​During the first half of the 20th century, wooded meadows were the ‘visiting cards’ of the West-Estonian landscape. The precondition of the appearance and survival of these park-like associations is regular mowing, cutting down shrubbery and other labour-consuming maintenance work. Due to the intensified agricultural activity during the second half of the 20th century, the wooded meadows suffered a decline. Lack of mowing has allowed most of the meadows to overgrow and lose the variety of vegetation and their park-like appearance. There are only a few typically West-Estonian dry oak meadows left that abound in species. The majority of them can be found in nature reserves in Laelatu, Nedrema and Matsalu. Wooded meadows of moist mineral land are mostly situated in the Kasari river basin.