A few days ago I have bought a new MTB (mountain bicycle) and realised that the biggest and old forest in the borders of city of Lodz is just 10 minutes away from my place. Łagiewniki (Uagyevnykee) forest lies on the north border of Lodz but inside the city limits. The name appeared in 11th century and comes from the small production village that was providing the bigger settlement Zgierz (now it is satelite town of Lodz) with wooden and leather vessels for drinking. It is relatively big (1205 hectares) and it is remain of the old big primeval forest. The majority of the trees are oaks (over 42pc), pine-trees (27pc), birche (20%) but there is about 101 spieces of the trees. Most of them are abou 80 years old but in the middle of the forest you can find oaks in age over 200 years. There is about 500 spieces of insects (21 spieces of butterflies), 115 spieces of birds, 21 spieces of mamals and 15 spieces of fish. Lagiewniki forest has very big population of wild boars (about 150 or 200 depends on the number of them to be eliminated and killed every year). There are also about 6 large pools or small lakes a great place for walks and picnics.
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