Møysalen national park and protected landscape - the process of making a management plan Christian Brun-Jenssen County Governor of Nordland.

Møysalen national park and protected landscape

-the process of making a management plan

Christian Brun-Jenssen

County Governor of Nordland

Background• Established 29th of August, 2003• Situated north in Nordland, in Lødingen, Hadsel and Sortland municipalities• Map• Møysalen national park

– 51,2 km2

– 50 % state owned

• Møysalen protected landscape– 67,3 km2

– Private and municipality owned land

• Untouched coastal alpine landscape, biodiversity with ecosystems, species and stocks, cultural herritage

• Hard bedrock,landscape formed in glacial periods, oseanic climate• Authority: County Governor of Nordland. Bord of Directors will be

established tomorrow.• Traditional use: reindeer heerding, hunting, fishing and recreational use

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Management plan - process• Protection regulations § 5: A management plan should be prepared• Process

• Start: January 2009

• Consultation with the Sami Parliament.

• A Working Committee («Arbeidsutvalg») established• Eight representatives:

• Two representatives from the municipalities

• One representative from the private land owners

• One representative Statskog (state land owner)

• Three Sami representatives

• One representative from the County Governors office (leader of the board)

• Purpose: take care of sami interests and support the County Governors office during the writing process

• The consultations should be accomplished in good faith with the aim of agreement.

• Alternative motions

• Seven meetings

• Public meetings and field excursions

• First draft: accepted by the Norwegian Directorate for Nature management (DN) in 2010

• Hearing in the periode from september to december 2010

• Final draft sent DN January 2011, accepted with some changes Juni 2012.

The Management plan – results• Good athmosphere in the woorking committee

• Agreement

• A lot of statements from the public• Management plan with four main parts

• Introduction

• Description of the protected areas

• User interests (main part)

• Guidelines for proceedings (who, when etc )

• User interests• Reindeer heerding

• Recreation, fishing, hunting

• Tourism

• Buildings

• Use of motorised vehicles

• Exploitation of nature resources

• Cultural herritage

• Todays situation, goals, regulations and guidelines

The Management plan – results• Important topics in the working committee

• LOFAST (main road) and a new trail

• Marking of trails

• Conflict between land owners and tourist business

• Conflict between local inhabitants and the municipalities regarding design of the gateways of the national park

Møysalen national park and protected landscape - the process of making a management plan Christian Brun-Jenssen County Governor of Nordland.

Documents

public management plan

recreational use slide

nature management dn

protected landscape

sami representatives

private land owners

writing process

prepared process