Logging
by the governmental Forest and Park Service
in summer 1999:
Adjacent to Peurajärvi recreation site, Nurmes

"No more vast clearcuts"

Forest management by the Forest and Park Service in Nurmes, eastern Finland in summer 1999.

Soft forestry methods á la state enterprise:
Clearcut is right next to the Peurajärvi recreation site.

Loggings have been concentrated in the old-growth forests just in time - the ecological landscape plan for Nurmes area is only in process.

Hundreds of years-old Scots pines have been left in the middle of the multiple-hectare clearcut.

Few patches are left of what used to be vast wilderness areas in Northern Karelia - the rest are vanishes due to the ecological forest management of Forest and Park Service.

Diverse old-growth forests are soon found only in protected areas. In Nurmes municipality less than 3 percent of the forests have been protected.

Finnish forestry in 1999:
Pulping and sawmilling the taiga for the European market
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