The historians say that people lived near Liškiava mountainside the third century BC. The huge stones overlooking the mound still witness the fact that it was planned ahead to erect a big castle there.
Actually 6 hundred inhabitants lived in prewar Liškiava. They kept a lot of livestock. That was the reason why no bushes sprouted up in the medows and pastures near the Nemunas river.The mound was seen by everybody from far.  Even the photographs taken in 1970 show that not only the Tower and Church mountains but the surrounding slopes of the Nemunas were not grassed .
The stones, thymes and helichrysums protected the slopes from erosion.
    Now aggressive ACER NEGUNDO sprogt everywhere excluding all herbs and blocking all the whole valley of the Nemunas. 
   For this reason the crashing landscape deforestation is necessary here.
On the 5th of december 2007 the staff of Dzūkija National Park , Druskininkai state forest enterprise and Kibyšiai forestry cut the sprouted bushes on the western slope of the mound.
   The Cut spontaneously grown pines near Liškiava-Druskininkai road, in some years would entirely hide the Nemunas and the slope of the mound where a short time ago Varėna manicipality helped to mount the new stone steps.

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