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![The road Stamnes-Eidslandet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_336_zzz.jpg?itok=HOHn9Gl1)
Dalseid- Eidslandet road construction
![Kårstad, Veafjorden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_336_zz.jpg?itok=A1-9xe5P)
![The defensive refuge at Borgåsen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-etne-2_img_1.jpg?itok=9l2JAuTi)
Borgåsen
In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and protection for central parts of the district
![Stordalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/stordalen_endret_til_rgb.jpg?itok=nn6EunGo)
Stordalen
When the Etne water system was protected in 1994, preservation of the cultural landscape in Stordalen Valley was a a main objective. This is a valley with an exceptional abundance of Different types of plants and animals. In the grey alder forest in Stordalen there are more bird species than in most other places, in fact, denser than one tends to find in a tropical rainforest.
![From the old road along the Åkrafjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_190_akrafjord_veg_2_150.jpg?itok=0G_IOg6S)
![Ferstad, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_235-2-2.jpg?itok=C804au8t)
Ferstad
Ferstad is well worth a visit. The farm lies on a little hillock south of Lekven: a beautiful official residence from the 1700s.
![The monks leave their mark at Lysekloster](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_24.jpg?itok=Q5bQc7i9)
Lysekloster- The monks and nature
Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister encompassed two-thirds of all the farms in Os. The monks introduced and cultivated new plant species and it was probably they who stocked the waters with fish not indigenous to the area. This legacy from the Middle Ages has left a lasting mark.
![Lysekloster](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_6.jpg?itok=5Pxxxlbo)
Lysekloster- Mushroom flora
The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from the varied, old, cultural landscape which has a lot of open grazing areas and several types of fir- and deciduous forests.
![Geologist William Helland-Hansen examining a quartz conglomerate in the Ulven Syncline on one of the hills by the north west end of Lake Ulvenvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_31.jpg?itok=kdZe21Du)
Ulven
In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squeezed into the bottom of an ancient oceanic crust, made of gabbro and greenstone, in the heart of the Caledonide mountain chain.