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Lierne National Park, established in 2004, protects 333 square kilometres of wilderness on the Swedish border in northern Trøndelag. This is one of the few places in southern Scandinavia where all four large predators, bear, wolverine, lynx and wolf, are present in the same landscape.
The park is dominated by boreal forest, with ancient pine and spruce stands that have escaped logging due to the remote, roadless terrain. Virgin forest of this kind is extremely rare in Scandinavia, where nearly all lowland forests have been logged at least once. The old trees and abundant deadwood support species that have vanished from managed forests elsewhere.
South Sami culture runs deep in Lierne municipality. The park area has been used for reindeer herding for as long as records exist, and Sami families still move their herds through the park seasonally. The municipality itself is one of the most sparsely populated in Trøndelag, with roughly 1,400 people spread across an area larger than many European countries' capital cities.
The park is dominated by boreal forest, with ancient pine and spruce stands that have escaped logging due to the remote, roadless terrain. Virgin forest of this kind is extremely rare in Scandinavia, where nearly all lowland forests have been logged at least once. The old trees and abundant deadwood support species that have vanished from managed forests elsewhere.
South Sami culture runs deep in Lierne municipality. The park area has been used for reindeer herding for as long as records exist, and Sami families still move their herds through the park seasonally. The municipality itself is one of the most sparsely populated in Trøndelag, with roughly 1,400 people spread across an area larger than many European countries' capital cities.