To ensure that the agri-environmental programmes work efficiently in Koszalin county, a high level of involvement and effort from administrators, scientists, environmental organisations, agricultural advisory centres and, most importantly, beneficiaries/farmers is required. There is no doubt that the National Agri- Environmental Programme constitutes an essential change in the system of environmental protection in our country, because it assumes that the farmer can successfully actively protect the environment on his own land. From hereon environmental protection is no longer the exclusive domain of office workers and foresters. It is important that active environmental protection exceeds the borders of protected areas – national parks and reserves. Managers of these areas as well farmers will need money to carry out active environmental protection. Such means are provided by the National Agri-Environmental Programme. ...
Field studies of springs were conducted in the years 1997−2008. They aimed to present the phytocoenotic and floristic diversity of springs of the Roz-tocze escarpment zone on the background of hydrogeochemistry of effluences, and to evaluate the degree of their naturality or antropogenization in relation to springs’ location (objects in forest vs. non-forest areas, particularly in rural ones), as well as to answer the question whether spring protection as nature monuments is effective. The study springs are accompanied by a specific set of species of vascular plants and bryophytes, representing different groups of krenophytes. Small spring niches are usually overgrown with communities of Cardamine amara-Chrysosplenium alternifolium and Cardamino-Beruletum erecti dominated by few species belonging to obligatory and/or facultative kreno-phytes. Along spring water effluences, patches of Glycerietum plicatae commu-nity are common. The presence of krenophytes indicates a high quality of the en-vironment of the Roztocze escarpment zone. In the large niches of vauclusian springs there also occur phytocoenoses dominated by synusia of tall macroforbs, e.g. Epilobium hirsutum, Mentha longifolia, Scrophularia umbrosa, Urtica dioica, Eupatorium cannabinum, Cirsium oleraceum. In rural areas, under the influence of the antropopressure (trodding, grazing, etc.) there occur nitrophi-lous carpet communities consisting of Poa annua, Lolium perenne, Plantago ...
