PEFC-certified old-growth forest logging in Finland, September 2003

Logging by Finnish governmental forestry enterprise Metsahallitus in the homeland of indigenous Sami people in northernmost Finland. Photographs in this page are from forests of Juoksemavaara close to the village of Nellim, an old-growth forest area important for the reindeer herding livelihood.

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Machine track in old-growth forest logging site. Stora Enso environmental personnel standing in front of a pulp wood pile in Juoksemavaara
Logging in old-growth forest Finnish Association for Nature Conservation forest campaigner inspecting the several-hundreds-of-year-old pine tree