Sweden and Finland have an internationally recognized nature conservation jackpot on offer
Sweden and Finland have an internationally recognized nature conservation jackpot on offer
It would be good for Sweden and Finland - without reducing forest productivity - to switch to continuous growth forestry - and to ban timber fields in addition to clear felling.
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It would be good for Sweden and Finland - without reducing forest productivity - to switch to continuous growth forestry - and to ban timber fields in addition to clear felling - in addition to securing the overall diversity of the forest, also for the reason - that at least in Finland, the overly dense seedling thickets after clear felling are not only poor in terms of diversity, but also the worst growth that can be imagined that suppresses the overall growth of the forest.
In a continuously growing, multi-species, multi-age forest, all those problems are gone, including ensuring a steady supply of forest produce each year - but in addition, a diverse, multi-species, and multi-age forest is in a completely different class in terms of storm resistance than wooded fields that fall by the hectare like matchsticks breaking in a storm. Causing huge losses.
I suspect that the prime ministers have not been educated about these matters.
Ps. In addition, the prime ministers of Sweden and Finland could make a joint policy and decision - that the countries' agricultural ditches be protected by buffer strips facing the ditches - which would prevent those ditch waters from being transported through the peat filtration - and ultimately polluting the Baltic Sea.
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