The Limburg Landscape

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The landscape of Limburg, like any other landscape, displays a variety of features. Some of these reflect man’s ongoing endeavour to adapt the landscape to its needs. For instance, there has been a clear impact of human behaviour in the province from the moment that Neolithic farmers arrived in these parts around 4000 BC. Other features represent a natural evolution of the landscape on a scale of (tens of) millions to several thousands of years to very recent. Distinct features are the geology, the variety in landforms and different climatic conditions. This combination of geological, geomorphological and climatic factors has endowed the province with its own characteristic wealth of especially botanical variety but also explains the findings of for instance mosasaurs. Topics covered in this skills training are the geological history of Limburg, characteristics and management of the riverine landscape of the Maas, the practice of nature conservation and the ecology of different types of South Limburg forests.