Forest Club model projects and sites

FINLAND

Criteria

Boundaries of the investigation
The map covers the whole country except Ahvenanmaa (Åland) autonomous area.

Definition used
The Fennoscandian definition stated in this report (see under Norway) has been used. Complementary criteria have been that:

• The trees or part of them are classified as "overmature"
• no logging operations conducted within the last 40 years
• the amount of dead trees exceeds 10 cubm per ha or 10 percent of the total wood volume
• the forest is situated on forest land (annual production exceeds 1 cubm per ha)

Size of areas
The minimum size has been 50 ha. All areas are shown as polygons.

Protected areas
Protected areas are shown. The decision of protection must be publicly available. The category includes areas protected by the state (nature reserves, national parks), accepted state protection programs and areas protected by the ecological landscape plans of the Forest and Park Service.

The data on protected areas shows the status on September 30th 1999.

Limitations
The map is showing all publicly known areas. It is reasonable to believe that some areas, mainly on company land, are not publicly known due to the forest sector's unwillingness to reveal these areas.

Sources

The main sources have been age class maps, reports, field trips, and personal contacts. Satellite images and age class maps have been used as base information showing potential old growth areas. This information has been refined through field trips, reports and interviews with more than 100 persons.

Main personal sources have been Jarmo Pyykko (northernmost Lapland), Keijo Savola, Matti Liimatainen, and Laura Rasanen. Published sources of particular importance are:

• Ecological landscape plans of the Forest and Park Service
• Publications of the nature conservation (Green series) by the Forest and Park Service
• Old Growth Forest Protection Programs I, II and III of the Finnish Ministry of Environment
• Proposal for the Natura 2000 network by Finnish Ministry of Environment

Time

The mapping started in 1992. The major part of the work was carried out between autumn 1998 and September 1999.

Map coordinator

Mr. Olli Turunen
Annankatu 26A, 5 KRS
SF-00100 Helsinki
Finland
tel. +358 40 7553815
email: opturune@cc.helsinki.fi

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