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Lakes of the Torrazzuolo of Nonantola (MO)

The area of Riequilibrio Ecologico The " Torrazzuolo " (following A.R.E.) is founded by the Town administration of Nonantola (MO). The A.R.E. insists in maximum part on terrestrial of ownership of the Partecipanza Agraria of Nonantola (around him 80%); the remainder departs it is of town and cliquish ownership. It places near the northeastern border of the town territory of Nonantola, to the confluence of the Turbid Channel with the Pit Bosca and the Pit Sorga, in place denominated the Torrazzuolo.

The A.R.E. is constituted by a central body coincident in good part with the places Valle di Sotto and Valle di Sopra (fig. 1), from which radiate different linear elements: channels, hedges and planted with trees rows. Particularly we have:

• reforestation of around 8,5 hectares realized in the first months of 1990 on terrestrial of town ownership immediately situated to north of the Pit Bosca and turned in the precedents years as culture of poplars (sector A);
• reforestation of around 34 hectares realized in the first months of 1992 in the Valle di Sotto on terrestrial turned before in agricultural cultivations (sector B);
• damp zone of around 7 hectares situated in the oriental part of the Valle di Sotto, surrounded by a mixed hedge installed in 1984 (sector C);
• damp zone of around 14 hectares situated in the oriental part of the Valle di Sopra, turned up to 1992 to culture of poplars (sector D);
• other areas reforested of limited extension for a total of 5 hectares;
• 9600 linear mt of hedges and planted with trees rows.

Both the damp zones are been rented to the Provincial Administration in Modena, Service Faunistico, Hunting and Fishing. The naturalistic management is effected by the LIPU section in Modena. The reforestation effected in the area they have happened almost exclusively using essences typical of the padana lowland.
(Extracted from:
A.Imperiale,E.Selmi,A.Zoboli - La fauna dell'Area di Riequilibrio Ecologico "Il Torrazzuolo" di Nonantola (MO): Anfibi,Rettili,Uccelli e Mammiferi. Atti Soc. Nat. Mat. Modena 129 (1998) 75-96 )

The check-list here brought reports the observations effected during 24 visits among the years 1980 and 1994.
The number brought in the column Frequency points out the number of times in here that species e has been observed: for example I have observed the purple heron only in 2 occasions on 24.

Attention: for the translation of these texts from Italian I have used the help of an automatic translation program; the signaling through e-mail of possible errors (and them the corrections) they will be welcome.