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37-729: The Kellerwald lies in northern Hesse in the district Schwalm-Eder . Abutting the northeast, the Kellerwald's heights slope down into the Eder Valley, and towards the east and southeast they fall off into the Schwalm Valley. In the southwest, the range goes by way of the Wohra Valley into the Burgwald range and in the west, beyond the river Eder, lies the Breite Struth (a range of hills). Within

74-453: A " quartz that is turned opaque red with hematite inclusions". [1] The Kellerwald is named after the mountain ridge called the Keller, mentioned above. Where the name Keller came from is interpreted two different ways: Beginning about 1600, the woodlands were in heavy use in charcoal making for the many ironworks and copperworks that needed charcoal to fuel their furnaces, thus leading to

111-404: A few rare dwarf beeches . In cool and damp stream dales grows the rare, highly poisonous common monkshood . In light beech and oak forests with limy subsoil is found the martagon lily . In a few places are found great stands of the rare wild daffodil . In the Kellerwald, parts of which are also a Special Protection Area (for birds), a number of bird species still or once again breed, among them

148-485: A separate permit is required for each individual animal taken (tags). In some parts of Africa , wild animals hunted for their meat are called bushmeat ; see that article for more detailed information on how this operates within the economy (for personal consumption and for money) and the law (including overexploitation and illegal imports). Animals hunted for bushmeat include, but are not limited to: Some of these animals are endangered or otherwise protected, and thus it

185-507: Is a title, roughly equivalent to "Baron") [2] . Since that time, they have spread far beyond the confines of the Kellerwald. Foxes , badgers , pine martens , beech martens , polecats and stoats are also to be found in the Kellerwald. Of the 19 kinds of bat that live in Hesse, 14 have been noted in the Kellerwald. Another characteristic animal of the Kellerwald is the fire salamander , found here in its thousands. Further typical amphibians are

222-401: Is cooked in the same ways as farmed meat. Because some game meat is leaner than store-bought beef, overcooking is a common mishap which can be avoided if properly prepared. It is sometimes grilled or cooked longer or by slow cooking or moist-heat methods to make it more tender, since some game tends to be tougher than farm-raised meat. Other methods of tenderizing include marinating as in

259-662: Is crossed or touched by many watercourses, among them: On the Kellerwald's northern edge lie these still, open bodies of water: Both are man-made. Kellerwald is also the name of a much smaller wood in Forchheim in Upper Franconia . Schwalm-Eder-Kreis Schwalm-Eder-Kreis is a Kreis ( district ) in the north of Hesse , Germany . Neighbouring districts are Kassel , Werra-Meißner , Hersfeld-Rotenburg , Vogelsberg , Marburg-Biedenkopf , and Waldeck-Frankenberg . In 1821 districts were created in Hesse. They included

296-751: Is illegal to hunt them. In Africa, animals hunted for their pelts or ivory are sometimes referred to as big game . Also see the legal definition of game in Eswatini . South Africa is a famous destination for game hunting, with its large biodiversity and therefore impressive variety of game species. Many creatures have returned to former areas from which they were once taken as a result of being killed for big-game hunting . Commonly hunted species include: South Africa also has 62 species of gamebirds, including guineafowl , francolin , partridge , quail , sandgrouse , duck , geese , snipe , bustard and korhaan . Some of these species are no longer hunted, and of

333-508: Is part of the European network " Natura 2000 " ( Special Area of Conservation and Special Protection Area ), as well as, in parts, Bannwald , a German designation for wooded wildernesses allowed to grow naturally without any human intervention. Further Special Areas of Conservation are, among others, the oak forests on the steep slopes at the Edersee, the aforesaid Keller in the southern part of

370-490: Is precisely 194 m above sea level . On the other hand, the Kellerwald's highest point is on the Wüstegarten (675 m above sea level). Among the Kellerwald's and the two herein mentioned parks' best known – albeit not necessarily highest – mountains are (including the "Six Hundreders", and sorted by height): This German article includes a much more exhaustive list of the Kellerwald's notable peaks. The Kellerwald

407-439: Is quickly field-dressed by removing the viscera in the field, while very large animals like moose may be partially butchered in the field because of the difficulty of removing them intact from their habitat. Commercial processors often handle deer taken during deer seasons, sometimes even at supermarket meat counters. Otherwise the hunter handles butchering. The carcass is kept cool to minimize spoilage. Traditionally, game meat

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444-602: Is the red deer . In the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park are found fallow deer and European mouflon . Besides these, roe deer and wild boar are also common. The wildcat is rare. In the area that is now the national park, the first raccoons , whose natural habitat is in North America , were released into the wild in Germany on 12 April 1934 by Wilhelm Sittich Freiherr von Berlepsch (1881–1948; "Freiherr"

481-447: Is typically taken from a wild animal that has been shot with a gun or bow . Hunters must be absolutely certain of their target before shooting and should make every effort to get the animal down as quickly and painlessly as possible. Once obtained, game meat must be processed to avoid spoiling. The method of processing varies by game species and size. Small game and fowl may simply be carried home to be butchered . Large game such as deer

518-738: The Deer Act 1991 ). Deer hunted in the UK are: Other animals which are hunted in the UK include: Capercaillie are not currently hunted in the UK because of a recent decline in numbers and conservation projects towards their recovery. The ban is generally considered voluntary on private lands, and few birds live away from RSPB or Forestry Commission land allegedly. In Iceland game includes: Game in Norway , Sweden , Denmark and Finland includes: In Poland , legal game includes: Big game Small game Game meat

555-568: The black stork , the common raven , six kinds of woodpecker (among them the rare middle spotted woodpecker and the grey-headed woodpecker ), the black and the red kite (which here reach their highest population density anywhere in Hesse), the peregrine falcon , the Tengmalm's owl , the honey buzzard , the Eurasian eagle owl and the great grey shrike . One of the Kellerwald's characteristic animals

592-536: The palmate newt and the midwife toad . In the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, almost a thousand kinds of beetle from more than 80 families have been noted. Through the Kellerwald run many hiking trails, among them the Kellerwaldsteig , a roughly 167 km-long loop joining mountains and places in the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park and the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park together. Round

629-527: The 44 indigenous gamebirds that can potentially be utilised in South Africa, only three, namely the yellow-throated sandgrouse , Delegorgue's pigeon and the African pygmy goose warrant special protection. Of the remaining 41 species, 24 have shown an increase in numbers and distribution range in the last 25 years or so. The status of 14 species appears unchanged, with insufficient information being available for

666-572: The Edersee has run since 2005 the 68 km-long Urwaldsteig Edersee ("Virgin Forest Trail") through the oak forests on the lake's north shore and through the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park south of the lake. The Kellerwald's lowest point is found at the edge of the Eder Valley on the outskirts of Affoldern , not far from, and below the water level of the Affolderner See (reservoir); the point

703-881: The Kellerwald are the Ederhöhen (the "Eder Heights", a mountainous region in the range's north), whose area roughly coincides with the aforesaid national park, the Wildunger Bergland ("Wildungen Highlands"), which makes up the middle part of the Kellerwald, and the Keller (also known as the Hoher Keller or the Hoher Kellerwald , a mountain ridge in the south of the Kellerwald) made up of, from southwest to northeast, Jeust (585 m above sea level), Wüstegarten (675 m), Hunsrück (636 m) and Sauklippe (584 m). Geologically

740-561: The Kellerwald, made up mainly of palaeozoic rocks, belongs to the Rhenish Slate Mountains. Scenically, however, it is also grouped as a separate entity with the Hessian Basin, because the rivers Eder and Itter form a natural boundary. Important rock types include the so-called Kellerwald quartzite , radiolarian rock , shale , greywacke and diabase . A regional peculiarity is the dark red Kellerwald agate , an Eisenkiesel ,

777-578: The Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park was brought by the Federal Office for Nature Conservation ( Bundesamt für Naturschutz ) into the programme called the "Great Nature Conservation Project of Pan-Governmentally Representative Importance" ( Naturschutzgroßprojekt von gesamtstaatlich repräsentativer Bedeutung ). Since the 19th century, the northern part of the Kellerwald (since 2004, the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park), as hunting woods for

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814-744: The Knüll, the Stölzinger Gebirge, and the Kellerwald with the 675 metre-high Wüstegarten mountain, the highest peak in the district. In the east, the geology of the Knüllgebirge is dominated by the clastic Triassic strata of the Middle Buntsandstein , as is the western region around the Gilserberg. Soils of weathered Buntsandstein are generally acidic to slightly basic and nutrient-poor. For

851-513: The Princes of Waldeck, has been surrounded by gates. To be found here are some particularly pristine beech forests, although they have been damaged somewhat by the high concentration of game . More than 30% of the trees are older than 140 years. The main human activity here was hunting rather than forestry . The main tree here is the beech, which is predominant here in acidic-soil (shale, greywacke, quartzite) woodrush-beech forest. Worthy of mention are

888-406: The dish Hasenpfeffer , cooking in a game pie or as a stew such as burgoo . The Norwegian Food Safety Authority considers that children, pregnant women, fertile-aged women, and people with high blood pressure should not consume game shot with lead -based ammunition more than once a month. Children who often eat such game might develop a slightly lower IQ, as lead influences the development of

925-610: The district its name. After they merge close to Felsberg, the Eder enters the Fulda to the north at Edermunde . The southeast of the district includes a portion of the Knüllgebirge range of low mountains; the highest elevation is 634 metres (2,080 ft). In the north are the hills of the Homberger Hochland . The centre of the district is largely rural, and is surrounded by the mountains of

962-622: The districts of Fritzlar , Homberg, Melsungen, and Ziegenhain. In 1932 the districts of Fritzlar and Homberg were merged; in 1974 the three districts of Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen, and Ziegenhain were merged into the Schwalm-Eder district. The district is twinned with the Finnish city of Kajaani , the British district of Sedgemoor , and the Polish district of Piła . The Schwalm and Eder rivers give

999-471: The many special places on the steep slopes at the Edersee. Here are found the last remains of virgin forest and gnarled sessile oak forests with St. Bernard's lilies , and the highest incidence in Hesse of Cheddar pinks . In the higher levels grow mountain arnica and maiden pinks , and in the valley areas western marsh orchids and early purple orchids . Near the Jägersburg near Odershausen are found

1036-517: The most part the land is forested. In the district of Fritzlar there are outcrops of younger Upper Buntsandstein , known as the Röt Formation , because of its red colour. These strata consist of clay beds and various kinds of calcareous beds, interbedded with clayey marls . The coat of arms shows the lion of Hesse (azure a lion rampant crowned, barry of six argent and gules, armed or). Below are wavy lines (three bars wavy argent) that symbolise

1073-425: The name Köhlerwald ("charcoal maker forest"), commonly pronounced Köllerwald (with an [ œ ] sound, rather than [ø] ; this [œ] is not very different from the [ɛ] sound of Kellerwald ). The other interpretation holds that the name was originally Kahler Wald ("bare forest" or "bald forest"), a name suggested by heavy clearing in some parts of the woods at one time. Either process could have yielded

1110-527: The name Kellerwald used today through sound shifts. Wald simply means "forest" in German . The Kellerwald is subject to a special conservation status. Almost its whole unspoilt natural area belongs to the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park. The northern part, with an area of 57.24 km has been designated since 1 January 2004 as the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park . Furthermore, a great area

1147-431: The natural diet of the animal, which usually results in a lower fat content compared to domestic farm-raised animals. In some countries, game is classified, including legal classifications with respect to licenses required, as either "small game" or "large game". A single small game licence may cover all small game species and be subject to yearly bag limits . Large game are often subject to individual licensing where

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1184-543: The nature park and the Urff, a linear Special Area of Conservation from the source to the river's mouth into the Schwalm. In small areas, there are also nature reserves and protected scenic areas. The conservation efforts have yielded, perhaps most importantly, one of Central Europe 's last contiguous broadleaf forests of international grade. The predominant woodland type is described as acidic-soil woodrush - beech forest. In 2005,

1221-575: The remaining three species. The gamebirds of South Africa where the population status in 2005 was secure or growing are listed below: In Australia , game includes: Game in New Zealand includes: In the United States and Canada , white-tailed deer are the most commonly hunted big game. Other game species include: In the PRC there is a special cuisine category called ye wei , which includes animals in

1258-763: The three main rivers in the district, the Schwalm , the Eder , and the Fulda . [REDACTED] Media related to Schwalm-Eder-Kreis at Wikimedia Commons Game (food) Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat ), for recreation (" sporting "), or for trophies . The species of animals hunted as game varies in different parts of the world and by different local jurisdictions, though most are terrestrial mammals and birds . Fish caught non- commercially ( recreational fishing ) are also referred to as game fish . The range of animal species hunted by humans varies in different parts of

1295-575: The wild. In the UK game is defined in law by the Game Act 1831 ( 1 & 2 Will. 4 . c. 32). It is illegal to shoot game on Sundays or at night. Other non-game birds that are hunted for food in the UK are specified under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 . UK law defines game as including: Deer are not included in the definition, but similar controls provided to those in the Game Act apply to deer (from

1332-441: The world. This is influenced by climate , faunal diversity, popular taste and locally accepted views about what can or cannot be legitimately hunted. Sometimes a distinction is also made between varieties and breeds of a particular animal, such as wild turkey and domestic turkey . The flesh of the animal, when butchered for consumption, is often described as having a "gamey" flavour. This difference in taste can be attributed to

1369-418: Was hung until "high" or "gamey", that is, approaching a state of decomposition . However, this adds to the risk of contamination. Small game can be processed essentially intact, after gutting and skinning or defeathering (by species). Small animals are ready for cooking, although they may be disjointed first. Large game must be processed by techniques commonly practiced by commercial butchers. Generally game

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