So just to clear up a few facts. The whole area being cut is called "avohakkuu". It was forbidden by law to just cut a few trees here and there ("harsintahakku

So just to clear up a few facts. The whole area being cut is called "avohakkuu". It was forbidden by law to just cut a few trees here and there ("harsintahakkuu"). The thing that was feared was that people would cut the biggest and best trees and leave the worst ones there, making the forest worse as a whole. The laws have recently been changed. Now you can do partial cutting but in a certain way. There have been always laws about mandatory planting of saplings after doing cutting. The forestry sector is quite strictly controlled in Finland. Almost everything is, really. One can compare that to the mining sector for example, where laws are weirdly permissive. More (in Finnish) in https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsintahakkuu https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsintahakkuu This post didn't contain any opinions whether something is good or bad, just trying to give people basic information.