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by UncleOxidant 1564 days ago
I guess I'm surprised that Finland & Sweden lost so much tree cover. Is that due to Ikea?
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The vast majority of Swedish and Finish forests are managed for logging. All of the tree cover loss on this map in my area(except for some very recent that has just been logged/replanted) is today young forest which will be logged again in a few decades...
If you zoom in you see a patchwork of blue and pink, so it seems like just cycling through different areas for cutting and regrowth.