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Less Outdoor Recreation in Forests After Clear-Cutting – Especially Near Cities
5. March 2025

The fitness app Strava provides insight into how forest clear-cutting affects Norwegians’ recreation activities. Experts argue that the value from recreation services lost due to clear-cutting exceeds the value of timber provisioning services gained, particularly in peri-urban forests.

Old trees more important than pollarding for the diversity of lichen, fungi and mosses
14. December 2017

Pollarded trees have a higher diversity of lichen, fungi and mosses, but this may be due mainly to the high age of these trees

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