia) and heaps of solid waste. This region is also known for picturesque natural landscapes and cultural sites, which create feeling and emotion in contrast to the industrial areas. These sites include Kuremäe Nunnery, which has played an important part in the latest history of Russian Orthodox Church and the Kurtna landscape reserve (40 lakes in the kame field). On the way back to Sangaste manor we shall visit dunes at Lake Peipsi and Mustvee town.
The length of the journey is about 290 km and will take the whole day.
Guides:
Dr. Ivar Puura (ipuura@ut.ee), Institute of Geology;
Dr. Kalev Sepp (kalev@envinst.ee), Institute of Environmental Protection
Excursion to Endla National Park and Vooremaa
Vooremaa (the drumlin field), the unique and classical type of landscapenot only in Estonia but also in Europe with drumlins ranging fromnorth-west to south-east and long narrow lakes between them will beseen. In the Endla nature reserve, wetland of international importance,typical bog landscape will be introduced in the Männikjärve Bog, usingthe viewing tower in the middle of the bog pool system and uniquesolution springs of the slope of the Pandivere Uplands will be visited.
Guides: Kai Kimmel (kkimmel@hot.ee); Katrin Möllits
Excursion to South-East Estonia
Trip to explore the picturesque and diverse South-Estonian landscapes. Theexcursion will take us to see the open-air museum of Karilatsi and theintriguing sandstone denudations on the banks of the Ahja River inTaevaskoja, as well as the hilly forest landscapes of the area.
We willthe pass through the towns of Põlva and Võru, then visit the highest pointof Estonia and all Baltic states Suur Munamägi, 318 m above sea level, have lunch and continue our way on the Haanja upland. Our trip will takeus to the Karula National Park to see a typically Southern Estonianlandscape of small farms, rounded moraine hills, and small lakes (stop at Pühajärve).
Then we'll continue our way to Otepää and to the finaldestination, the Sangaste manor to have the conference farewell party.
The length of the journey is about 230 km and will take the whole day.
Guides: Helen Alumäe (helengeo@ut.ee), Institute of Geography; Loit Reintam
Post-conference excursion
Post-conference excursion in Estonia goes to West-Estonian islands Saaremaaand Hiiumaa.
Excursion starts from Tartu in the morning of July 7. Wit some stops on theway and via Pärnu you will get to Saaremaa by the evening. Overnight atKuressaare.
July 8 - sightseeing on Saaremaa, by the evening you 'll get to Hiiumaa,overnights at Käina.
July 9 - sightseeing on Hiiumaa, drive to Tallinn by the evening, overnightsin Tallinn.
July 10 - city tour of Tallinn. The excursion is over by ca 14.00
FERRY
Information about ferries between Tallinn - Stockholm and Kapellskär - Paldiski: http://www.tallink.ee/eng/index_eng.htm
TRANSPORTATION TARTU - TALLINN
Busses leave in every half an hour, trip takes 2.5 hours, ticket costs 100 Estonian crowns.
