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Yatir Forest

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12% trees around it and 219 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km85%
  • species recorded219
  • Altitude662 m

The forest around

12% 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 10%Shrubland 80%Grassland 3%Cropland 6%Built-up 0%Trees 12%Shrubland 56%Grassland 18%Water 0%Bare ground 3%Cropland 9%Built-up 0%Trees 2%Shrubland 16%Grassland 42%Bare ground 24%Cropland 12%Built-up 4%Trees 0%Shrubland 8%Grassland 39%Bare ground 38%Cropland 13%Built-up 2%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km10%
  • 1–3 km12%
  • 3–6 km2%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees12%
  • Shrubland56%
  • Grassland18%
  • Bare ground3%
  • Cropland9%
  • 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

219 species recorded.

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

Filago desertorum
Filago desertorumFilago desertorum7 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Carrichtera annua
Carrichtera annuaCarrichtera annua5 recordsFlora y Vegetación de Lanzarote · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erucaria hispanica
Erucaria hispanicaErucaria hispanica5 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Biscutella didyma
Biscutella didymaBiscutella didyma3 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Silverleaf nightshade
Silverleaf nightshadeSolanum elaeagnifolium2 recordsPLAKLE · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sarcopoterium spinosum
Sarcopoterium spinosumSarcopoterium spinosum2 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Galgal
GalgalGundelia tournefortii2 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY 3.0
Blessed milkthistle
Blessed milkthistleSilybum marianum2 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brachypodium hybridumBrachypodium hybridum10 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

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

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 85%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 219Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 662 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from February to March and in December.

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

  1. Jan16°5°59 mm
  2. Feb18°6°42 mm
  3. Mar21°8°27 mm
  4. Apr26°10°15 mm
  5. May30°14°4 mm
  6. Jun33°17°0 mm
  7. Jul35°19°1 mm
  8. Aug35°20°0 mm
  9. Sep33°18°2 mm
  10. Oct29°16°12 mm
  11. Nov23°11°31 mm
  12. Dec18°7°48 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Yatir Forest.

Forest in Israel

Yatir Forest is a forest in Israel, 662 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 85% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

219 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 30 fungi, 170 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Filago desertorum, Carrichtera annua and Erucaria hispanica.

The best time to walk is from February to March and in December.

Yatir Forest, Israel no.2
No machine-readable author provided. Okedem assumed (based on copyright claims). · 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.

Yatir 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

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmשביל ישראל, דרך החלמוניות, שביל המתקנים החקלאיים and 10 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmأربعة أثل
  • 28picnic sites within 4 km
  • 7viewpoints within 5 kmהר הקרמבו, הר עמשא, נ״ג 646 and 4 more
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmالجبر, بيت جمال عبد الهادي
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmديوان آل ابو عواد
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Yatir 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.

Peakyas51 mountains within 25 km
Har Amasa859 m · 3.8 kmMountain Hiran587 m · 7.7 kmZiph16 kmTell Beit Mirsim18 kmNabi Yaqin946 m · 20 kmKhashm al-Bāb21 kmGvaot Goral23 kmHar Ben Ya'ir25 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.

Yatir Reservoire in Yatir Forest, Israel
dr.avishai teicher User:Avi1111 · Public domain
122132 amphitheater in yatir forest PikiWiki Israel
זאב שטיין · CC BY 2.5
122133 amphitheater in yatir forest PikiWiki Israel
זאב שטיין · CC BY 2.5

Other forests nearby.

Yatir Forest

Israel

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 219Species

Forest of the Martyrs

Israel · 49 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 255Species

See the guide

Eshtaol Forest

Israel · 51 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 303Species

See the guide

Aminadav Forest

Israel · 46 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 327Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2118990) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species15,474 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

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

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