{"id":1572,"date":"2016-06-14T01:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2016-06-16T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:07:12","slug":"1572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2016\/06\/14\/1572\/","title":{"rendered":"A Postcard from Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Withrow-Robinson. OSU Forestry & Natural Resources agent, Benton, Linn and Polk Counties.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the fjord regions of Norway, both forestry and farming are limited to the area between the rock and the water.\u00a0\u00a0 The bottom of the valley is farmed, and the narrow toes of the valley walls are forested. Many communities were not connected by roads until the 1920s.\u00a0 It is beautiful country, but it strikes me as a beautiful place to starve. It is not hard to see why so many people left for America in the late 19th<\/sup> Century.\u00a0 Those who stayed looked for alternative sources of income to supplement farm incomes\/earnings.<\/p>\n

\n \"Looking<\/a>\n
Looking up valley and seeing patches of spruce and pine on lower slopes of valley wall.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

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\n \"Local<\/a>\n
Local County Forester Rune K. discussing management of Spruce in the Valley.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

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Many of the family farm and forest owners in the Andalsness area of Romdal Conty are now \u201cfarming tourists\u201d to one degree or another. Farmers in the Innfjorden valley now run a cooperative of about 60 rental cabins in their traditional summer pasture areas near the head of the valley. They are popular destinations in summer and winter for fishing, hiking and skiing.\u00a0 The vacationers are not limited to the cooperatives land holding, since Scandinavian tradition and law allows open access for such activities across all lands.<\/p>\n

\n \"Jacob<\/a>\n
Jacob Hagen explains the conversion of the traditional common summer grazing areas to cooperative recreation rentals.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
\n \"Traditional<\/a>\n
Traditional rustic cabins like this are mixed in with newer rustic cabins.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

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It is not an easy or lucrative place to grow and especially harvest and sell logs.<\/p>\n

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\n \"Watching<\/a>\n
Watching a gravity (down hill) logging operation near Byrkjelo Norway<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
\n \"A<\/a>\n
A turn of small spruce logs arriving at the landing<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

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\n \"County<\/a>\n
County Forester Torkel (wearing Sgakit logging tower T-shirt) talks harvesting equipment with Columbia county landowner\/logger KC Van Natta.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

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Wish you were here.<\/p>\n

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Brad<\/p>\n

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Brad Withrow-Robinson. OSU Forestry & Natural Resources agent, Benton, Linn and Polk Counties. In the fjord regions of Norway, both forestry and farming are limited to the area between the rock and the water.\u00a0\u00a0 The bottom of the valley is farmed, and the narrow toes of the valley walls are forested. Many communities were not… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}