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Nordic forests need a different kind of strategy than the one for the rest of Europe. (Photo: Wagner T. Cassimiro "Aranha")

The EU Commission got its forest strategy wrong

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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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

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Dr. Björn Hägglund is professor Emeritus Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and former Director General of the Swedish Forest Agency.

Nordic forests need a different kind of strategy than the one for the rest of Europe. (Photo: Wagner T. Cassimiro "Aranha")

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Dr. Björn Hägglund is professor Emeritus Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and former Director General of the Swedish Forest Agency.

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