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![Vollom](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_14.jpg?itok=RhEa2l84)
Vollom
On Vollom, northwest of Seim, we find the only natural beech forest in Western Norway, which is also the most northerly of its type in the world. Beech grows also many other places in the county, but these trees are totally lacking in history compared with those of Vollomskogen Forest.
![Steinslandsstølen around 1950.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_331-_2.jpg?itok=4EWYkknE)
Stølsheimen
The large mountain area between Modalen, the Voss communities and Sogn is one of the finest mountain pasture areas in West Norway. In older times this area was called Steinslandsheimen, in our times it has acquired the name Stølsheimen. Power development and protection interests have been opposed here. The core area of Stølsheimen has now been protected as a landscape protection area, while some of the oldest mountain farms have been flooded. A register in the 1970s comprised almost 40 mountain farm settlements in the central area of Stølsheimen, belonging to Modalen, Høyanger and Vik municipalities.
![Boatshed](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_335-3.jpg?itok=egD0W5wD)
![Skreien](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_21.jpg?itok=H25GT68d)
![There are many puffins in the sea around the bridge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/meland_8.jpg?itok=5TiJeTbf)
Salhusfjorden
When the debate about building a pontoon bridge over Salhus Fjord was raging, some were afraid that the bridge would disrupt the ecology of the fjord system inside. The worst predictions did not prove true, but it is easy to see that there was a change: the Puffins have gotten a new food platter after the Nordhordaland bridge was built. Its favourite meal, mussels, thrive on the pontoons that are the foundation for the bridge.
![The south side of Raunøya.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_21.jpg?itok=1rzpCAcc)
Raunøya
The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden.
![Otterstadstølen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mo_4.jpg?itok=yFY5zoII)
Otterstadstølen
Otterstadstølen lies in an idyllic grassy plain surrounded by rich forest, but also with high mountains close by. The mountainsides are steep and typical of this part of the county. The same cannot be said about the forest. This spruce forest has been able to develop freely for hundreds of years. Otherwise in the county, only Voss has spruce forest.
![Mo with the Otterstad farm in the background early in the 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_329-1_0.jpg?itok=JUVMdLHq)
Otterstad
Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the farm were probably constructed a little after the middle of the 1800s. Both here and on the Mo side, the boatsheds were important storage places at the seashore; wood and other farm products intended for the town; corn and merchandise in return.
![The saws at Mollandseid, Masfjorden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_321-2_b.jpg?itok=di0wkNMe)
Mollandseid
In Mollandsvågen, close by the river that runs from Mollandsvatnet (lake) into the fjord, are two water-powered circular saws and a mill. This small industrial centre has belonged to the farms Molland, Reknes and Duesund, which together own the rights to the waterfall
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.