Continuity forest or second-generation forest? Historic aerial photos provide evidence of early clear-cutting in northern Sweden
Modern forestry, which mainly consists of clear-cutting, is one of the most important factors influencing todayâs boreal forests. In Sweden, the breaking point for modern forestry is generally considered to be around 1950. Recently, our common knowledge of the implementation of clear-cutting in Swed...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c5c2a657c1fd4f77a42d29c57a0fa290 2023-05-15T17:44:18+02:00 Continuity forest or second-generation forest? Historic aerial photos provide evidence of early clear-cutting in northern Sweden Lundmark, Hanna Östlund, Lars Josefsson, Torbjörn 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.10460 https://doaj.org/article/c5c2a657c1fd4f77a42d29c57a0fa290 EN eng Finnish Society of Forest Science https://www.silvafennica.fi/article/10460 https://doaj.org/toc/2242-4075 2242-4075 doi:10.14214/sf.10460 https://doaj.org/article/c5c2a657c1fd4f77a42d29c57a0fa290 Silva Fennica, Vol 55, Iss 1 (2021) Forestry SD1-669.5 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.10460 2022-12-31T08:38:38Z Modern forestry, which mainly consists of clear-cutting, is one of the most important factors influencing todayâs boreal forests. In Sweden, the breaking point for modern forestry is generally considered to be around 1950. Recently, our common knowledge of the implementation of clear-cutting in Sweden has increased, and new research indicates that clear-cutting systems were already applied before the 1950s. In this case study, we used aerial photographs from the 1940s to analyze the extent of contemporaneous clear-cuts and even-aged young forests in an area in northern Sweden. Our results show that almost 40% of the study area had already been clear-cut by the end of the 1940s, but also that clear-cutting had been applied to 10% of the forest land in the early 1900s. This implies that the historical development of forestry in northern Sweden is more complex than previously thought, and that certain proportions of the forest land were already second-generation forests in the 1950s. Our results have implications for the use of concepts such as âcontinuity forestâ, suggesting that this concept should employ a time frame of at least 100 years. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Silva Fennica 55 1 |
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Modern forestry, which mainly consists of clear-cutting, is one of the most important factors influencing todayâs boreal forests. In Sweden, the breaking point for modern forestry is generally considered to be around 1950. Recently, our common knowledge of the implementation of clear-cutting in Sweden has increased, and new research indicates that clear-cutting systems were already applied before the 1950s. In this case study, we used aerial photographs from the 1940s to analyze the extent of contemporaneous clear-cuts and even-aged young forests in an area in northern Sweden. Our results show that almost 40% of the study area had already been clear-cut by the end of the 1940s, but also that clear-cutting had been applied to 10% of the forest land in the early 1900s. This implies that the historical development of forestry in northern Sweden is more complex than previously thought, and that certain proportions of the forest land were already second-generation forests in the 1950s. Our results have implications for the use of concepts such as âcontinuity forestâ, suggesting that this concept should employ a time frame of at least 100 years. |
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Continuity forest or second-generation forest? Historic aerial photos provide evidence of early clear-cutting in northern Sweden |
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Continuity forest or second-generation forest? Historic aerial photos provide evidence of early clear-cutting in northern Sweden |
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