Forest owner accused
Here in Finland a landmark legal case is brewing about forest treatment. Single forest owner is being accused of mismanaging his forest.
According to the government dictated forestry regulations, one can only cut as much as sustainable development requires. What do you think that means in practise?
It means that if the owner wants to leave the forest into natural state, owner is allowed to do that. However, if the owner wants to cut trees, owner must follow the law about forest treatment. The law states very clearly, how many trees there must be left standing and how big they should be. After this comes whole slate of different treatment measures. This bureaucratic system leads into forest cultivation, is that sustainable development?
In this case, the enforcing forestry official says that the area, which was cut, should have been cut almost to the bare bones, then treat the soil and plant pine trees instead of firs that used to be dominant tree on the location.
Government now demands 10 000 euro from the forest owner, because he cut only the biggest trees and left everything else on natural state. Owner now wonders the rigid practise, because he has been managing his forests in the same traditional manner for over fifty years and they all grow just fine.
Any cumbersome laws limiting forest management on your area?
July 24th, 2007 12:19
Hello Jarkko,
How are you doing? Seems like you are on vacation because there are not updates since Feb, just checking. I hope you are going come back soon with updates.
September 3rd, 2007 13:06
I do agree with this one considering that forest must really be taken care of . Our world is experiencing global warming and cutting more trees could only worsen this scenario. Here in our place there are also strict regulations concerning forests and the government have made some laws about it as well. Forests are important nowadays and limiting forests management is indeed needed.
January 3rd, 2008 18:08
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