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On Sunday 24 July, a fire broke out in the České Švýcarsko/Bohemian Switzerland National Park (northern Bohemia) which due to its extent will go down in the history of not only this National Park. Mainly dry Norway spruce (Picea abies) monocultures having been damaged by a European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) outbreak burned down, but also valuable ecosystems and a part of the village of Mezná were affected. The fire was preceded by dry and warm weather with record temperatures of up to 36 °C. At the time of writing this contribution, more than a thousand firefighters had been extinguishing seats of fire for 16 days, which is too early for an evaluation of various aspects. It has however already been obvious that the event will become a turning point in the attitude to forests in the Czech Republic. 

Thirty-year anniversary of the current Act on Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection is enhanced by an even older anniversary. In 2022, a century has passed since submitting the very first proposal for nature conservation act by the Member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia Jaroslav V. Stejskal. Therefore, let us briefly remember efforts by nature conservationists and naturalists to obtain legislative nature conservation and landscape protection in former Czechoslovakia, then the Czech Republic.