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Puszcza Biała

Omega933 · CC BY-SA 3.0

88% trees around it and 136 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km88%
  • wild within 10 km92%
  • species recorded136
  • Altitude133 m

The forest around

88% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 86%Grassland 11%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 64%Grassland 24%Wetland 0%Water 2%Cropland 6%Built-up 2%Trees 52%Grassland 38%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%88%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km86%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km52%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees86%
  • Grassland11%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland3%
  • 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

136 species recorded.

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

Stiff clubmoss
Stiff clubmossLycopodium annotinum5 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Bromus commutatus
Bromus commutatusBromus commutatus2 recordsRosser1954 Roger Griffith · Public domain
Smooth meadow-grass
Smooth meadow-grassPoa pratensis2 recordsRasbak 08:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea2 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cinnamom rose
Cinnamom roseRosa majalis2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Wild cucumber
Wild cucumberEchinocystis lobata2 recordsAung · Public domain
Mouse-ear-hawkweedPilosella officinarum2 records
Rough Meadow-grassPoa trivialis2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

78out of 100

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

  • 88%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 92%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 136Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 133 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-7°44 mm
  2. Feb0°-6°37 mm
  3. Mar6°-2°38 mm
  4. Apr14°3°40 mm
  5. May20°9°74 mm
  6. Jun23°13°68 mm
  7. Jul25°15°76 mm
  8. Aug25°14°67 mm
  9. Sep20°9°52 mm
  10. Oct12°4°50 mm
  11. Nov6°0°44 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°45 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Puszcza Biała.

Forest in Poland

Puszcza Biała is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 88% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 92% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

136 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 0 fungi, 128 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Stiff clubmoss, Bromus commutatus and Smooth meadow-grass.

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

Forest White
Omega933 · 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.

Puszcza Biała 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 kmSzlak Powstania Styczniowego Puszczy Białej
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 12places to stay within 10 kmOśrodek szkoleniowo-wypoczynkowy Rzemieślnik, Dom Weselny i Hotel Wiktoria, SAS and 9 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Brok Natura 2000 Puszcza Biała 30.07.2012 p
Przykuta · CC BY-SA 3.0
Puszcza Biała jesienią 01
Piotrkmc · CC BY 4.0
Puszcza Biała las
Agathos de · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  • 88%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 136Species

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  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

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  • 96%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 240Species

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  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 217Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7262052) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,592 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

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

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