Clear-Felled Area in Ore Skogsrike

Ore Skogsrike is a Swedish forest landscape with unusually high concentration of high conservation value forests. Experts suggest that these forest areas are especially important to protect as reference areas and functional nature. The area was named a local pearl of nature by WWF in 2015.

The natural forest at Brännvinsberget, which is included in the Ore Skogsrike was logged by state owned forest company Sveaskog. The area was a habitat for a wide range of red-listed species. Before the logging local conservationists had also found over 40 different so-called indicator species in the area, that is, species that indicate that the forest has high conservation values.

Sveaskog is currently logging other high value areas of Ore skogsrike.