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Triglav National Park is the largest protected area in Slovenia that is established for the conservation of an area’s natural and cultural heritage. However, it is also destined for recreation that is subject to specific regulations in order to respect certain environmental guidelines. This ethnographic paper discusses strategies mountain bikers employ to negotiate the existing rules regarding the recreational use of the park’s lands; in addition, the authors propose solutions to diminish their demands with the aim of ensuring quiet space for the park’s wildlife.

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The paper describes a new locality and sites of Pulmunaria australis in the Triglav Mountains under the peak Spodnja Brda on the northern edge of the Pokljuka plateau. Pulmonaria australis is a new species in the flora of both the Triglav National Park and the eastern Julian Alps. This locality is very different from its other known localities in Slovenia in terms of its elevation belt (almost 1800 m a.s.l.) and its sites (stony grassland on an overgrown scree slope with dominating species of the class Elyno-Seslerietea); it is, however, similar to some Pulmonaria australis sites in other Alpine regions, such as South Tyrol in N Italy.

Applying the standard Central-European method we conducted a phytosociological study of riverine forests along the rivers Sava Bohinjka, Radovna, Učja and the Slatenik brook in northwestern Slovenia and compared them to similar riverine forests in the Soča river basin and the neighbouring countries of Croatia, Austria and Italy. Based on this comparison they were classified into the following syntaxa: Salicetum eleagno-purpureae, Salicetum albae, Lamio orvalae-Salicetum eleagni (also in the new subassociation -caricetosum eletae) and Lamio orvalae-Alnetum incanae (also in the new subassociation -fraxinetosum excelsioris and -rhamnetosum fallacis). We described successive replacement (zonation) of communities along the Sava Bohinjka from initial gravel beds towards beech communities on higher lying river terraces. Applying the phytoindication method we evaluated the production capacity of economically the most valuable type of the studied riverine forests, stands of the subassociation Lamio orvalae-Alnetum incanae fraxinetosum excelsioris.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

A professional series published since 1990. It is published periodically and covers a variety of topics. It presents the professional projects of the Triglav National Park.

The following paper contains a discussion of the theoretical and methodological challenges to understanding the complex reality of heritage production and preservation practices within Triglav National Park (TNP), focusing in particular on the relationship between natural and cultural heritage. As Slovenia’s only national park, TNP is a central site of Slovenia’s national heritage as well as a unique landscape that itself is home to a whole range of heritage elements, both natural and cultural. The central challenge to under- standing the culture of heritage within the park lies in the heritage diversity within the park. The author assesses the extent to which employing the concept of contiguity and map- ping out fields of contiguity in which diversity is expressed and practiced can enable the researcher to analyze the way that the relationship between nature and culture, between natural and cultural heritage has been defined, expressed and realized in diverse ways over time.

In the Julian Alps, on the mountain pasture Klek on the Pokljuka plateau and in the Triglav mountains (Lazovški preval, Ogradi, Mišelj vrh, Koštrunovec) we discovered orchids of the genus Nigritella with pale pink flowers. Based on their colour and the shape of the inflorescence, the structure of a single flower and their flowering period we determined them as Nigritella widderi. This eastern-Alpine-Apennine species is a novelty in the flora of both the Julian Alps and the Southeastern Alps in general. We described its sites and made a phytosociological table to present the communities of alpine swards on calcareous bedrock, which are host also to some other species from the genus Nigritella, especially Nigritella bicolor.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

Slovenia, in its small area, offers an exceptional mosaic of biological, landscape, and cultural diversity, as well as a large number of natural values and cultural heritage. In this publication, you can read more about Slovenia's national parks.