Dal van het Ruiten Aa
Where straightforwardness is allowed to meander
Under the guise of land consolidation and water management, everything that was crooked in Westerwolde was straightened out. Even the meandering little river, the Ruiten Aa, was subsumed into straight, wide ditches. Until the end of the last century. In the Dal van de Ruiten Aa nature reserve, the stream is allowed to meander once more, and animals and plants have plenty of space.