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Dzikie ssaki Wielkiego księstwa Litewskiego w pracach Jeana-Emmanuela Giliberta

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Samojlik T., Daszkiewicz P.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2015

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vol. 60

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issue 1

151–163

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Among the many topics of lively scientific work that Jean Emmanuel Gilibert (1741-1814) conducted in Grodno and Vilnius, an important place is occupied by his observations of wild mammals. Royal patronage and care from Antoni Tyzenhauz, Treasurer of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the governor of Grodno, allowed Gilibert to keep and observe wild fauna captured by royal services in royal forests, including Białowieża Primeval Forest. Such was an origin of a female bison kept by Gilibert in Grodno. Its description, published in Indagatores naturae in Lithuania (Vilnius 1781) for decades became the primary source of information about the behaviour, food preferences and the anatomy of European bison. European science has just begun to take interest in European bison, therefore Gilibert’s account entered scientific circulation by way of French natural history encyclopaedias (mainly Georges Buffon’s Histoire naturelle) and works by Georges Cuvier or Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Apart from the description of European bison, Gilibert left an entire series of observations of wild mammals inhabiting the forests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. His accounts of moose were important in building a knowledge base for this species. In the first half of the 18th century, moose was known mainly from fantastic descriptions in Renaissance works and from prescriptions devoted to using moose hoof as the epilepsy treatment. Gilibert’s observations helped to overthrow such superstitions. Similarly, Gilibert’s first-hand information verified the widespread legends concerning brown bear (e.g. the belief that white bears, belonging to other species than polar bears, occur in Lithuania) . List of species kept and thoroughly watched by the scholar is much longer and includes lynx, wolf (and hybrids of wolves and dogs), beaver, badger, fox, hedgehog, and even white mouse. Also his comments on the species of mammals then absent in Lithuania but known either from farming or from the fur trade (wolverine, bobak marmot or steppe polecat). Also in these cases, Gilibert’s descriptions were often the first reliable information that entered the circulation in European science. His accounts were not free of errors and mistakes - but they resulted mainly from the pioneering role of his work. Some of his breeding experiments can arouse the reader’s sincere smile today, such as an attempt to feed a beaver with fish or serve cooked beans to a lynx In the margins of his mammal observations, Gilibert described also the place of their occurrence, extensive forests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Read from the contemporary perspective, his thoughts are surprisingly relevant. In his praise of “primeval nature, free from human actions and not disturbed by accident or by the impatience of human desires” he sounds very similar to today’s eulogists of the primeval forest of Białowieża.

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Alleged burial mounds from the late Roman Period at leśnictwo Sacharewo site 3, Białowieża Primeval Forest

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Krasnodębski D., Olczak H., Mizerka J., Niedziółka K.

Światowit

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2018

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vol. 57

89-99

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The article presents results of excavations carried out at an alleged barrow cemetery located in the western part of the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland. The site, discovered in 1996 and verified in 2016, consists of 10 mounds. In 2017, the first excavations were carried out when the mound no. 3, with a diameter of c. 9 m and a relative height of c. 0.7 m, located on the northern edge of the site, was chosen for research. In the mound 39 potsherds were found. The scarcity of ceramic material and the high degree of its fragmentation make the stylistic analysis difficult. The technological and stylistic features of the discussed pottery are typical for ceramics from a wide timespan, ranging from the Pre-Roman Period to the Late Roman Period. Their precise dating and cultural affiliation are difficult to determine due not only to the small size of the collection but also to the lack of well-dated comparative materials from the Białowieża Forest and its surroundings. A 14C analysis of charcoal obtained from the embankment of the mound yielded an approximation which fits between the second half of the 3rd century and the early 6th century. The cul- tural situation of north-eastern Poland in the Pre-Roman and Roman periods remains insufficiently recognised. Excavations carried out over the past dozen years have revealed many settlements related to the local culture group of the Hatched Pottery Culture and the Wielbark Culture, with some influences flowing from the postZarubintsy circle. In the course of the excavations, no human bones were found which would unambiguously confirm the sepulchral function of the mound. The Sacharewo mound is a part of a wider category of objects known from throughout the Białowieża Forest in which no bones were discovered but only fragments of clay vessels or charcoal layers.

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Wpływ funduszu leśnego na rozwój sylwanoturystyki w Puszczy Białowieskiej

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Jalinik M., Roman M.

Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

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2022

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vol. 66

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issue 3

38-49

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The Forest Fund was established in order to enable forest management to be carried out by forest districts, where the costs are higher than the revenues generated. Its task is to compensate for financial shortages in deficit forest districts. The State Forests operate on the basis of financial independence and cover the costs from their own revenues. The aim of the study is to analyze the use of funds obtained from the Forest Fund in the Białowieża, Browsk and Hajnówka Forest Districts for the development of sylvan tourism in the Białowieża Forest (PB). The research used the method of a diagnostic survey with the use of a research questionnaire and direct interview, specialist literature and financial and economic reports for the years 2020-2021, „places of power”, forest nature education and other services related to tourist traffic in the area of the studied forest districts.

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Fundusz Leśny został utworzony w celu umożliwienia prowadzenia gospodarki leśnej przez nadleśnictwa, w których koszty są wyższe od osiąganych przychodów. Jego zadaniem jest wyrównywanie niedoborów finansowych w nadleśnictwach deficytowych. Lasy Państwowe prowadzą działalność na zasadzie samodzielności finansowej i pokrywają koszty z własnych przychodów. Celem artykułu jest analiza wykorzystania środków pozyskanych z Funduszu Leśnego w nadleśnictwach Białowieża, Browsk i Hajnówka na rozwój sylwanoturystyki w Puszczy Białowieskiej (PB). W badaniach użyto metody sondażu diagnostycznego z wykorzystaniem ankiety badawczej i wywiadu bezpośredniego, literatury specjalistycznej oraz sprawozdań finansowo-gospodarczych za lata 2020-2021. Badane nadleśnictwa przeznaczyły najwięcej środków na budowę ścieżek pieszych i rowerowych, wykonanie tablic promujących PB, remont dróg dojazdowych do ,,miejsc mocy”, edukację przyrodniczo-leśną oraz inne usługi związane z ruchem turystycznym na obszarze badanych nadleśnictw.

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Dzikie ssaki Wielkiego księstwa Litewskiego w pracach Jeana-Emmanuela Giliberta

Alleged burial mounds from the late Roman Period at leśnictwo Sacharewo site 3, Białowieża Primeval Forest

Wpływ funduszu leśnego na rozwój sylwanoturystyki w Puszczy Białowieskiej