LIČKA DRUŠTVA ZA POLJEPŠANJE MJESTA – POČECI ZAŠTITE LIČKIH KULTURNIH I PRIRODNIH OSOBITOSTI
LIKA’S ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE LANDSCAPING OF THE PLACES – THE BEGINNINGS OF THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL AND NATURAL FEATURES

Summary/Abstract: Although this paper as the central element has the existing associations that have influenced primarily on the esthetical view of the places and their nearby environment, it is important to emphasize the circumstances that have influenced the associations’ activities, and to indicate the area that these associations have included. It is precisely the environment of Lika region the one that is for centuries under the climatic and vegetation alterations, but also under the changes of human adjustments to the natural resources. The area of Lika region has always been in synergy with the people who have been connected with the environment not just due to economic needs, but due to respect they have felt for the environment as the equal co-partner of the life on Earth. Systematic interventions regarding the environment existed in Lika region even during the Military Border. Especially significant was the venture of the Austrian general and soldier Ernst Gideon von Laudon who in 1746 systematically planted the grove at the area of sandy Krbava Field. At the area of Lika and Podgorje several associations for embellishment and protection of the places and their surroundings have been established. These associations had economic interests because careful protection of the places has been a model that has served for the attraction of the foreigners interested in those places, whereas the city environment has been an indicator of the progress and civilized attitude towards the natural and cultural environment. The emphasis of this scientific paper is precisely the introduction of these associations, their members and the steps they have taken regarding the aesthetic protection and the ecological consciousness. Therefore, this scientific paper has a goal to present and argue the real effects of the functioning of the associations for the embellishment of the places and their environment, but it also tends to examine were these only the formal initiatives of a small part of the city elite.

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