We are approaching the reindeer kalvningstid in the mountains. The time when vajor looking up their traditional kalvningsland and is extremely sensitive to disturbance.
Vålådalsfjällen belong to the mountains, where reindeer herding is the most constricted of tourism. This has increased greatly in a short time and a new large and growing group of visitors have been added: the mtb-riders, as the bikes through the renbetesland.
it has been expressed that the current developments make that reindeer herding may need to be put down due to the great disturbance of the calm grazing conditions and calving.
Something that further exacerbated the situation is that the road to Storulvåns tourist station, which is built in the center of a sami camp among the area’s best pastures, no longer closed in may.
a few generations ago, the sami had the legal title to the mountains. This was the dispossessed without a hearing in court.
out in practice is to deprive them of even brukarrätten by making it more difficult for the reindeer. It takes place in this case by not adequately regulate the rapidly growing tourism in the renbetesland. This can not be allowed to continue.
