Ormtjernkampen-Nationalpark

The Ormtjernkampen National Park (Norwegian Ormtjernkampen nasjonalpark ) until his emergence in the Langsua National Park on 11 March 2011 with its 8.5 km ² Norway's smallest national park. He belonged to the municipality in the province of Oppland Gausdal. The park was established on 14 June 1968 in order to preserve nature with urwaldartigem character and the original Fjellandschaft of Ostland. The park bordered on the Ormtjernmyra nature reserve.

Geography, landscape and geology

The area of the former Ormtjernkampen National Park is located south / southwest of the Dokkvatnet and northern / north-west of Ormtjørnet. The highest mountain in the park is the former 1128 moh. high Ormtjernkampen.

The national park was located mostly in the mountains between the Dokkvatnet and the Ormtjernkampen. The local forest is one of the most original of Norway, he was hardly enter for centuries.

Flora and Fauna

While in the lower elevations of the former Parkes coniferous forest grows (especially spruce ) grow in the higher elevations predominantly Krummästige birches, which eventually disappear and the flora of grasses, flowers, mosses and lichens dominate.

The mixture of live and dead trees in the forests, the alpine climate with cool summers and cold winters, and the high average annual rainfall with the resulting high humidity, offers a wide variety of plants, mosses, lichens and fungi optimal growth conditions. Probably the rarest plant in the park is the bearded bellflower, of which only a few occurrences are known in Northern Europe.

Tourism and Management

On the Ormtjernkampen there is a hiking trail. How else most common in the Norwegian national parks, there was no Ormtjernkampen mountain cabin or other fortified sleeping possibility.

Since 2005, has been thinking about an extension of the national park. Various plans called for a total of up to 1365 km ² for the park possible. In this scenario, would be of the communities Etnedal 24 km ² (2 %), Nordre Land 47 km ² ( 3%), Nord-Fron 104 km ² (7%), Sør -Fron 133 km ² (10%), North Aurdal 137 km ² ( 10%), Øystre Slidre 380 km ² ( 28%) and 540 km ² Gausdal (40 %) came to kilometers. The percentage indicates how much percent would represent the respective surface of the 1365 km ². This plan was not fully implemented. The Ormtjernkampen National Park was instead part of the new Langsua National Park, which was opened with an area of 11 March 2011 of 537.1 km ².

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