Góra Stołowa Nature Reserve named after Ryszard Malik

The Góra Stołowa Nature Reserve named after Ryszard Malik is a forest reserve on the Olkusz Upland, in Klucze municipality in Olkusz County. It was established on 25 May 2021 and covers the Stołowa Góra complex, including Ostra Góra and Pod Wieżą.

What the reserve protects

The aim is to preserve a forest ecosystem with natural communities and the sites of protected plants and fungi. The reserve covers 96.09 ha, and its buffer zone 109.03 ha. Here grow fertile Sudetic beech forest, sycamore forest with hart's-tongue fern and orchid Carpathian beech forest. The relief is varied by rock outcrops that alternate with beech forests.

The patron

The reserve bears the name of Ryszard Malik (1974-2015), a forester from the Olkusz Forest District, who was committed to nature conservation.

Surroundings

A few hundred metres to the south-east lies the Pazurek Nature Reserve. The whole belongs to the area of the Trail of the Eagles' Nests Landscape Park, and nearby stands Rabsztyn Castle.

Practical information

• Access from the side of Jaroszowiec; forest paths run around and inside the area.
• The prohibitions applicable to reserves apply in the reserve; check the rules and the current course of the paths with the Olkusz Forest District.