The EU Commission recently published its new controversial forest strategy. The strategy, if it comes into force, will have negative implications for Nordic forestry.
Among many aspects of forestry discussed in the strategy is the matter of how to best harvest the wood.
The Commission seems to advocate continuity forestry, without regeneration felling (which is when the greater part of a forest is felled where most of the trees are fully grown) and by doing so ignoring the compl...
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Dr. Björn Hägglund is professor Emeritus Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and former Director General of the Swedish Forest Agency.