The Prestaksla Nature Reserve () is located on the Prestneset headland in

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. The area received protection in 2010 in order to protect an important forest area. The area has broadleaf deciduous forest mixed with pine forest. The broadleaf deciduous forest primarily contains

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and some

elm Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus ''Ulmus'' in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical- montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ...

. On the wooded mountainside below Prestaksla, there is a partially

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pine forest. The reserve is located close to

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's childhood home at the Nesset Parsonage.

References

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External links

''Mijlø-direktoratet: Prestaksla''. Map and description of the nature reserve.

Miljøverndepartementet. 2009. ''Prestaksla naturreservat, Nesset kommune, Møre og Romsdal fylke''. 1:6,000 map of the nature reserve.

Miljøverndepartementet. 2016. ''Prestaksla naturreservat, Nesset kommune, Møre og Romsdal fylke''. 1:10,000 map of the nature reserve.

''Forskrift om vern av Prestaksla naturreservat, Nesset kommune, Møre og Romsdal''. 2010.
Nature reserves in Norway Protected areas of Møre og Romsdal Molde Protected areas established in 2010