Floating willows at the Kaitzbach, Dresden

The project included the landscape conservation planning and ecological construction supervision for the loss of valuable, stream-flowing copses in the course of the construction of a rainwater retention dam as a flood protection measure for the state capital Dresden.

Special feature and challenge was that very old and therefore also very valuable pollarded willows, occupied by the European protected beetle species "Hermit" in coordination with the biologist should be preserved as far as possible.
We therefore had the statically intact trees dug out together with their roots.
They were transported (so that the beetle larvae do not fall out) suspended in an upright position and replanted about 100 m downstream of the retention dam close to the creek.
The root balls were braced and the stand area was secured extensively against unauthorized entry.

The trees are now well grown again and the beetles are probably also well.