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| Man and the Nature Park |
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 The villages Truden and Altrei, situated around 1,000 above the Etsch plain, lie in the middle of the nature park. The vicinity of those localities to the Fleims and Cembra Valleys is reflected in the Romanic settlement pattern and in the cultural landscape. Time seems to stand still in the Romanic village centers of the two villages.
The division of the land into small lots and the existence of many different minuscule businesses proves that the Romanic real property law was in force here. The particular social and economic situation of this region exercises a great influence on its nature: many mountain pastures were abandoned and the old cottages are starting to dilapidate. Different types of grasses and sometimes even young birches, alders, hazels, larches and spruces take control of the cultural soil, which was created hundreds of years ago from spruce and fir woods.
The initial concept of this nature park saw a problem in this development. Extended clearing measures were envisaged in order to preserve the neat park landscape. But the concept changed: in a landscape where every inch of soil is normally used, the possibility for nature to reconquer some areas can be of great advantage to the natural balance. Expressed differently, in those areas nature is granted a "right to wilderness." |
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