From Quarry to Lake, From Hole to Opportunity. The Story of a Landscape from Which All Europe Learns

For generations, the Most region supplied the country. Coal and wealth left, while an excavated landscape acquired the label of the country's worst region.

Dr Jan Burda of the Brown Coal Research Institute will trace the region from ponds through coal mining to a lake. He will discuss why a lake, rather than a forest, formed in the mine, changing water levels and rare birds in the quarries.

The lecture will be followed by a moderated discussion led by Pavel Novák.

Jan Burda helped design Lake Most and works on the future of the ČSA and Vršany quarries.