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Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Bømlahamn

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

From Dense Forest to Open Heathlands

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Mons Kvamme
The outer frame - the coast, the fjord and the mountains - are an inheritance from the country's geological history. But what, more than anything else...

Litlabø

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
The first finds of pyrite at Litlabø in Stord came to light in 1864. Forty years later sulphuric ore was mined from an open mine. From 1874 to 1880 it...

Hydroelectric power and industry at Svelgen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Bygd / Village
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Finn Borgen Førsund
In Bremanger the water resources formed the basis for the development of the industrial town of Svelgen. It took some time before any establishment ...

Alvøen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for...

Rekvemylna

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in...

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Randi Bårtvedt Axel Mykleby
Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic....

The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Danckert Monrad-Krohn
“THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE 17TH CENTURY” “Rats and Scots are of no use to man nor beast” was a popular saying in Bergen. It reflects the annoyance expres...

A True Gold Mine

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Kolle
THE GREAT HERRING ADVENTURE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY In that year the adventure started at Christmas time. The scene is a rural district on the fjord in...

Grønafjellet

Plant life
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, ...

Toftestallen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Herman G. Gade
The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic...

Power line

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
When the terminal at Kollsnes in Øygarden was going to be extended in the 1990s, environmental organisations, the local community and politicians dema...

Tysse

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland
As early as 1862 Svein L.Røsseland started a country store and lodging house at Ytre Tysse, and later on he became steamship agent and the first post ...

Knarrevik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland
Having passed well over the bridge across to Sotra you pass an industrial plant surrounded by a budding community; the mineral mill of A/S Norwegian T...

Yddal

Plant life
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 ...

Sævareid

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

Selsneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Slåttene

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland
Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Steinevik

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Lysekloster - Mushroom flora

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Olav Aas
The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from t...

Pøyla

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg

Lysekloster - The monks and nature

Plant life
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...

Villelia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Raudlia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Hopslia

Plant life
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...

Hystad - the black alder forest

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjelan
One of the biggest black alder forests in the country is in Hystadmarkjo. Along the well prepared trail through the forest you can experience an excep...

Hovaneset

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
PURPLE SAXIFRAGE - A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN PLANT - BY THE SEA ...

Ådlandsvatnet

Plant life
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

Plant life
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...

Storsøya Island

Plant life
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

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Per Harald Salvesen
ENGLISH YEW TREE FOREST AT BRANDVIKNESET ...

Moster

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Herdla - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Golta - Pygmy willow

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Stone quarry in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein J. Jansen
Hordaland has been through several "Stone Ages". The first was in the real Stone Age, with Bømlo as its centre. Hard stone as tools and weapons was th...

Mining in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein J. Jansen
Ølve has the oldest known mines in Hordaland. In 1642, privilege was granted by the king to build an iron works in Jernsmuget on the property of Lille...

Petroleum riches off the coast of Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
Already in the 1750s, Erik Pontioppidan fantasized about the possibility of petroleum in the North Sea, in "Forsøg til Norges naturlige Historie" (= S...

Hopsfjellet

Plant life
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...

Hummelfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
As early as 1906 the Matre and Haugsdal waterway was bought up by the businessman Blauuw from Bergen; the first “waterfall speculator” in the Matre ar...

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Gjuvsland

Plant life
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

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
NORWAY'S BIGGEST YEW TREE ...

Ølveshovda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Ænesdalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in t...

The Ancient Ash Tree

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Holmedalsberget

Plant life
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

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
VIRGIN FOREST IN THE BOTTOM OF TVEITA ...

Skogafjellet

Plant life
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...

Floteskaret

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Tungesvikstranda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Langebudalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Reppadalen

Plant life
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

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Måge

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visi...

Tyssedal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Bårtvedt
Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefal...

Fløyfjellet

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Rambjøra

Plant life
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. ...

Rådalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bernt-Håvard Øyen
"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be...

Jonstein

Plant life
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....

Husedalen

Plant life
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 ...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Andvikedalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
ELM- AND LIME TREE...

Herlandsnesjane

Plant life
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

Plant life
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...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

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

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Joberget

Plant life
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

Plant life
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

Plant life
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 ...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Lyngoksen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
The swamp layer at Lyngoksen is unusually thick, and the island therefore stands out from the rest of the islands along the coast. Even up on the ridg...

Veivatnet

Plant life
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...

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

Lote

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...

Odda - The industrial town

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Karsten Eitrheim Endre Skaar Nils Georg Brekke
In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. T...

Holo

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Mary Losvik
I Kvassdalen var det aktiv stølsdrift med mjølking av kyr og geitehald nokre år inn i vårt tusenår, og slik hadde det vore i meir enn to hundre år. Så...

Ulvund

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Mary Losvik
One of the oldest farms in Myrkdalen, Ulvund, is recognized as one of 14 areas in Hordaland having an especially valuable cultural landscape. The dirt...

Vossagran

Plant life
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....

Fadnesskaret

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...

Osafjorden

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
WARM-LOVING FLORA ...

Finse

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Wenche Eide
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete wi...

Sysendammen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Sysendalen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on...

Skiftesjøen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Hanne Svarstad Olav Aas
A microscopic mushroom from Hardangervidda has been like a “golden hen” for the Swiss company Novartis. Everywhere in the world, companies are looking...

Herlandsfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE POWER STATION AT HERLANDSFOSSEN...

The Tingastad saw mill

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Sagbruk / Sawmill
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Aage Engesæter
Like a green oasis the farm of Tingastad lies in between steep and polished rocks and hostile screes on the shore under the mountain of Storehogen and...

Vaksdal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Leif Grung
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Christopher Harris

Hisøya

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ove Gjerde
"I am going to prove to you that I am right". That is what the idealist and county doctor Christian Heitmann is supposed to have said in the early 189...

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

Ånuglo

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Harald Salvesen Stein Byrkjeland
Take a tour to Ånuglo on a warm summer's day. You can anchor up in Skipavågen and go exploring along the beach. Or, you can find giant holly trees and...

Flakka

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Dalland

Vernøya

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg
If you smell a foul smell out in nature, you mustn't immediately think that the reason is cloaca from houses or cabins. The reason can be an entirely ...

Bjørsvik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Byrkjeland
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...

Leiro

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Myking

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland
Between Lake Kvalheimsvatnet and Lake Mykingsvatnet, north of Grindheim, we find one of the biggest continuous lowland bogs in Hordaland. It is 500-60...

Skaråsmyri

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
PEAT EXTRACTION IN SKARÅSMYRI...

Vollom

Plant life
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

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
PARADISE FOR MOSSES ...