Regulation No. 1654 on protection of Orsjømyra natural reserve, Skien municipality, Telemark.

The purpose of this Regulation is to preserve the natural reserve of Orsjømyra - an area of particular importance for biodiversity containing an adjacent wooded area with poor coniferous forest, but locally much dead wood. The area which extends to approximatelly 1 094 acres has particular scientific value due to one of the largest ombo-minerotrophic moors without interfering in the lower part of Telemark, and of dactylorhiza traunsteineri and several rare and endangered species of wood-inhabiting fungi associated with dead wood of spruce. The objective of these regulations is to maintain conservation values in the most untouched state, and possibly developing them.
The natural reserve protection shall include the following safety regulations: vegetation, including dead trees and bushes, are protected against damage and destruction – it is therefore forbidden to remove plants and fungi or parts thereof from the reserve. Planting or seeding of trees and other vegetation is prohibited. b) Wildlife, including nesting sites are protected against damage, destruction and unnecessary disturbance. The release of animals is prohibited. c) No measures that could change the natural environment may be implemented (construction of buildings, equipment, fences or other permanent or temporary facilities, parking of caravans, barracks, overhead lines, underground cables or sewers, construction of roads, drainage or other form of reclamation, removal, filling or storage mass, discharge of sewage or other concentrated contaminant, dropping of waste, fertilizing, liming or use of chemical pesticides). Littering is prohibited. d) Use of the natural reserve to major events is prohibited.