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Metsähallitus
Metsähallitus (Swedish: Forststyrelsen, Northern Sami: Meahciráđđehus, "the (Finnish) Forest Administration") is a state-owned enterprise in Finland.
Its two main tasks are Parks & Wildlife Finland to manage most of the protected areas of Finland and Forestry to supply wood to the country's forest industry. Metsähallitus employs approximately 1,200 people. The company administers some 120,000 square kilometres (46,000 sq mi) of state-owned land and water areas, which is about 35% of Finland's total surface area. Its tasks are divided into business activities and public administration duties. Separate business units have been established for different activities.
Parks and Wildlife Finland consists of the units National Parks Finland and Wildlife Services Finland, which provide the public administration services of Metsähallitus.
Metsähallitus’ public administration duties involve, among others, managing nature conservation and hiking areas, promoting conservation and recreational use of State lands and waters and controlling hunting and fishing rights.
Land area 91,320 square kilometres (35,260 sq mi), water areas 34,140 square kilometres (13,180 sq mi), in total 125,460 square kilometres (48,440 sq mi).
In 1542 Gustav Vasa, the King of Sweden, which at that time also included Finland, proclaimed all uninhabited wilderness areas in his kingdom as belonging to God, the King and the Crown, thereby marking the beginning of state land ownership.
By the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish forests were already in full use. Until that time, forests were mainly used for slash-and-burn agriculture and to produce wood tar, an important export product in those days. Tar burning, however, began to dwindle in the beginning of the 19th century, while at the same time the needs of the sawmilling industry increased.
In the mid-19th century wood use was so widespread that officials were concerned about the disappearance of Finland's forests. In 1851 a strict forest law was passed, and a provisional national board for land surveying and forest management was established to monitor compliance and minister to the state's lands. The history of the national forest and park service, today's Metsähallitus, began in 1859 when Czar Alexander II signed a declaration on the founding of a forest management institution. Its area of operations covered state lands that were named crown parks, but monitoring private forestry, at least nominally, was also a part of the forest management institution's tasks.
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Metsähallitus
Metsähallitus (Swedish: Forststyrelsen, Northern Sami: Meahciráđđehus, "the (Finnish) Forest Administration") is a state-owned enterprise in Finland.
Its two main tasks are Parks & Wildlife Finland to manage most of the protected areas of Finland and Forestry to supply wood to the country's forest industry. Metsähallitus employs approximately 1,200 people. The company administers some 120,000 square kilometres (46,000 sq mi) of state-owned land and water areas, which is about 35% of Finland's total surface area. Its tasks are divided into business activities and public administration duties. Separate business units have been established for different activities.
Parks and Wildlife Finland consists of the units National Parks Finland and Wildlife Services Finland, which provide the public administration services of Metsähallitus.
Metsähallitus’ public administration duties involve, among others, managing nature conservation and hiking areas, promoting conservation and recreational use of State lands and waters and controlling hunting and fishing rights.
Land area 91,320 square kilometres (35,260 sq mi), water areas 34,140 square kilometres (13,180 sq mi), in total 125,460 square kilometres (48,440 sq mi).
In 1542 Gustav Vasa, the King of Sweden, which at that time also included Finland, proclaimed all uninhabited wilderness areas in his kingdom as belonging to God, the King and the Crown, thereby marking the beginning of state land ownership.
By the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish forests were already in full use. Until that time, forests were mainly used for slash-and-burn agriculture and to produce wood tar, an important export product in those days. Tar burning, however, began to dwindle in the beginning of the 19th century, while at the same time the needs of the sawmilling industry increased.
In the mid-19th century wood use was so widespread that officials were concerned about the disappearance of Finland's forests. In 1851 a strict forest law was passed, and a provisional national board for land surveying and forest management was established to monitor compliance and minister to the state's lands. The history of the national forest and park service, today's Metsähallitus, began in 1859 when Czar Alexander II signed a declaration on the founding of a forest management institution. Its area of operations covered state lands that were named crown parks, but monitoring private forestry, at least nominally, was also a part of the forest management institution's tasks.