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Journal Entry: Wed Nov 18, 2009, 3:18 PM

_{This weekend, I'll be on a trip taking photo's at the Veluwe.

The Veluwe is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km² in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
The Veluwe features many different landscapes including woodland, heath, some small lakes and Europe's largest sand drifts.
The Veluwe is the largest moraine complex in the Netherlands, stretching 60 km from north to south, and reaching heights of up to 110 meters.
The Veluwe was formed by the Saalian glacial during the Pleistocene epoch, some 200,000 years ago.
Glaciers some 200 meters thick pushed the sand deposits in the Rhine and Maas Delta sideways, creating the hills which now form most of the Veluwe.
Because the hills are made of sand, rainwater disappears rapidly, and then it flows at a depth of tens of meters to the edges where it reaches the surface again.

Originally the Veluwe was surrounded by a string of swamps, heavily populated with game such as deer and wild boars because these areas offered rich vegetation to feed on.
Since the 1990s many plans are underway, or have already been implemented, to restore these wetlands by blocking the drainage systems built by farmers during the last 150 years.
This results in very dry heathland changing into wetland within a span of just a few hundred meters.
The Wisselse Veen near the village of Epe, on the North West Veluwe, offers a good example of this.

(Source: Wikipedia: [link] )

Expect to see a few (or a lot) photo's of that trip when I get back}

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