Pan European Forest Clearcutting: PEFC-certified old-growth forest destruction in Finland 2002

Photographs in this page: Finnish state-owned old-growth forest in Harjala area in the municipality of Taivalkoski, northeastern Finland. Clearcut in the area begun in January 2002.

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Logger is Finnish state forest enterprise Forest and Park Service.

Harjala forest is included in the Protection Program for Old-Growth Forests in Northern Finland as an area whose ecological value should be preserved by the Forest and Park Service (Decision by the Council of State, 1996). Despite of this, the uniform area is fragmented with several clearcuts.

Other case studies 2002: Umpinainen / Honkanen / Harjala / Jannepuro / Katajasuo / Hameenvaara

Clearcut in old-growth forest. Taivalkoski, Northeastern Finland, February 9, 2002

Finnish design Finnish design. Clearcut in old-growth forest. February 9, 2002
Everything goes. Only a few trees are left in clearcut-sites. Note the person standing under a hundreds-of-years-old dead Scots pine. February 9, 2002
Old-growth forest silhouette Clearcutting the Finnish old-growth forests. Machines of Metsahallitus in Harjala old-growth forest, February 9, 2002