Finding:
old-growth forest logging planned.
Hammasvaara
is a state-owned old-growth forest area situated in the eastern border
zone between Finland and Russia. A logging plan of about 10 hectares
has been made for the spring of 2001. The landscape ecological plan
carried out by the Forest and Park Service (FPS) protects less than
half of the old-growth forest area from logging. The preserved forest
consists of small fragments spread over a large area. The most recent
logging took place in the spring of 2000 and was criticized by the
regional environmental authorities for destroying the ecological connections.
The planned logging will cause further fragmentation.
Source
of information: the FPS Timber Catalogue 38, logging maps by
the FPS, field trips.
Probable
buyers of the timber: UPM-Kymmene, StoraEnso.
