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Park Management in Germany similar, and, as you will see, an intriguing blend of both similarities and differences in the history and management of the two park systems exists. notes NATIONAL PARK BY “ACCIDENT” Germany’s first national park was established in the from Bavarian Forest in 1970 with the objective of attracting tourists to its remote location. However, the denomi- nation “national park” was merely a public relations strategy to promote a park that was intended purely as a recreational area. Consumptive uses such as timber ARK MANAGEMENT harvest and hunting were to continue. Thanks only to P a few people who were in charge of managing those in Germany 13,000 hectares (32,123 acres) was the Bavarian National Park transformed into a “real” national park A YOUNG AND GROWING PARK SYSTEM according to international standards. DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM THE The long absence of national parks in Germany can U.S. NATIONAL PARK MODEL be explained by a different conservation tradition from the United States. Early conservation efforts in Article and photos by Thomas Meyer Germany focused on species conservation and preser- vation of natural monuments, leading to the creation Located in central Europe, Germany is about the of the first nature reserves around 1900. Although size of Montana and has a long history of settlement some politicians were inspired by the national park and a high population density1. Thus, Germany’s land- idea, their plans failed, in part, because Germany scape is very fragmented and lacks uninhabited natu- lacked pristine areas and the concept of transition ral areas such as old-growth forests. In this setting, parks had not been established. Additionally, two Germany has only been able to establish national world wars intervened and diverted attention from the parks on lands altered by human use; areas suitable for conservation movement. the highest preservation status have been hard to find. A second national park was established in the Alps Nevertheless 14 national parks exist in my country in 1978, followed by three more parks in the today (figure 1). They are situated in less populated Waddensea coastal zone of the North Sea. Thereafter, regions and are generally small compared to parks in the potential for additional parks was scant until 1989 North America. However, their objective is similar to when the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East U.S. national parks: to allow natural succession, pro- Germany) became more open to the West. With the tect natural landscapes, and provide for recreation. fall of the Berlin Wall a group of East German conser- Because of our land use history, the present focus in vation leaders went on a study tour of the United German parks is on protecting succession so that nat- States to learn about protected areas and to incorpo- ural landscapes can develop once again. Our parks are rate new ideas in their latest conservation projects. in transition because the primary resource for which The former East Germany was less densely settled they were created is not (entirely) present. Almost 70 than its western counterpart and possessed many years ago Shenandoah National Park (Virginia) promising conservation sites. Although several areas became the first “transition park” because its mixed suitable for national park designation had been identi- hardwood and evergreen forest had been logged from fied in the years of the GDR, their protection as previous settlement, leaving only small patches of old- “national parks” was prohibited because the idea was growth forest (Engle 1998; Conservation Foundation American or capitalist! The conservationists met with 1985). As one can imagine, land uses such as agricul- NPS officials and visited Shenandoah National Park ture and forestry leave footprints on sometimes fragile where they were fascinated to view the results of ecosystems. Yet,as we all know, resource management America’s first transition park project. By the time of is a tool used by park administrations around the Germany’s reunification in 1990 five parks in the for- world to restore degraded ecosystems. In this respect mer GDR had been created, setting aside an addition- national parks in Germany and the United States are al 130,000 hectares (321,230 acres—figure 2, page 14). 1 Two-hundred thirty people per square kilometer or 89 people per square About 5% of the former East Germany was protected mile compared with 28 per square kilometer or 11 per square mile in the as nature reserve, biosphere reserve, or national United States. park—a great success for nature conservation! 12 SCIENCE DENMARK Baltic Sea are incompatible with national parks. Nevertheless, natural resource Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft 80,500 ha restoration operates with tools com- SCHLESWIG (198,916 acres) Jasmund North Sea HOLSTEIN 3,003 ha monly associated with forestry, Schleswig- (7,420 acres) Hamburgisches Holsteinisches Kiel including thinning and replanting. Wattenmeer Wattenmeer Niedersächsisches 11,700 ha 237,000 ha Accordingly, park zoning must dis- Wattenmeer (28,910 acres) (585,627 acres) MECKLENBURG- 236,330 ha HANSESTADT VORPOMMERN tinguish restoration zones from nat- (583,971 acres) HAMBURG➟ Müritz Schwerin Nationalpark ural areas. Currently only three out Hamburg 31,878 ha (78,771 acres) of 14 German parks qualify as nation- HANSESTADT Unteres ➟ Odertal al parks by IUCN definition. Bremen BREMEN 10,500 ha (25,946) POLAND NATURAL LANDSCAPES— NIEDER- BERLIN➟ SACHSEN Berlin STEP BY STEP Hannover Potsdam NETHERLANDS By far the largest challenge for man- Magdeburg BRANDENBURG GERMANYHochharz agers of recently created German 5,868 ha NORDHEIM Harz (14,500 acres) parks is addressing the many concerns 15,800 ha WESTFALEN (39,042 acres) SACHSEN ANHALT related to restoring ecological func- Hainich Düsseldorf 7,600 ha tion in cultivated areas. Centuries of (18,780 acres) Dresden forestry, mining, and hunting have left Erfurt SACHSEN THURINGEN¨ Sächsische behind a landscape with logging HESSEN Schweiz BELGIUM 9,300 ha roads, planted forests, introduced (22,980) RHEINLAND species, and unnaturally high deer PFALZ Wiesbaden populations. Restoration work is Mainz needed to remove structures like LUXEM- CZECH REPUBLIC BURG roads, buildings, and bridges and to SAARLAND Bayerischer de-channelize streams. Field trials in Saarbrücken BAYERN Wald 24,250 ha the Bavarian Forest have shown that FRANCE (59,922 acres) leaving roads intact does not mitigate Stuttgart the human impact. In this case the German National Parks wilderness ethic nurtured in the BADEN United States influenced park man- National Parks ¨ WURTTEMBERG München agers to undo human impacts where 0 50 100 km Berchtesgaden 20,776 ha (51,337 acres) feasible in order to have “wild” land- scapes inside park boundaries. The Source: Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) 1999, nach Angaben der Länder; Stand: 1.7.1999 SWITZERLAND retention of wild landscapes in Der Nationalpark Elbtalaue ist wegen des schwegenden Verfahrens nicht berücksichtigt AUSTRIA © Bundesamt für Naturschutz Germany is a philosophy that paral- Figure 1. German national parks by state. (Adapted by the NPS Natural Resource Information lels, for example, the watershed reha- Division from the original by LANIS-Bund—the German Federal Agency for Nature bilitation program in Redwood Conservation, 1999.) National Park (California), although removal of logging roads there is MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES NEEDED mainly to mitigate erosion. In 1973 the International Union for Conservation of In German national parks meadows and former fields Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) set up criteria can usually be left completely to natural succession. Only for classification of protected areas. The long experi- when cultural landforms are crucial to the survival of ence of U.S. parks heavily influenced those standards threatened species are they perpetuated by active man- for national parks around the world. In fact, German agement.This policy is comparable to the management of park managers aim to meet the IUCN standards since historic landscapes and cultural zones in U.S. parks, even they promote the national park idea better than if we do it for different reasons. Due to the small size of German law. The IUCN revised its standards in 1992, German national parks, we try to keep as little area as requiring national parks to fulfill management crite- possible under permanent vegetation management, ria, such as preservation of ecological integrity and preferably less than 5%. In contrast, nature reserves, exclusion of any use that might deteriorate it, in at which are smaller in size and permit more active manage- least 75% of an area. This explicit requirement was ment, are usually better suited for this goal. Furthermore, necessary because forestry, mass tourism, and mining historic landscapes receive a different protection status VOLUME 21 • NUMBER 1 • FALL / WINTER 2001 13 that allows active management to preserve the historic context. Managers of our young parks gen- erally have two options regarding any resource problem: do something about it or let nature regulate it. The decision to act or not applies to ani- mal populations, plantation forests, roads, and exotic species alike and depends on the philosophy of the park manager, funding, and the feasi- bility of the proposed remedy. Each park might take a different approach. Surely surprising to the American reader is that national parks in Germany are not within federal, but rather state, authority. Also, states have not officially agreed upon a park management policy. Nevertheless, Figure 2. (above) The white most park managers are eager to cliffs of Jasmund National Park attract more than 1.5 million comply with the already mentioned visitors per year. international standards and are advocating wilderness ideas similar Figure 3. (right) The natural to those in the United States. Thus, zone of Hochharz National we are developing an informal man- Park encompasses trees that were killed by a bark beetle agement policy that is adapted to our infestation (Ips typographus) situation in Germany but according 20 years ago following wind- to the spirit of John Muir and Aldo throw.
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