The main issue here has less to do with the forest being felled, and more to do with the incorrect management of things like wastewater and possible endangered habitats. These things are mostly an issue in areas that are zoned. Outside the zoned areas most of Finnish forest is actively managed for forestry and is cut clear and replanted periodically over 40-90 years depending on latitude and type of forest.
Google would’ve gotten the rights to cut if they just bothered to wait a bit and fill in the required paperwork. In most of Finland you just tell the government you’re going to cut down a forest and get working. Instead they chose to expedite the process and are now being criticized for that purpose.
Typically forests aren’t clear-cut to that extent at a single time, and the top soil remains in place. The scale has a danger of rain washing off the soil and adding nutrients to the nearby river and thus the baltic sea as well. Those should’ve been properly managed and planning that management was the part they skipped. The forest would’ve become timber and other products in due time anyway (which it now won’t since it’s not legally cut).
The main issue here has less to do with the forest being felled, and more to do with the incorrect management of things like wastewater and possible endangered habitats. These things are mostly an issue in areas that are zoned. Outside the zoned areas most of Finnish forest is actively managed for forestry and is cut clear and replanted periodically over 40-90 years depending on latitude and type of forest.
Google would’ve gotten the rights to cut if they just bothered to wait a bit and fill in the required paperwork. In most of Finland you just tell the government you’re going to cut down a forest and get working. Instead they chose to expedite the process and are now being criticized for that purpose.
Typically forests aren’t clear-cut to that extent at a single time, and the top soil remains in place. The scale has a danger of rain washing off the soil and adding nutrients to the nearby river and thus the baltic sea as well. Those should’ve been properly managed and planning that management was the part they skipped. The forest would’ve become timber and other products in due time anyway (which it now won’t since it’s not legally cut).