Welcome to the website of the "Deer" hunting club

in Czarne

     The main goals we have set ourselves include the protection and management of game populations, as well as shaping the natural environment to improve the living conditions of animals. One of the important goals is to obtain the highest possible individual condition and trophy quality, as well as the appropriate number of populations of individual game species while maintaining the balance of the natural environment. Contemporary activity of hunters draws on scientific achievements, serves to preserve biodiversity and protect nature. Polish hunters participate in many important projects related to the protection of nature and the natural environment, including the restitution of endangered animal species such as: European bison, moose, beaver and peregrine falcon.

Hunting, apart from hunting economy, covers many issues, including, among others: shooting, cynology, falconry, trophy hunting, collecting and exhibitions. One of the very important elements of hunting is the promotion of culture, including the cultivation of traditions and customs, the promotion of ethics among hunters and the cult of hunters' patrons. Hunting in the life of modern hunters, apart from economic functions, plays an important role in meeting social needs in the field of hunting. Modern hunting refers to old Polish traditions, customs, language and old moral and ethical patterns.

In 2024, the Jeleń hunting club in Czarne will celebrate its seventieth anniversary. After almost seventy years, due to the few surviving documents, it is difficult to reconstruct the facts about the beginnings of the Circle. These documents, as well as oral records, allow us to state that in August 1954, the Presidium of the Poviat National Council in Człuchów registered the "Jeleń" Hunting Association in Czarne.

It should be assumed that the Circle adopted the name "Deer" due to the large resources of deer animals

in fisheries. Its origins come from the only operating then in the Człuchów district, the Circle No. 1 in Człuchów. Mieczysław Mackiewicz was the initiator of the creation of the "Jeleń" Circle in Czarne. In 1954, 11 hunters applied to the Circle. Not all surnames and first names of the founders of the circle have been established. The founders of the Circle include: Alfons Piotrowicz, Władysław Kwieciński, Alfons Łoś and Witold Czechowicz. All these have already gone to the land of eternal hunting. Klemens Pelowski became the first president, and Władysław Kwieciński became the gamekeeper.

In the fiftieth anniversary, the presidents of the Circle were successively: Klemens Pelowski, Władysław Kwieciński, Franciszek Bojar, Alfons Łoś, Stefan Sobczak, Zdzisław Gawryszuk, Jan Borysewicz and Henryk Hryniewicz.

this function Artur Zasuwa.

At that time, the amount of game harvested was quite modest. There were about 10 deer, 20 roe deer, 60 wild boars and small animals - especially hares. In the first years, field hunts for hares and catching hares for export were organized. Since the mid-1960s, the stock of large game: red deer, roe deer and wild boar has been steadily growing. In the 1970s, about 140 red deer, 200 roe deer and 140 wild boars were harvested annually. Due to environmental conditions, attempts to introduce the pheasant failed. Slowly, from year to year, the number of members of the Circle grew, which is now 66.

The Association conducts hunting management on three hunting grounds forming a cohesive whole (305, 312, 311). The total area of hunting districts is 17588ha, including forest area: 6247ha. The content of the circuits facilitates comprehensive forest management. The average forest area in the oblasts is 49%.

All oblasts are dominated by coniferous stands, to a lesser extent mixed or beech. There are a lot of single oaks.

Noteworthy is the sculpture of the area of hunting grounds. It is a typical post-glacial relief with significant terrain denivelations. There are numerous ravines and gorges as well as erratic boulders. The monuments of nature are erratic boulders in Olszanów, Biernatka and Grodzisk. The wildly flowing Szczyra River gives the landscape a special color of wildness. Its meanders covered with numerous bushes and reeds with adjacent ponds, swamps and sunburn areas, as well as numerous lakes located in hunting grounds, provide shelter to numerous animals.

Deer, roe deer, wild hares, raccoon dogs, foxes, badgers and beavers live in all districts. As for game birds, we meet ducks, pigeons and woodcocks. In spring and autumn flocks of grain geese sit in the fields. Occasionally you can see a flying white-tailed eagle and a black stork. The beaver and otter populations are increasing. Our club attaches great importance to educating young adepts of the art of hunting in the spirit of respect for ethics, tradition and culture as well as hunting customs.