Torsmyran nature reserve

Torsmyran nature reserve is located right on the E4, between Nordmaling's community and Öreälven. There is a parking space where you open a gate in the fence and go out on a 130m long bridge straight out on the bog. At the far end are tables and benches.

A mosaic of different bog and wetland types

By Jens Backman

Torsmyran is one of the Norrland coast's largest and most varied bogs and the largest bog area in Västerbotten County's coastal region that has escaped serious damage from ditching, road construction and the like. Here are fine examples of different types of bogs, marshes and mixed bogs and one of the country's northernmost examples of raised bog formation. Torsmyran became Nordmaling's sixth nature reserve in the spring of 2006.

A bustling wildlife

There is plenty of open water in the form of ponds, ponds, streams and streams in Torsmyran. This has contributed to the bog having a rich bird life. Here, among other things, heather-pipe, red-legged, green-legged, snipe, great crested grebe, little loon, whooper swan, meadow-pipe lark, yellow-eared gull and fl your owl species breed

The bog also has a rich and interesting insect fauna. 16 different earth runners, 27 different water beetles, 5 species of water skin beetles and 8 dragonflies and fl dragonflies have been found. Among the 24 divers, the red-listed Laccophilus biguttatus can be mentioned in particular.

Vegetation

Approximately half of the bog area consists of bogs with, among other things, rust-white moss, ruby-white moss, heather, northern crow crisis, tuvull, rosling, cloudberries, dwarf cranberries, cranberries, round-haired hair, dwarf birch and blackberry. At the bottom of the southeast is a well-educated approximately five hectare bog. Mosseplanet has a sparse, short-grown pine forest and tufts with rust-white moss, pine-white moss and rice plants. In the submerged covers grow wool white moss, dense white moss, tufted reeds, rosette, tufted wool, large and round sieve hair.

Large areas consist of mixed bogs. In these there are small islands with moss vegetation that are spread over flat marshes with short-grown fixed mats. In many places, the fixed mats are replaced by failing soft mats with a more sparse field layer of cold grass, whitewash, gloomy cataracts, swamp cataracts and thorny cataracts. Locally, there are also "loose bottoms" with bare mud and occasional occurrences of cataracts, other half-grasses, large silage hairs and mud leaves.

On the outskirts of the reserve there are partly natural forest-like pine, spruce and coniferous mixed forests. In these grow a number of red-listed species and key species that are linked to natural forests. On pines fi n-ner you e.g. timber tick, blood tick, lemon tick, short-stemmed nail and large nail. On the spruce and bark of the spruces, e.g. stickleback, spruce tick, wool tick and violet gray tagella lichen. The interesting deciduous tree lichens found within the reserve include aspen jelly lichen, skin lichen, large twig nail, hull lichen, lung lichen and volcanic lichen.

Culture

In the western part of the reserve there is a 370 meter long catch pit system with 12 catch pits. The catch pits are strategically placed from bog edge to bog edge to close off the animals' migration path along the long, narrow headland as efficiently as possible. Today, the pits are about half a meter deep. When the pits were used, they were really deep, probably up to two meters, and may have had a device at the bottom of the pit with the task of locking the animals' hooves. Remains of a tar valley have also been found in the northeastern part of the area and mule grazing has occurred in older parts of parts of the forest land.