Management of forest resources

Although no forest management activities are completely environmentally friendly, Norway's forest policy – aimed at the preservation of forest areas – belongs to the best in the world. Most of the damage noticed today was made from the 17th to the 20th century. It was caused by deforestation for farmland and timber.

Huge forests cover together 12 million hectares of land, or 37% Norway surface, of which 2 – 5% they are old trees. This can be translated into 600 million cubic meters of potential wood. Currently, numerous small forestry enterprises, operating mainly in the eastern part of the country, they cut approx. 20 million cubic meters of wood per year. In some regions, a comma is used, but luckily rarely and on a small scale. It generally works by selectively cutting down trees to prevent soil erosion and adverse landscape degradation. Moreover, the aforementioned companies immediately create young forests in place of felled trees, in the amount of approx. 60 million seedlings per year.