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The versatile use of forests is of increasing interest to Finnish forest owners and entrepreneurs. In addition to wood, forests provide raw materials for the production of food, health products, and...

More than half a million people live along private roads. Private roads are important routes for rural businesses. For example, more than 90 percent of the annually harvested timber goes to processing...

The management of swamp forests should be planned as a whole.

In planned areas, the use of forests and decision-making related to forests must consider not only forest legislation but also plan markings and regulations that are contained in the land use plans...

The regional forest programmes for the period 2021–2025 were published in early December 2020. The programmes are provincial forest sector development plans and work programmes and they have been...

In addition to the Forest Act, the use of forests is regulated by the following acts, among others:

The Finnish Forest Centre processes a wide range of information related to forest management and forest use. The information, its intended use and processing are regulated by the Act on the Finnish...

Forest certification can demonstrate that forests are used responsibly and sustainably. This means that the management and treatment of forests is ecologically, economically and socially sustainable...

In continuous cover forestry, the forest is grown so that there are constantly trees of many sizes and ages in the forest.