Natural monuments

According to the Act on the Protection of Nature "natural monuments are individual natural animate and inanimate, or their recollection of special environmental, scientific, cultural, historical or landscape value and of distinctive individual features, distinguishing them among other creatures, impressive size trees, shrubs, native or foreign, springs, waterfalls, exsurgents, rocks, ravines, boulders and caves ". Protection in form of nature monuments on Polish territory was introduced during interwar in the last century.

Within the area of Sława Śląska Forest District there are 27 natural monuments 4 of which are boulders (elements of inanimate nature - one of them is an erratic, "Mietek"), the remaining 23 are trees: 11 oaks, 5 beeches, 3 ashes, 2 small-leaved limes, 2 Scots pines, 2 common junipers and 1 western redcedar and horsechestnut.