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enables the independence of individual functional and regional interests to be guaranteed. The aim of the organisation is to develop in a coherent way the nature park and the biosphere reserve of the same name and to look after and preserve its uniqueness and beauty as well as its pan-regional value as a recreation area. The headquarters of the park association has been based in
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founded on 20 July 1982. The members of the organisation are those districts and towns on whose territory the nature park is located as well as the
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covers an area of 177,100 hectares (684 sq mi) and some 76% of its area is under the woods of the
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Nature Park is divided into 3 regions based on their landscape:
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306:Elmstein
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489:Eroded
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