Anything goes? PEFC certified Finnish forestry: new case studies

>>> Parvavaara, Posio

Finding: old-growth logging planned. The Forest Service is planning to clearcut in the Parvavaara old-growth forest. The forest that will now be clearcut is described in the inventories of the Forest Service as "a valuable entity that is to a large extents in its natural state and rich in dead wood". There is a complete continuum of dead scots pine in the forest.

>>> Matalavaara, Posio

Finding: old-growth logging allowed. A valuable old-growth forest that had been proposed to be integrated to the Riisitunturi National Park was logged by the Forest Service in 2000. The area was fragmented with tens of hectares of clearcuts. One of the clearcuts was done in a forest that has been described as "one of the most prominent old-growth forests of the area". The forest hosted several old-growth forest indicating species, among them the endangered Haploporus odorus.

>>> Valkealehto, Posio

Finding: old-growth forest logging allowed. An old-growth forest area described as "irreplaceably valuable" in Forest Service inventories was fragmented with tens of hectares of clearcuts in the winter of 2000. The area was a network of natural-state forest islands and peatlands. According to the inventories, the area "included a network of exceptionally valuable old-growth forests, natural-state peatlands and small waterways". The forests were abundant in old aspen and there was a near-complete continuum of dead spruce in the area.

>>> Aneenvaara, Posio

Finding: old-growth forest logging planned. The Forest Service has planned to log the old-growth forests of Aneenvaara in large clearcuts. The Aneenvaara area was included in the Protection Program for Old-Growth Forests in Northern Finland as an area whose ecological value should have been preserved by the Forest Service.

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