Recent investigations by the Swedish Forest Agency identify high browsing pressure as the main reason for a recent decline in regeneration of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), one of the two main commercial species in Swedish forestry. The high browsing pressure is also having a negative impact on...
We saw black water snakes in the shallows on the edge of the lake; funnel web spiders (no, not the Aussie kind) with giant webs spread over low growing shrubs on the side of the track, fritillary butterflies feasting on knapweed and the odd elk and small herds of deer grazing on the ...
Wooden handcrafts are a typically Swedish cultural landmark; the most commonly used softwoods for that are Birch, Pine and Spruce. Rarely, they also apply harder to find and, therefore, more expensive Pearwood, which is thicker and more difficult to work with. Wooden kitchen utensils,...
nearly running over his camp. He saw five grouse, a second deer, and then a waddling porcupine. Rounding a bend, he faced down a large black bear. “It made the fastest Immelmann turn I’ve seen,” he wrote. Parsons kept busy recording the menagerie. But his reference to ...