Natural disruptions, primarily forest fires, have characterised our forests since the ice age. We aim to integrate these processes into our forest management.
The forest ecosystem in northern Sweden has adapted to such major disruptions as natural forest fires. The most common method of harvesting used by SCA is final felling, which in many respects is a disturbance that is similar to a forest fire.
To reintroduce the effects of fire into the ecosystem, SCA carries out controlled burning.
Some forest areas, which for natural reasons have never or rarely been subjected to fire, are excluded from forest management or are managed with specially adapted methods.