Ecological landscape planning

Processes in the forest take time. Therefore, we base our ecological landscape planning on a perspective that stretches over a century or more. Within landscape planning, we address nature conservation issues by broadening our scope to identify the needs and conditions of the forest from a landscape perspective.

This means we work with conserving, developing and restoring across larger landscapes, encompassing areas between 5,000 and 50,000 hectares.

A fundamental aspect of our ecological landscape planning is the inventory and mapping of our forests to identify areas with high nature values, such as old forests, a high proportion of deciduous trees, or significant amounts of dead wood. We then adapt our forestry and nature conservation efforts based on the conditions of each forest area and utilize different tools from our nature conservation palette.

Ecological landscape planning thus enables us to effectively create various values in different parts of our forests.

Forests with high conservation value

After thorough inventories and analyses, we establish so-called conservation areas, which are larger areas that require special treatment in forestry management due to their high conservation value.

Forests with the highest conservation will be saved as voluntary set-asides, which means they are either left to develop naturally or actively managed to benefit species and other nature values. In forests with other types of conservation values, we can combine forestry with measures that preserve or enhance those values. We refer to these as forests with combined targets. In some cases, we adapt our harvesting operations to meet the needs of specific species.

Basic retention

The majority of our forests are managed using clear-felling methods where we always apply basic rentention. This means that we, for example, preserve conservation areas, buffer zones along waterways and wetlands, older trees and dead wood. Read more under environmental conservation.