Kamenný vrch nad Myslivnou, Nature reserve in Brno-Nový Lískovec and Kohoutovice, Czech Republic.
Kamenný vrch nad Myslivnou is a nature reserve on the southeastern slopes of the Kohoutovice Highlands in Brno's Nový Lískovec and Kohoutovice cadastral areas, at the Kameníky locality. Its bedrock is Brno Massif igneous rock — granite, granodiorite and diorite — under shallow, stony, fast-drying cambisol soils. Steppe grassland forms the core, with a forest edge along the northern part; the site overlaps the 13.7752 ha Kamenný vrch Site of Community Importance.
The area was established as a protected natural monument by Brno's National Committee in 1978 and later reclassified as a nature reserve by the Environment Ministry. This reclassification allowed for stronger protection of the sensitive ecosystems at this location.
The reserve's name comes from the rocky hill above the Myslivna gamekeeper's lodge, hence the 1992 designation Kamenný vrch nad Myslivnou. For about thirty years volunteers have gathered each year for the Velká kameňáková brigáda, a mowing brigade modelled on the hay meadows of the White Carpathians and Beskydy. The association Rezekvítek has long cared for the site.
The reserve is partly fenced and has an eight-panel educational trail aimed mainly at children; the steppe section lies between Travní street and the northern forest edge. The association Rezekvítek has long cared for the site, and a volunteer brigade, the Velká kameňáková brigáda, has taken place here every year for thirty years.
The reserve holds the world's largest population of Pulsatilla grandis, counted at 63,000 clumps in the Czech source (the Slovak article gives 55,000). The dry steppe also shelters the ground beetle Carabus hungaricus, and an eight-panel trail aimed at children runs through the site.
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