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Grønafjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Mountain plants with their beautiful, colourful flowers are common in high altitude areas in Norway. On the coast there are not so many of them. But, ...

Road and ferry between Byrknesøy and the mainland

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The road connection between the islands of Mjømna and Byrknesøy was officially opened on 13 September 1997. This was 40 years after the county governo...

Yddal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement ...

The road connection Værlandet-Bulandet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The archipelago of Værlandet - Bulandet consists of the area to the west of the Aldefjord. In 1981, Askvoll municipality forwarded a suggestion for a ...

Gullbotnen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Kvernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Slåttene

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Steinevik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...

The main road at Bremangerlandet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

A continuous road connection along the Bremangerlandet with ferry across to Måløy came in 1949. In 1977, the island of Frøya was connected to the high...

Road between Villevika in Flora and Midtgulen in Bremanger

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The farms on the mainland between Florø and Midtgulen had to wait for a long time before they got any road. Up until 1993, people in this area did not...

The road along the fjord between Naustdal and Eikefjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The public road between Naustdal-Vevring-Stavang-Eikefjord was completed section by section, and not without discussions. The road between Stavang and...

Lysekloster - The monks and nature

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister enc...

"Folkelånsvegen" (the people's loan road) - in the connection Askvoll-Førde

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Sel...

Late road connection to the outside world for the industrial town of Svelgen

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

It was the development of hydroelectric power that created the industrial growth in Svelgen from 1914. However, it took a long before any road constru...

The ferries on the Dalsfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Long before the heated debates about a bridge across the Dalsfjord, there was conflict about roads across and around the Dalsfjord. The roads had to w...

Villelia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The road Oppedal-Instefjord - an important part of the main road network

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The road construction between Instefjord and Oppedal was an important link in the so-called Coastal Highway between Stavanger, Bergen and Ålesund, the...

Yellow central road stripe between the two Sunnfjord cities

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In the summer of 2005, the Minister for Transport Torild Skogsholm opened the section Storebru-Knapstad on highway (RV) 5 between Førde and Florø. Thi...

Raudlia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Hopslia

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. R...

Hovaneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

PURPLE SAXIFRAGE - A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN PLANT - BY THE SEA ...

Ådlandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living...

Tveitavatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

It is difficult to imagine that a plant can grow at the same place for many thousands of years: Climate and local environment change. Different specie...

Digernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...

Storsøya Island

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

On Storsøya Island, English ivy grows nearly everywhere. It creeps along the ground and climbs all the way to the top of the tree trunks. Together wit...

Brandvikneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Per Harald Salvesen

ENGLISH YEW TREE FOREST AT BRANDVIKNESET ...

Road between Askvoll and Stongfjorden

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial villages in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, with the first aluminium plant in Scandinavia. The industrial...

Moster

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Løno

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe William Helland-Hansen Stein Byrkjeland

Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Lø...

Herdla - botany

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Golta - Pygmy willow

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Kalandsvika

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

Mannseidet - royal road and national cultural site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In former days travelling along the Norwegian coast took mostly place on sea. The old roads across the strips of land called Mannseidet and Dragseidet...

The "Trondhjemske" postal road in Gulen

Published: 26.09.2005

Author: Kristin Ese

The postal road in Gulen was formerly a part of the "Trondhjemske" postal road. In 1868, the road was no longer used as a postal road as the post was ...

The Royal Postal Road Bleiklindi - Styvi in the Nærøyfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The present main road between Oslo and Bergen follows more or less the same route as the old postal roads did. However, from Lærdal it no longer follo...

Hopsfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

On June 2nd, 1992, a big forest fire broke out in Sveio. The fire started southeast of Hopsfjellet. In a strong wind the flames spread quickly northwa...

The Inner Sogn Automobile Company 1916-1933 - Car services in the inner Sogn area

Billag / Bus company

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In 1916, the first company was established for car services in the municipalities of Sogndal, Hafslo, Luster and Jostedalen. At first the car services...

Gjuvsland

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Mary Losvik Nils Georg Brekke

For time immemorial, probably all the way back to the Middle Ages, animals from the Homestead at Gjuvsland have grazed on the sunny slopes on the sout...

Møkjedalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

NORWAY'S BIGGEST YEW TREE ...

Ølveshovda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Road from Florø

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Florø was founded in 1859, and was for close to 150 years the only city in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. What was highly unusual was the fact that t...

The Ancient Ash Tree

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Holmedalsberget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is...

Tveitabotn

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

VIRGIN FOREST IN THE BOTTOM OF TVEITA ...

Skogafjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

You have to travel to Scotland in order to find pine forests similar to those at Bømlo. The nearness to the sea has contributed in different ways to s...

Opposition to the Flåm Railway

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

When the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) in 1883 decided that the line for the Bergen Railway would go by way of Myrdal and Finse, the county counci...

Totland - Måløy - "a highly suitable road"

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Totland-Deknepollen was the last remaining distance before there was a continuous road between Måløy and Oppland across the mountain pass of Strynefje...

Floteskaret

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Tungesvikstranda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The Flåm Railway - built 1923-1940

Jarnbane / Railway

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

On 10 July 1908, the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - decided to build a railway line between Myrdal and Flåm. The work was not begun until 1923, a...

Langebudalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Reppadalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

The unusual bog landscape, with enormous peat deposits surrounded by steep mountainsides, makes Reppadalen in Arna an exciting, but little visited tou...

Kråmyrane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Fløyfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Vidden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe

Rambjøra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

In Sanddalen and Helldalsåsen the building of houses has increased dramatically. Where there eariery was grazing land, hundreds of families now live. ...

Jonstein

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

When high school student Arne Handegard collected plants for a herbarium in 1962, he didn’t know what kind of rarity he had pressed into his notebook....

Hereiane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedro...

Husedalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

OLD PINE FORESTHardangervidda has no more beautiful entryway for hikers than Husedalen. The river, its waterfalls and the expansive landscape is well ...

Andvikedalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

ELM- AND LIME TREE...

Herlandsnesjane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Herlandsnesjane, a four-kilometre long peninsula in Lake Storavatnet in the middle of Osterøy, is well known among botanists. Here lies an unusually l...

Otterstadstølen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Otterstadstølen lies in an idyllic grassy plain surrounded by rich forest, but also with high mountains close by. The mountainsides are steep and typi...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Moastølen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Joberget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Flowering lime is one of nature's blessings: The nectar gives clear honey. The flower is used as folk medicine. From the inner bark of the lime tree o...

Uranes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

One of the most magnificent deciduous forests in Hordaland grows along the border with Kvam. The rich growth comes from the phyllite and mica schist b...

Havås

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

WORLD FAMOUS BOTANIST Johan Havaas (1864–1956) lived at the little farm, Havås, far up on the slope on the southwest side of Lake Granvinsvatnet. He ...

Mundheim

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe

At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the sprin...

Vesoldo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem fr...

Leirvågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland

A marsh is a grassy meadow that is strongly influenced by salt from the sea. This type of nature is abundant in Denmark, among other places. The flatl...

Veivatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

From Kinsekvelven river and inward to Lake Veivatnet, we can wander through one of Hardangervidda's many fertile areas. A number of finicky plants gro...

Lote

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...

Kalvanes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede Bjørn Moe

On the 17th of January, 1993, the area between the towns of Odda and Eitrheimsneset were struck by a giant avalanche. One person was killed, and there...

Buardalen Valley

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje Bjørn Moe

Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mo...

The Kråkenesveg road in Vågsøy

Published: 11.07.2006

Author: Kristin Ese

Far to the west towards the ocean lies the hamlet of Kråkenes. A cart road to this place was built in the 1940s. The road could hardly be used in the ...

Vossagran

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Knut Nedkvitne Stein Byrkjeland

How did the spruce tree get to Voss? Did the seed or small spruce plants get help from people, for example, to make it here unscathed? Nobody knows....

Rekvesøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

The sediment that was deposited from the river Dyrvo has created the fan-shaped delta Rekvesøyane. The bit of land farthest out toward the water gets ...

Hamlagrø

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...

Fadnesskaret

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...

Ulvikapollen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

When the lush beach area innermost in Ulvikapollen was protected, the bird life was instrumental to the decision. The plant diversity is just as impre...

Osafjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

WARM-LOVING FLORA ...

The first ferry connection in western Sogn

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

One of the most important road and ferry connections today with a high volume of traffic is the connection between Lavik and Oppedal in western Sogn. ...

The Loftesnes bridge in Sogndal

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The Loftesnes bridge was the first bridge and road project in the county to be financed by toll money. The bridge was completed in 1958. In a 20-year ...

From riding path to road - between Kaupanger and Sogndal

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Kaupanger has always been an important historical place in Sogn. There is a reference to the place in the saga literature and it has been used as a ma...

The struggle for bridge across the Dalsfjord

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The Dalsfjord bridge has been the most hotly debated communications project in the county and has led to bitter political controversy. The start was t...

The Måløy Bridge - Norway's longest bridge in 1974

Published: 02.09.2005

Author: Kristin Ese

The Måløy Bridge was officially opened for traffic in the summer of 1974. The bridge project was realized by means of a strong local involvement and i...

Hiskjo

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjørn Moe

THE TRADING POST AT HISKHOLMEN...

Geitaknottane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Morten Hage Bjørn Moe

Many travellers between Mundheim and Gjermundshamn are captivated by the expansive view toward Øynefjord, Varaldsøy and Folgefonna. The barren pine fo...

Vollom

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

On Vollom, northwest of Seim, we find the only natural beech forest in Western Norway, which is also the most northerly of its type in the world. Beec...

Skuggestranda

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

PARADISE FOR MOSSES ...

The road through the Flåmsdalen valley - construction road and tourist road

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

In 1893, the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - decided that the Oslo-Bergen railway line would go by way of Voss and Myrdal. The construction of the...