Finland’s forest resources have grown up to historic record, to 2.5 billion cubic meters.
This has been made possible by long-term forest legislation, which already in the mid-19th century secured forest regeneration.
The structure of forest ownership
Finnish forests are mainly privately owned. Over the last few decades, forest ownership has been divided into smaller and smaller units. So, the area owned by each individual forest owner and the extent to which they rely on that as the primary source of income has decreased.
The fragmentation of the forests, the simultaneous urbanisation of the population, ‘forest heirs collectively’ have forced the buyers of wood to search for new measures to guarantee raw material procurement.
