Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

The company WM Wiatrowiec Energie in recognition of favourable natural conditions and an agreement
with the authorities of the city and commune Sieniawa initiated activities for the location of wind farms in the
Sieniawa Protected Landscape Area (Sieniawski Obszar Chronionego Krajobrazu – SOChK). The planned
implementation of the complex of 51 wind turbines required examining compliance with the formal and legal
status of the area and the lack of cultural and ecological conflicts. The progressing, evaluative process of anthropogenic
and cultural transformations, which has been ongoing since the establishment of the SOChK, as
well as transformations associated with this ecosystem, have become an impulse for new research and a new
look at the problem of landscape protection. The updated value of landscape and spatial arrangement of the
city and commune Sieniawa conducted by the team of experts in the period from December 2009 to March
2011, led to the assessment of the new conditions and the related legitimacy of the possible verification of the
SOChK boundaries giving the opportunity to implement the subject undertaking. Simultaneously the expert
team pointed out that during the establishment of protected landscape areas it is necessary to use more thorough
and comprehensive studies than those that were the basis for the creation of SOChK.