Current forestry practices make for increasingly stouter trees
The 10th National Forest Inventory. Photo: Krista Kimmo



The amount of stout trees, of which diameter is over 30 centimetres, has more than doubled in 60 years. Their share of growing stock has increased, too.
Wood is more climate-friendly than concrete in construction
Protection of white-backed woodpecker has succeeded

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