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Apart from settlements in Skoglia, it\u2019s unknown if people made permanent homes in the valley. \u00c5nderdalen was undoubtably an important hunting and fishing location for its coastal inhabitants.<\/p>\n
In Gjeska there are signs of dwelling-places from the 16th to until the 19th century. Up into the valley of Gjeskedalen there are many historic hay-meadow areas. In Skoglia there are still the ruins of the croft of J\u00f8rgen J\u00f8rgensen from Gauldalen. J\u00f8rgen attempted to establish a farm croft over 200 years ago yet was so harassed by bears that he abandoned the attempt. In 1890 Nils Olai Olsen Skogli arrived and lived in Skoglia for 75 years. Succeeding Nils was his son Gabriel, who lived at his father\u2019s namesake place until he died in 1994. In former times there were upland meadowlands in Selfjordbotn.<\/p>\n
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Lunch-stop at \u00c5ndergammen. Photo: Ingve Birkeland<\/p>\n
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Old shooting hides at Stortinden. Photo: Hans Peder Pedersen<\/p>\n
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After the church at Tran\u00f8ya was built in the 13th century, the forests, mountains, rivers, and lakes became property of the church and the state. Since then, most of the deciduous forests of Senja have become public property. There are relics of old haybarns and upland meadows in several locations around \u00c5nderdalen. These were likely used by crofters living along Tran\u00f8yfjorden. Pine forest was valuable and large areas of the Park show signs of historic logging activity. Placenames such as F\u00f8rstevelten (\u2018First-Topple\u2019) and Andrevelten (\u2018Second-Topple\u2019) indicate that timber were rolled down steep hills at such places. Rolling the logs down steep terrain was deemed a safer alternative than using horses to drag the logs in these places, as was otherwise common practise.<\/p>\n
The first Sami inhabitants of Senja were Coastal Sami who settled here in the Saga times (the early 2nd century\/around the year 1000). These people lived by hunting and fishing, and \u00c5nderdalen was an important hunting ground. The Coastal Sami were skilled bear hunters and could be relied upon to help when bears threatened the livestock of their farmer neighbours. Some Sami who migrated with reindeer flocks in the spring from Jukkasj\u00e4rvi, in Sweden, thereafter established a home for themselves on Senja. Many living on Senja today have descendants from Sweden. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sami often had summer dwellings in Holmedalen and Gjeskeheia and many placenames in \u00c5nderdalen have a historic connection with the early Sami.<\/p>\n
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In 1796 J\u00f8rgen J\u00f8rgensen from Gauldalen settled in Skoglia which is just outside that which would become the Park\u2019s boundary. In 1890 the hunter Nils Olai Olsen Skogli arrived in Skoglia. He lived there for 75 years until his death in 1965 aged 91. Gabriel, Nils\u2019 son, continued in his father\u2019s footsteps and lived in Skoglia his entire life.
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\u00c5ndergammen. Photo: Ingve Birkeland<\/p>\n
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\u00c5nderdalen. Photo: Ingve Birkeland<\/p>\n
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The writer, poet, intellectual, environmentalist and \u2018North- Norwegian patriot\u2019, Hans Kristian Eriksen, was born in Kiberg in Varanger in 1933. In 1954 he settled at Songlandseidet in Southern Senja, rapidly adjusting his identity to that of a Senja inhabitant of the time. Hans Kristian was an outdoorsman, and he conveyed his many impressions of Senja\u2019s nature through poetry and writing articles on local history and natural history. \u00c5nderdalen immediately became important for him during his first year on Senja. He was captivated by the valley\u2019s impressive Pine forest and land formations and campaigned for protective measures for the old-growth forest. On February 6th, 1970, \u00c5nderdalen received its first National Park protection status.<\/p>\n
Because of Hans Kristian\u2019s outstanding commitment and efforts to establish the Park, he is given the appropriate title of \u2018Father of \u00c5nderdalen National Park\u2019.<\/p>\n
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