Regulation No. 1665 on protection of Øykjeheia natural reserve, Sirdal municipality, Vest-Agder.

The purpose of this Regulation is to preserve one of the most interesting and largest contiguous mature forest areas in the region, with the area's flora, fauna and natural ecological processes. Øykjeheia is a pine forest area with good soil unaffected by modern forestry. Along with Maritshei area, it has particular importance for biodiversity constituting a type area for Sørlandets birch and pine forest region with a coherent vertical gradient of 50-500 m. The area of approx. 13 091 acres also has elements of boreal deciduous forests, rich swamp forests and anthropogenous harvesting forest. The objective of this Regulation 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. e) Bonfires are prohibited.