In the new forest management recommendations in Finland, one cultivation alternative for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is intensive cultivation in which the quality of a poor or mediocre pine stand is improved by carrying out an intensive, quality first thinning. This type of thinning leaves...

Currently, the total number of harwarders in industrial roundwood and energy wood harvesting in Finnish forests is slightly over one hundred. Metsäteho Oy conducted a follow-up study of harwarders in industrial roundwood harvesting in Finland, and also investigated the transfers of the...