ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experiences from two of the major Action Research projects from Danish rural community contexts, both of them initiated at the beginning of the 2000s and both still continuing on their own many years after the formal Action Research projects had come to an end. Throughout this whole period, They had the opportunity and luck to be able to follow and to a certain extent also co-operate with both projects, accompanying them in their different metamorphoses. The two projects described here dealt with the question of democratic nature management related to local community development. The first project was located in Halkr dal, a stream valley in the northern part of Jutland, the main Danish peninsula. The second project was located on the small island of Mn and the tiny neighbouring island of Nyord, in the southeastern part of Denmark.
