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Pădurea Tătăruși Nature Reserve
Pădurea Tătăruși is a 49.9-hectare forest reserve in Tătăruși commune, on the border with Suceava County, created to protect a beech forest about 130 years old with large Crimean beech trees. Since 2024 a nature interpretation corner linked to a themed trail has operated at the edge of the reserve.
The reserve lies at the north-western tip of Iași County, in the south of Tătăruși commune, on the border with Suceava County, west of Conțești commune and near county road DJ208. The area belongs to the Suceava Plateau and lies roughly halfway between the Siret and Moldova rivers.
The forest was first protected by Iași County Council Decision no. 8/1994, and Law 5/2000 made it a protected natural area of national interest covering 49.9 hectares. In 2007 the area was included in the Natura 2000 site ROSCI0176 Pădurea Tătăruși, covering 55 hectares.
The reserve protects a beech forest (Fagus sylvatica) about 130 years old, with scattered Crimean beech (Fagus taurica), some of them very large trees. The Natura 2000 site was designated for the Asperulo-Fagetum beech forest habitat (9130), the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) and the bush-cricket Isophya stysi. On 1 November 2024 the Iași Forestry Directorate and the National Agency for Protected Natural Areas opened a nature interpretation corner at the edge of the reserve, intended for outdoor lessons and linked to the themed trail "Rezervația Forestieră, Pădurea Tătăruși". The commune is about 6 km from Probota Monastery.
Pădurea Tătăruși is a forest nature reserve, IUCN category IV, code 2.546, within the ROSCI0176 site. The forest comprises sub-compartments 48 A and 49 A of production unit II Tătăruși and is managed by the Pașcani forest district of the Iași Forestry Directorate.
Comuna Tătăruși, lângă DJ208, județul Iași