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Editorial about forests.
Swedish forestry # 4 – Pre commercial thinning
As mentioned in the article Swedish Forestry #3 there are, in the more or less totally mechanized Swedish…
The bark-beetle invades Europe
After the extremely dry summer in 2018, the spruce forests in parts of Europe have been affected by…
Swedish forestry # 2
Swedish forestry of today is more or less totally mechanized. The chainsaw is mainly used by private forest…
Swedish forestry # 1
Sweden is a small country in northern Europe where forestry has been a key business for almost 200…
Pruning of pine in a 15 years old stand (video)
Pruning of pine shouldn’t be done in the fall. But despite that, I went to the forest to…
Beaver management – important issue in sustainable forestry (Video)
Here is an interesting video about beavers and how the beaver can (or can’t) live together with humans…
Forest fires in Sweden – huge areas burned in 2018
The summer 2018 is already now marked as a historical warm and dry summer as well in Sweden…
Searching for a 50 meter spruce in Sweden – Part 1
As you might know, Sweden is located at very Northern latitudes but thank’s to the Golf stream its…
Terrible storm felled 8 million m3 in Poland
A terrible storm felled more than eight million cubic meters of wood in Poland this August. Several persons…
New World Record In Forest Tree Planting
With 17.681 seedlings planted in 24 hours, Timo Kloft now claims a new world record in forest tree…
