Łowy książąt mazowieckich a spław na Omulwi Handel, polityka i ochrona środowiska w początkach XVI wieku
The hunts of Masovian dukes and floating on the Omulw Trade, politics and environment protection in early 16th century

Summary/Abstract: At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries the Teutonic Order administrators of southern Prussia (procurator of Nidzica) tried to use the Omulew as the water path for flo- ating Prussian timber to the Narew and then by the Vistula to Gdańsk. Those attempts met opposition from Masovian dukes (Konrad III, his widow Anna and his sons Janusz III and Stanisław) because the river attracted the game which they hunted. The sources related to this matter show consistent striving of the Masovian Piasts for protection of large forest areas in the north of their domains, the Szkwańska Forest or Zagajnica, against economic exploitation because hunting in that area gave them “special entertainment and considerable income”.

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