Forests of Sweden - Wikipedia
A forest in Dalarna. Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [2]
Sweden's forests have doubled in size over the last 100 years
Dec 13, 2018 · Sweden holds less than 1% of the world’s commercial forests, yet supplies 10% of all the timber, pulp and paper on the global market. And in spite of this, its forest cover has doubled during the last century. How has it managed this extraordinary feat?
Swedish Forest Agency - Government.se
The Swedish Forest Agency is the administrative authority for issues concerning forestry. It works to ensure that the country’s forests are protected and used in such a way that they yield a good, sustainable return while maintaining biological diversity.
The forest and sustainable forestry - Swedish Wood
What Sweden’s forests looks like. Almost 70 percent of Sweden’s land area is covered in forest, and that figure has remained stable for a long time. As much as 83 percent of Sweden’s forest land is coniferous forest, with mixed forest accounting for 12 …
Sustainable Forests - naturvardsverket.se
Forests cover over half the area of Sweden. The majority of them are coniferous, but in the south there are extensive broadleaved woodlands. The appearance and dominant tree species of these forests are a product of the country’s climate and our history.
Insights about Swedish forests and forestry - Forest Industries
Nov 7, 2023 · Swedish forests. In Sweden alone, forest covers 70 per cent of the surface. There are around 87 billion trees. The Swedish forest is divided in three regions; Nemoral forest with species as beech and oak in the southernmost part, a large boreal region dominated by pine and spruce and the alpine region with mostly spruce and on higher altitudes ...
Statistics - Skogsstyrelsen
Sep 20, 2024 · The Swedish Forest Agency is a statistical agency and we are responsible for three forest statistical areas included in The Official Statistics of Sweden; "Forestry production", "Employment in forestry" and "Environment and social values in forestry".
Swedish Forest Agency - Skogsstyrelsen
The Swedish Forest Agency is the national authority in charge of forest-related issues. Our main function is to promote the kind of management of Sweden's forests that enables the objectives of forest policy to be attained.
About us - Skogsstyrelsen
The Swedish Forest Agency is the national authority in charge of forest-related issues. Our main function is to promote the kind of management of Sweden's forests that enables the objectives of forest policy to be attained.
Swedish forestry through the ages - Forest Industries
Swedish forestry through the ages. From the stone age until the modern day – the forest has always been important to humankind. In this timeline, the historian Gunnar Wetterberg describes how humanity has used the forest and how today’s sustainable forestry came about.