Anything goes? case studies
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This old-growth forest logging plan was presented in Anything Goes? report in January 2001. The logging plan was implemented in February 2001.

>>> Alannesuo-Raatevaara (K-3), Suomussalmi

Logging plans of the old-growth forests of Raatevaara were implemented in February 2001.

Over 20 hectares of old-growth forest was clearcut. Single aspens were left standing on the clearcut-sites. The forest had been classified as valuable old-growth forest by the Forest Service as well as by NGOs. Endangered Flying squirrel has been observed in the forest. Stora Enso and UPM-Kymmene bought the timber. When the old-growth forest conservation program for northern Finland was prepared in 1998, the forests of Alannesuo-Raatevaara were classified as A-sites by the Finnish Government. According to a report by the FPS itself, "the inventory area has so called classical old-growth forests with abundant dead wood, the structure of the forest is multi-layered and dense...observations of the flying squirrel...".

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