Gäle Virgin Forest Nature Reserve
Nature reserve in Sweden
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Gäle Virgin Forest Nature Reserve (Swedish: Gäle naturskogs naturreservat) is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden.
| Gäle Virgin Forest Nature Reserve | |
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  Location within Jämtland County  Gäle Virgin Forest Nature Reserve (Sweden) | |
| Location | Sweden |
| Nearest city | Östersund |
| Coordinates | 62°55′42″N 14°42′28″E |
| Area | 13 ha (32 acres)[1] |
| Established | 2005[1] |
The nature reserve protects an area of surviving old-growth forest dominated by spruce in a landscape otherwise heavily forested. Trees up to 300 years old grow in the reserve. The unspoilt forest with its coarse woody debris provides a habitat for several red listed or unusual species such as Schismatomma pericleum, Chaenothecopsis viridialba, Haploporus odorus and Anomoporia bombycina.[1]
