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Posts from the ‘Skógrækt ríkisins’ Category

Our team of volunteers “from 6 to 66 years old”.

In July we were joined by volunteers from Sjá (Sjálfboðaliðasamtök Um Náttúrvernd) for a special weekend project in Thórsmörk. More than 40 participants took part in our biggest project of the summer (and biggest project ever!).

The group worked in small teams on a series of hiking trail maintenance and erosion control projects on several sites. These included the west side of Valahnúkur as well as sites close to Húsadalur and Sönghellir where erosion fences were construced. A huge amount of work was completed in theses areas over the two days. Hosting and organizing food for 40+ people set a new record at our Langidalur base camp!

We would like to thank everyone who was involved and look forward to working with our friends from Sjá in Thórsmörk next season. We have added some pictures of the weekend to a new album on Flickr.

Video from Sjá… Icelandic nature conservation volunteers

Familiar faces from 2013… A video posted by our friends from Sjá (Sjálfboðaliðasamtök um náttúruvernd). Our international volunteers worked together with Icelandic volunteers on a special weekend project close to Húsadalur in summer 2013.

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Pictures from the Kattarhryggur steps…

One of our most ambitions and challenging projects has been the building of timber steps close to Kattarhryggur on the Fimmvörðuháls trail. Work began in 2013 and continued with a second phase last summer.

There is more work to do and we look forward to returning to the site, but we have collected together these albums of pictures to tell the story so far…