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Anlier forest

Grentidez · CC BY-SA 3.0

66% trees around it and 499 species recorded.

75Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km66%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded499
  • Altitude435 m

The forest around

66% 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 55%Grassland 42%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 67%Grassland 30%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 88%Grassland 10%Water 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 53%Grassland 38%Cropland 6%Built-up 3%66%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km55%
  • 1–3 km67%
  • 3–6 km88%
  • 6–10 km53%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees67%
  • Grassland30%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up1%

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

499 species recorded.

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

Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies225 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Slender rush
Slender rushJuncus tenuis60 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens56 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata53 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Sorrel
Common SorrelRumex acetosa51 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris51 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra50 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia50 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense50 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sweet vernal grass
Sweet vernal grassAnthoxanthum odoratum49 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon49 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Common bent
Common bentAgrostis capillaris48 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

75out of 100

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

  • 66%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 499Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 435 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan2°-2°84 mm
  2. Feb4°-2°73 mm
  3. Mar8°0°69 mm
  4. Apr13°3°52 mm
  5. May17°7°76 mm
  6. Jun20°10°76 mm
  7. Jul23°12°76 mm
  8. Aug22°12°85 mm
  9. Sep18°8°60 mm
  10. Oct13°5°72 mm
  11. Nov7°2°79 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°93 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Anlier forest.

Forest in Belgium

Anlier forest is a forest in Belgium, 435 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 66% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

499 species have been recorded around it: 428 plants, 14 fungi, 55 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Norway Spruce, Slender rush and Creeping buttercup.

The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Bois communal de Chiny
Grentidez · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Anlier forest 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

  • 30marked trails within 5 kmHeinstert - aux portes de la Forêt d'Anlier, GRP 151 Tour du Luxembourg belge - Parcours principal, European long distance path E3 - part Belgium and 27 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmChêne des Quatre Fils Aymon, Le Gros Chêne de la forêt d'Anlier
  • 13picnic sites within 4 km
  • 27shelters and huts within 6 kmComment fait-on du charbon de bois ? and 26 more
  • 7viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmHabay Tourisme ASBL
  • 6car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmBeau Rivage, L'Eau Vive, Camping Alaska and 2 more
  • 48places to stay within 10 kmGîtes de la clairière, Grange de Victor, Le Verger du Pierroy and 45 more
  • 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 Anlier forest.

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
Montagne de Stockem367 m · 14 kmNapoléonsgaard554 m · 19 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Vallée de la Haute-Sûre113 species · 19 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.

Anlier 050611 (2)
Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Anlier forest

Belgium

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 499Species

Grünewald

Luxembourg · 41 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,522Species

See the guide

Arboretum Kirchberg

Luxembourg · 41 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 722Species

See the guide

Hertogenwald

Belgium · 90 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 593Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078757) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,332 open records within 5 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, Birdyas

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

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