Sammanfattning:The County Administrative Board of Östergötland is a participant together with five other Baltic states (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany) in an international Baltic Sea project named BIRD. This project, which is partly financed by the EU, focuses on countryside development matters concerning wetlands, nature reserves and cultural landscapes. Because of the vast areas that are embanked at Lake Roxen the County Administrative Board has considered it important to get knowledge about the total extent of embankments around Lake Roxen as well as the condition in which they are today and how the owners of embanked land look upon the future of the embankments and their utilisation.