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Logarska dolina is a valley on the north-eastern side of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. It is a typical alpine glacial valley offering great views and sheltering the waterfall Rinka at its end, one of the highest waterfalls in Slovenia. To protect the nature of Logarska dolina, the former municipality Mozirje proclaimed Logarska dolina landscape park in 1987 together with a neighbouring valley Robanov kot.
But possessing simply a legal status of protected area without management did not stop the negative impacts of tourism, which were particularly strong in the 1980s. In 1992 local landowners and other stakeholders in the valley decided to take action. They established a private company of 14 stakeholders and obtained the concession for the management of the park.
The company developed a strategy with two main goals: to protect nature and to stimulate sustainable development (farming, forestry and tourism) of the Logarska valley widening the parc to the Solčavsko area.
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As the only public means of financing an entrance fee for motor vehicles was introduced. The company works as a non-profit organization, all profit is invested into development projects and infrastructure. During the years activities have been focused to arrange the infrastructure in the valley, visitor management and marketing. Company has made important steps for the development of Logarska dolina what was stimulating also for the whole Solčavsko region. Optimistic results in balanced sustainable development and nature protection have resulted in initiatives to establish a regional park in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps with the involvement of five municipalities. The plan is to finish establishment process for the regional park in 2011.
The municipality of Solčava has established the institution Center Rinka, which has focus to manage tourism and sustainable development for the whole Solčavsko region. The company Logarska dolina is in this manner relieved of certain tasks for the widen area and so the main projects in the next years will be: focus on visitor management with further reduction of individual motor traffic, oriented tourism and support for secondary activities in the park.
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Name of protected area
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Managing enterprise (if different)
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Logarska dolina d.o.o.
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Country
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Slovenia
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Area (ha)
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2438
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Year of creation
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1987
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UICN category
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V
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Legal basis
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Ordinance on the designation of natural site and cultural and historical monuments in the Mozirje municipality (Official Journal SRS, no. 27/87)
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Included regions
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Upper Savinja valley
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Number of municipalities
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1
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Highest point (m)
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730
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Lowest point (m)
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2394
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Population
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35
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Forest surface
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approximately 1700 ha
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Glacier surface
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Pasture surface
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10 ha
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Prevailing landscape types
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mountain landscape with a crown of rocky masses, screes and dwarf pines, slope and valley forests, valley pastures, waterfalls
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Emblematic fauna
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chamois, ibex, peregrine falcon, golden eagle, planinski orel, alpine marmot, western capercaillie, black grouse, rock ptarmigan, tengmalm's owl, rosalia longicorn
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Emblematic flora
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forests of beech, pine and larch trees, rare and protected species; Lady's-slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus), Zois' Bellflower (Campanula zoysii), Auricula (Primula auricula), Lilium carniolicum, endemic species; Cerastium julicum, Allium kermesinum, Leaucanthemum lithopolitanicum
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Major touristic attractions
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scenery of a mountain glacier valley with edge walls, peaks, forests and pastures, 90 metres high waterfall Rinka, waterfall Palenk, trees of exceptional dimensions, preserved farms, naturalistic ethnographic path "Path through Logar valley", over 40 registered natural values
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Information center(s) (quanitity, name, topics)
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Tourist - information centre Logarska dolina
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Internet site
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www.logarska-dolina.si
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Number of employees
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3
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Access
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by car or bus from bigger towns (Ljubljana, Celje, Klagenfurt) at a distance of 75 kilometers
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