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Stelmužė Oak

Algimantas Navickas, Arnoldas Abramavičius, Gintautas Antanavičius, Arvydas Veikšra, Jurgi · CC BY-SA 4.0

71% trees around it and 10 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km71%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded10
  • Altitude163 m

The forest around

71% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 58%Grassland 28%Wetland 2%Water 6%Cropland 5%Trees 72%Grassland 17%Wetland 2%Water 7%Cropland 2%Trees 58%Grassland 27%Wetland 1%Water 1%Cropland 13%Trees 58%Grassland 24%Wetland 1%Water 8%Cropland 9%Built-up 0%71%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km58%
  • 1–3 km72%
  • 3–6 km58%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees72%
  • Grassland17%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water7%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

10 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Whiskered camouflage lichen;   Whiskered brown-shield lichen
Whiskered camouflage lichen;   Whiskered brown-shield lichenMelanelixia subargentifera4 recordsEd Uebel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cartilage lichen
Cartilage lichenRamalina fraxinea3 recordsRosser1954 Roger Griffith · Public domain
Cartilage lichen
Cartilage lichenRamalina pollinaria2 recordsDendrofil · CC BY-SA 3.0
Anaptychia ciliaris
Anaptychia ciliarisAnaptychia ciliaris2 recordsjacinta lluch valero from madrid * barcelona...., (España-Spain) · CC BY-SA 2.0
Frosted lichen
Frosted lichenPhysconia enteroxantha2 recordsJason Hollinger · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 71%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 10Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 163 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-4°-10°50 mm
  2. Feb-3°-9°43 mm
  3. Mar2°-5°45 mm
  4. Apr11°0°46 mm
  5. May17°7°71 mm
  6. Jun20°11°85 mm
  7. Jul23°13°96 mm
  8. Aug22°12°89 mm
  9. Sep16°8°60 mm
  10. Oct9°2°71 mm
  11. Nov3°-1°62 mm
  12. Dec-2°-6°52 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Stelmužė Oak.

Natural monument in Lithuania

Stelmužė Oak is a notable tree in Lithuania.

Seen from space, 71% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

10 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 5 fungi, 5 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from May to June.

2017 Stelmuže oak LT
Algimantas Navickas, Arnoldas Abramavičius, Gintautas Antanavičius, Arvydas Veikšra, Jurgi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Stelmužė Oak seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 km1836 (Leišmalīte)
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmStelmužės ąžuolas
  • 1picnic sites within 4 kmPrie Lygumų akmens
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmZarasų žemės ūkio mokykla-Bendrabutis, N. Šedienės sodyba, Sventes muiža
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Stelmužė Oak.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Egļukalns221 m · 8.3 kmBērzkalns9.1 km
Lakeyas20 lakes within 15 km
Kampiniškių Lake0.4 km² · 6.9 kmLielais Ilgas ezers0.8 km² · 6.9 kmLake Svente6.1 km² · 8.5 kmMeduma ezers2.3 km² · 8.9 kmLaukesas1.5 km² · 10 kmČičirys3.9 km² · 10 kmZarasas2.7 km² · 11 kmAvilys10 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
SartaiBortle 2 · 25 kmLuodisBortle 2 · 27 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Stelmuzes a1
CD · CC BY 3.0
Stelmuzes azuolas2015
Anaiptol · CC0
Stelmužė 32295, Lithuania - panoramio (2)
VietovesLt · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Stelmužė Oak

Lithuania

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 10Species

Rūdininkai Forest

Lithuania · 178 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 127Species

See the guide

National Botanic Garden of Latvia

Latvia · 163 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 503Species

See the guide

Naliboki forest

Belarus · 217 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 56Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2972120) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species64 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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