Kristen Øyen (born 14 May 1938) is a Norwegian forester. He was born in

Jostedal Jostedal is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1963. It was located in the Jostedalen valley in the northern part of the present-day municipality of ...

, and graduated from the

Norwegian College of Agriculture The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (, NMBU) is a public university located in Ås, Norway. It is located in Akershus county and has around 7,700 students. History The institution was established in 1859 as the Higher Agricultural Coll ...

in 1964. From 1984 to 2001 he was the director of the Norwegian Institute of Land Inventory. In 2006 he released a work on the history of the Norwegian Institute of Land Inventory: ''Kartlegginga av Noregs grøne gull''.List of publications
in

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1938 births Living people People from Luster, Norway Norwegian foresters Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian College of Agriculture alumni {{forester-stub