What is DYLAN?

The project involves both natural and cultural scientists at the university museums in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Tromsø, in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) and Scottish Natural Heritage.

Four sub-projects

•     Mapping of rare nature ecosystem types, species, and all kinds of traces of human influence through several thousand years in four protected landscape areas in different mountain regions in Norway.  These areas are located in Sunndalen, Erdalen, Bødalen, which spans the Jostedal glacier protected area in Sogn og Fjordane, Budalen in Sør-Trøndelag, Grimsdalen in Rondane, Hedmark, and Dividalen in Troms.

•      A review of the conservation philosophy of various rights holders (landowners, farmers, etc.) in the protected landscape areas in Norway, as well as participants from various research and management communities.

•     Examination of how different cultural and natural heritage monuments are assessed in Norway compared to corresponding protected areas of natural and cultural environments in Great Britain.

•     Proposal for new guidelines on how protected landscape areas in the mountains of Norway should be managed based on the findings of the other sub-projects.

Dissemination Project
In addition to the research, dissemination work has started involving the four Norwegian university museums Bergen Museum, the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim, Tromsø University Museum, and the Natural History Museum and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo.
An important task is the communication to various parties and users of the protected areas in addition to a general dissemination to the public, children and young people, the media and others. You may keep up with the course of events in the projects here through texts, photos, and films – and by clicking in on facebook and twitter.

See also the DYLAN project at NTNU